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Iglesia Bíblica Fundamental de la Gracia

Hi David, we spent real time inside ibfg.church before writing a single number. What we found is a congregation that meets six days a week, runs AWANA, camps, men's and women's conferences, and a Zoom prayer group at 9 a.m. on Tuesdays, all of it behind a GoDaddy page that still says © 2019 and shows the wrong day of the week on a phone. Below are three build options and three care plans. Every price is itemized, nothing is a lump sum, and the total updates live as you choose.

No commitment to review Bilingual ES + EN included You own everything Launch in 3-5 weeks
Before we quoted anything

What we found on ibfg.church

Every item below is something we verified ourselves on the live site, not a generic checklist. We're showing you the problems first because they are the actual reason to spend money, and because you should expect this level of homework from anyone bidding on this project.

The weekly schedule shows the wrong days on a phone
Each activity card carries three day labels for three screen sizes, and they don't match. Your Sunday 1:30 service is labeled Miércoles at one width. The Tuesday ANAS prayer group reads Domingo. Thursday's Bible study reads Viernes, then Miércoles. Saturday evangelism reads Viernes. A visitor checking on their phone can be sent on the wrong day.
Fixed in every option
A GoDaddy placeholder account is public
The account menu on the live site reads "Iniciaste sesión como: filler@godaddy.com". That is a leftover from the template that was never removed, and it is visible to everyone who opens the menu.
Fixed in every option
Registration sends people to a folding table
The Mujeres de Fe 2026 conference page currently reads "La inscripción en línea ha concluido. Acércate a la mesa de información y registro." The site has zero HTML forms on it, so every sign-up and every payment happens through Google Forms or in person.
Fixed in Events & Forms and above
The faces on the site are Getty stock photos
The images are served straight from Getty's stock library. Nobody on your home page actually attends IBFG. For a church whose whole appeal is that it is a real family in Fair Oaks, that is the most expensive thing on the page.
Solved by the Photo & Video Day add-on
There is no English on the site at all
The page is marked lang="es-US" with no English version and no language tags for Google. Any English-speaking spouse, neighbor, or second-generation kid who lands here gets nothing they can read, and Google never shows the site to an English search.
Fixed in every option
Google can't read your service times
There is no structured data on the site, none at all. That is the markup Google reads to show a church's service times, address, and events directly in search results. Right now a neighbor searching "iglesia hispana Fair Oaks" sees nothing useful about you.
Fixed in every option
No analytics, so nobody knows who visits
There is no Google Analytics and no Search Console tag anywhere on the page. You have no way to know whether the conference page got 30 visitors or 3,000, or which one brought people through the door.
Fixed in every option
Duplicated headings and a 2019 copyright
The church name is repeated five times in the header block and 1 Juan 4:19 renders six times in a row, both artifacts of the GoDaddy Website Builder responsive slider. The footer still reads © 2019, which tells a first-time visitor the church may not be active.
Fixed in every option

None of this is a criticism of whoever built the site in 2019, it did its job for six years. But the church has clearly outgrown it. What follows is what it would cost to build something that matches what IBFG actually is today.

Choose your build

Step 1 · pick one

Three tiers, each one a genuine custom build, never a stock template. Each tier contains everything in the one before it. Bilingual Spanish and English is included in all three, not billed as an extra. Selecting a tier updates the live total at the bottom of the page.

Foundation

A real website, built from scratch, that tells a first-time visitor who you are and when to show up. Everything broken today gets fixed.

Custom design from scratch, up to 10 pages, all your current content migrated
Bilingual with Spanish as the default and a one-tap English toggle, included at no cost
Mobile-first and WCAG 2.1 AA accessible, tested on real devices
Latest sermon video on the home page, pulled automatically from YouTube
Service times, map, parking and a "what to expect on your first visit" page
Three connected forms: contact routed by topic, connect card, prayer request
Submissions land in a dashboard you log into, exportable to CSV any time
Google Analytics 4, Search Console, local SEO and Church schema markup
Redirects from every existing URL so you keep the rankings you have
Training for up to 4 staff or volunteers, plus written documentation
One-time build
$2,000
Then a care plan from $99/mo
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Events & Forms

The Foundation site plus the thing you actually asked for: people register and pay for camps, conferences and classes online, and you get a roster you can export.

Everything in Foundation, plus:
Events calendar with a registration form tied to each individual event
Card payment priced per person or per family, whichever the event needs
Capacity limits, waitlist, reminder emails and automatic close on a deadline
Cash and checks taken at church land in the same roster as the online sign-ups
Duplicate last year's event, change dates and price, publish. No developer needed
Volunteer and small-group sign-ups with rosters you can view and export
Conditional logic, and each form notifies the right ministry lead automatically
Searchable sermon library, filtered by speaker, series, topic, date or passage
Auto-publishing: you upload to YouTube, it appears on the site, no re-entry
Up to 15 pages, and you can build simple forms yourself after launch
One-time build
$2,500
Then a care plan from $99/mo

Full Ministry Platform

Everything above plus giving, a member area, and a complete sermon archive. This is the version that keeps shepherding people Monday through Saturday.

Everything in Events & Forms, plus:
Online giving and recurring tithes, fully set up (a $250 add-on on other tiers)
Member area with ministry roles, so a leader edits only their own section
Sermon notes, slides and transcripts attached to each message
Audio-only podcast feed, so the preaching lands on Apple and Spotify
Blog and devotionals, plus an announcements board for the congregation
Live-stream embed for Sunday and Thursday services
Sync to what you already use: Planning Center, Breeze, Mailchimp or Sheets
Unlimited pages, unlimited admin users
One-time build
$3,000
Then a care plan from $99/mo
Side by side

The three tiers, compared

An honest look at what each tier gives you, so the trade-offs are clear before you choose. The highlighted column follows whichever tier you have selected above.

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Choose your care plan

Step 2 · pick one

Hosting, SSL, backups and security live inside the care plan, so one of these three is required to keep the site online. Every tier includes real hands-on hours and, critically, ongoing work on your forms and integrations, not just security patches. Tap any tier to see exactly what is inside it.

For a church where a volunteer handles most updates and you just need the site to stay online, current and safe.

  • 1 hour of hands-on work each month, used only when you ask: text and photo swaps, new dates, staff changes, broken links
  • Existing forms maintained and fixed at no charge, whenever one stops delivering
  • Hosting, SSL certificate and domain connection, included, billed by us, no separate hosting bill
  • Daily backups kept 30 days, with a one-click restore we perform free on request
  • All platform, CMS and security updates, plus 24/7 uptime monitoring
  • Monthly health check: every page, form and button tested on phone and desktop
  • Email support, answered within 2 business days. If the site is down, same business day
  • A one-page health report each quarter

New forms, new pages, redesigns or written content run at your $99/hr member rate, or step up to Active. Hours reset monthly and don't roll over.

Everything in Essentials, plus the hours and the form work to keep the site moving with your calendar. The right fit for a church running AWANA, camps and two conferences a year.

  • 2 hours each month, used only when you ask: new sections, seasonal banners, gallery and schedule updates
  • One new or rebuilt form every month, included, plus unlimited fixes to existing ones. Set up a camp registration in October and a conference in March at no extra charge
  • We post your events to the calendar and publish the week's sermon for you
  • Design tweaks: layout, spacing, colors, fonts and mobile fixes
  • Quarterly SEO and speed check: page titles, descriptions, image compression, Search Console and your Google Business Profile
  • Email and phone support, answered within 1 business day. Site down gets a response within 4 business hours
  • Sunday coverage 12:00–4:00 pm, on call around your 1:30 service, because a broken site on Sunday morning is not a Monday problem
  • A monthly report: traffic, form submissions, uptime and what we changed

The best value per hour of the three. Anything beyond your 2 hours runs at your $99/hr member rate. Hours reset monthly and don't roll over.

Everything in Active, plus the things you can't buy by the hour. We take the website off the leadership's plate entirely.

  • 3 hours each month for anything you want, including full page redesigns
  • Unlimited form and integration work, with no monthly cap and no per-form charge, ever
  • We write and edit the copy, in both Spanish and English
  • SEO and Core Web Vitals work every month, with a report of what changed and what it moved
  • Priority queue: same-business-day response, and a site that is down is handled within 2 hours, any day of the week
  • Sunday on-call 12:00–4:00 pm plus Thursday evening coverage for the 7 pm service
  • Two 30-minute planning calls each quarter with the leadership
  • One page redesigned or built from scratch every quarter, on top of your hours

The hands-off level: you send an email, we handle the rest. Anything beyond your 3 hours runs at your $99/hr member rate. Hours reset monthly and don't roll over.

No contract. Month to month, switch tiers or cancel any time with 30 days' notice. Prepay a year and the 12th month is free.

Why the monthly is what it is

Most church plans in this price range are hosting plus a login. You still do the work. Ours is the opposite: hosting is the cheap part, and what you're paying for is a person who will actually go change the thing you asked about.

Ongoing form work is included, not billed ad hoc. This was the single thing most likely to get quoted as an extra by everyone else.
Sunday matters. Your service is at 1:30 pm. A 9-to-5 Monday-through-Friday SLA is useless to a church, so Active and All-In are on call during services.
Hours are on request, with no minimum. Quiet month? You pay for hosting, security, monitoring and the guarantee that we pick up when you call.
Your rate drops to $99/hr from our standard $149/hr for anything beyond the included hours, for as long as you're on a plan.
Third-party costs you'd pay directly, disclosed up front: domain renewal roughly $20/yr to your registrar, and card processing at about 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction if you take payments or giving. That's the complete list. There are no plugin licenses or platform fees hiding behind this proposal.
Every term, in writing

The care plans, line by line

The details a committee needs to compare bids properly: hours, form work, response times, weekend coverage, reporting and cancellation terms, all stated rather than implied.

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Optional add-ons

Step 3 · toggle to include

None of these are required, and the proposal stands on its own without them. Toggle any on to add it to your live total. Online giving is already inside the Full Ministry Platform, so it switches on automatically at no charge when that tier is selected.

Photo & Video Day

Works with any tier

We spend a Sunday with you and shoot the real thing: the congregation, the worship team, AWANA, the building, the people who actually greet visitors at the door. Then every Getty stock photo comes off your website permanently.

40+ edited photos, plus a silent, seamlessly looping hero video for the home page
Building exterior, worship, children's ministry, fellowship and camp
You own the raw footage outright, forever, not just the edit
Signed photo releases handled for you
Choose the shoot length
One-time$450
Monthly$0

Online Giving & Tithes

Works with any tier

A giving page in Spanish and English where members can tithe once or set up a recurring gift from their phone. Designated funds for missions, camps or the building, with automatic year-end contribution statements.

One-time and recurring gifts, by card or ACH bank transfer
Designated funds: general, missions, camp, building
IRS-ready year-end contribution statements, generated automatically
Deposited straight into the church's own bank account
Givers may cover the processing fee if they choose
Setup$250
Monthly$0
Processor feeStripe nonprofit rate, paid to Stripe, never to us2.2% + $0.30 card · 0.8% ACH

Bilingual AI Assistant

Works with any tier

A chat assistant on your site that answers the questions the office gets over and over, in Spanish or English, at any hour: service times, where to park, what AWANA is, how to be baptized, when the next conference opens.

Trained on your ministries, schedule and statement of faith
Answers in whichever language the visitor writes in
Hands off to a real person for anything pastoral
Up to 500 conversations a month
Setup$150
Monthly$49/mo
Overage$0.05/chat after 500

AI Voice Receptionist

Works with any tier

A warm, human-sounding voice that answers (916) 535-0203 around the clock, in Spanish or English. It covers service times and directions, takes prayer requests and messages, and reaches a leader when something is urgent.

Answers 24/7, including during service and mid-week
Takes messages and prayer requests, emailed to you
Escalates urgent pastoral calls to a real phone
60 minutes a month included, keeps your existing number
Setup$199
Monthly$99/mo
Overage$0.30/min after 60
The two things that decide this

Video and connected forms, answered directly

These are the two areas where proposals usually go vague, so here are real answers with real numbers rather than a feature list.

Video

1Host on YouTube and embed, or host it natively?
Keep YouTube. Embed it. You already publish there and people already watch there. Native hosting would cost you roughly $20–$50/mo in bandwidth, lose you YouTube's search traffic, and buy you nothing except the removal of the "watch on YouTube" button. The one real trade-off is that YouTube may show a suggested-video panel at the end, which we suppress as far as their player allows.
2What does the video platform cost per month?
Nothing. YouTube hosting is free and stays in your own Google account. There is no platform fee billed by us and none billed through us. That is the entire reason we recommend it over Subsplash or Vimeo, where the same capability runs $50–$200/mo forever.
3How much can a non-technical volunteer handle?
All of it, and the honest answer is they don't have to do anything. Once we connect your channel, uploading to YouTube the way you already do is the entire workflow. The message appears on the site within minutes, with its title, date and thumbnail. Tagging it to a series or speaker so it's filterable takes about fifteen seconds in the dashboard, and on the Active and All-In care plans we do that for you.
4What does the searchable library add to the build?
It is the difference between Foundation and Events & Forms, and it is itemized at $300 in the breakdown below. Foundation gives you the latest message on the home page, auto-pulled. Events & Forms adds the full archive with filtering by speaker, series, topic, date and scripture passage. Sermon notes, transcripts and the podcast feed sit in Full Ministry Platform.

Connected forms

1Where does submission data live, and who can see it?
In a database on United States infrastructure, inside an account created in the church's name with David as owner. Access is by named login with per-person permissions, so the AWANA lead sees AWANA rosters and nothing else. We hold an administrator account only while we support you, and you can revoke it in one click at any time.
2If we leave, how do we take the data with us?
You export it yourself, any time, without asking us. Every form has a CSV export button, and on request we hand over a complete database dump plus the code repository. The account is already in your name, so there is nothing for us to release, and no exit fee. This is deliberate: a church should never be hostage to its web vendor.
3How do you handle prayer requests and minors?
Prayer requests get a private checkbox that routes them only to the pastor and the prayer team, never to the general dashboard, and they are never indexed or emailed in plain text to a shared inbox. Anything collecting a child's information, AWANA and camp registration especially, requires a parent or guardian's name and consent, is visible only to that ministry's leads, and is auto-purged on a schedule you set. We do not use any of it for marketing and we never sell or share it.
4Can we build and edit forms ourselves afterward?
Yes, and you won't pay us per change. Simple forms are drag-and-drop and covered in the training. For the complicated ones, conditional logic, payments, capacity and waitlists, Active includes one new or rebuilt form every month and All-In includes unlimited form work. Fixes to an existing form are free on every tier, including Essentials.
5Does it sync with the tools we already use?
Yes: Planning Center, Breeze, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Google Sheets and Airtable are all supported. Two-way sync with a church management system is part of Full Ministry Platform; one-way push to email lists and Sheets works on every tier. Tell us which you use and we'll confirm the exact behavior in writing before you sign anything.
Two questions worth a straight answer

The platform, and who processes the money

Both of these deserve a real recommendation with the reasoning shown, not a shrug. We would rather be told we're wrong on the specifics than be vague enough that nobody can check.

Can this be built on GoDaddy Website Builder?

No. Not this scope. Here is specifically what blocks it.

No multilingual system. There is no framework for a translated site, so you would hand-duplicate every page and Google still would not know the two versions are the same content. This is precisely why the site has no English on it today.
No real event registration. Its commerce tools cannot do per-family pricing, waitlists, automatic close on a deadline, or a roster that merges cash and card. That is the entire reason you are on Google Forms.
No form dashboard and no export. Forms email you a copy. There is nothing to log into, nothing to export to CSV, and no way to give a ministry lead access to only their own roster.
No YouTube sync. Every sermon gets pasted in by hand, forever.
You cannot take it with you. The site cannot be exported. If you ever move, you rebuild from nothing.
The current bugs are the builder's. The mismatched weekday labels and the five repeated headings come from its responsive slider. They are not something a careful editor can fix from inside the tool.

What we would use instead: a modern open stack with an open CMS, which is what makes the ownership and exit answers above possible. Annual platform, license and plugin fees on it come to $0. Hosting sits inside the care plan. Your only recurring third-party cost is the domain, about $20 a year.

Stripe or Square?

Stripe, for three concrete reasons, and the money never touches us.

The nonprofit rate. Stripe discounts eligible 501(c)(3) organizations to 2.2% + $0.30 on donations. Square has no nonprofit rate, so every tithe would run at its standard rate instead. You already knew this, and you are right.
ACH, which is the real saving. Stripe moves bank transfers at 0.8% capped at $5, so a $500 gift costs the church $4 instead of roughly $15 on a card. For recurring tithes that difference compounds every month. Square does not offer ACH for online giving at all.
Year-end statements. Your instinct here is correct: producing IRS-compliant contribution statements out of Square generally means manual CSV exports and a spreadsheet every January. Stripe's data model lets us generate them automatically, per donor, per fund.

On your eligibility question, you are right to be careful. The discounted rate is meant for organizations whose volume is genuinely tax-deductible donations, so pushing camp and conference fees, which are program revenue rather than gifts, through the same account can put it at risk. We would set up two accounts under one Stripe organization: giving on the nonprofit rate, event registration on the standard rate.

So do you end up reconciling two systems? No. One Stripe organization, one login, one dashboard, and both accounts settle into the church's same bank account. On the website side each event has one roster that merges card, ACH, cash and check, so the treasurer reads one list.

If leadership prefers Square anyway, we will build to it and say so plainly rather than pretend it cannot be done. We would just budget volunteer hours each January for the statements, and you would lose the ACH saving. Either way the integration cost is the same and it is already itemized: giving is the $250 line, event payments sit inside the Events & Forms tier.

The market, honestly

What everyone else charges

Every figure below comes from the provider's own published pricing, checked in August 2026. Where a provider does not publish a number we have said so and marked our estimate. We have also left in the two options that are genuinely cheaper than us, because you will find them anyway and you deserve to know exactly what you would be giving up.

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Three-year cost of ownership

Build + 36 months of support

The only number that actually compares bids fairly, because a cheap build with an expensive retainer is not a cheap website. These are custom-build providers, measured against our recommended tier.

Where we are not the cheapest, and why. Template platforms like Tithe.ly Sites ($119/mo, no build fee) and MyChurchWebsite ($49/mo after a $2,500–$3,400 build) come in under us over three years. They are real options and we won't pretend otherwise. What you give up is that the design is a template rather than yours, the CMS is the vendor's rather than open, the site cannot leave their platform, bilingual is not offered, and no hands-on hours are included, so every change is a volunteer's Saturday or an extra invoice. Our position is not that we are the cheapest line item. It is that we are the least expensive genuine custom build, and the only one on this page that includes a person who does the work.

Sources: published pricing pages for Verlua (Sacramento), Bozh Studio, MyChurchWebsite, BuildMyChurchWebsite, Tithe.ly Sites and Nucleus; Ekklesia 360 and general agency ranges as reported by REACHRIGHT and SteepleMate's 2026 church website cost surveys. Monthly figures for providers who publish a build price but no retainer are estimated at $150/mo, the midpoint of the $100–$300 industry range, and are flagged as estimates in the table.

No lump sums

Exactly what you're paying for

A single number makes it impossible to compare bids, so here is the build broken into its parts. This list follows whichever tier you selected above. Bilingual is shown at zero on purpose: it is included, not free-because-we-skipped-it.

Events & Forms

Selected tier
Build total $2,500

Costs you pay directly

Third-party charges that never pass through us. This is the complete list, not a sample.

Domain renewalPaid to your registrar, once a year~$20/yr
Card processingOnly if you take payments or giving2.9% + $0.30
Hosting, SSL & backupsInside your care plan, no separate billIncluded
Video platformYouTube stays free, in your own account$0
CMS & plugin licensesOpen stack, nothing to license$0
Total annual license fees ~$20/yr
Nothing dodged

Straight answers to the hard questions

These are the questions every church should put to every agency bidding on their website, including us. Ours are answered here in plain language so you can hold the other proposals to the same standard.

1Who owns the finished website: the design, the code, and the content?
IBFG does. All of it. On final payment, full copyright in the design files, the source code and the content transfers to the church in writing. We keep no license, no lien and no ongoing claim. We are not renting you a website.
2If we end the relationship, can we take the site to another host or agency?
Yes, and here is exactly what you receive: the complete Git repository with its full history, a database export including every form submission, all original design files, and the credentials to your own domain, analytics and YouTube connections. No exit fee, no data-release fee, no waiting period beyond the 30 days' notice on the care plan. Ask every other bidder this question and compare the answers carefully.
3Is any part of the site dependent on a proprietary system only you can maintain?
No. Not one piece of it. We build on a standard open stack that any competent web developer can pick up and continue. This is a real point of difference: several of the church platforms in the comparison above run on a CMS the vendor owns, which means the site literally cannot leave their servers. If you ever fire us, you should be able to hire the next person on Monday. That is by design.
4Who writes the copy: is content writing included, or do we supply all the text?
We rewrite and edit everything you have today, in both Spanish and English, and that is included in every tier. Your statement of faith, plan of salvation, ministry descriptions and the Buenas Noticias page get properly restructured and translated, not just pasted across. Brand-new original writing, a page that doesn't exist yet, is included on the All-In care plan, and otherwise runs at your $99/hr member rate or you can supply it.
5Who supplies photography?
You do, or we shoot it. We'll happily use photos the congregation has already taken, and we'll edit and crop them at no charge. If you'd rather have it done properly, the Photo & Video Day add-on is $450 and it is quoted separately above rather than buried in the build price. What we will not do is leave the Getty stock images on your site: strangers on your home page is the fastest way to look like a church that isn't really there.
6What happens if we're slow getting you content?
Nothing, and the price does not change. We start from the content already on ibfg.church, so the project never sits blocked waiting on the church. If a whole new section is missing at launch week we'll either ship without it and add it later, or move the date, your call. We do not bill for waiting and there is no rush fee. Churches are run by volunteers; a proposal that assumes otherwise isn't being honest with you.
7What is NOT included that churches commonly assume is?
The honest list, so nothing surprises you later: a native mobile app (we don't think you need one, and we'd rather tell you that than sell you one); live video production, meaning cameras, switchers and an operator, we embed the stream but we don't run the booth; translating or subtitling your sermon videos; printed materials; domain renewal and card processing fees, both listed above; and writing new doctrinal content, your statement of faith is yours, we format and translate it but we don't author theology.
8Do you offer nonprofit pricing?
What you're looking at is the nonprofit price. Our standard commercial rate for this scope runs $3,500–$5,000, and the comparison above shows what Sacramento agencies charge a business for less work. The church rate is what is quoted on this page. It also continues after launch: your rate for extra work is $99/hr against our standard $149/hr, for as long as you're on a care plan.
9How many revision rounds are included, and what does an extra one cost?
Three full rounds on the design, plus unlimited small tweaks right through to launch. Colors, spacing, wording, swapping an image, moving a section: we don't count those and we don't bill them. The only thing that costs extra is a complete structural redesign after you've already signed off on a direction, which is $250. Nothing about revisions is metered against your care-plan hours before launch.
10What does the handoff and training actually look like?
Two live sessions, both recorded so future volunteers can watch them: one for whoever edits the site day to day, one for ministry leads who only need to manage their own events and rosters. You also get written step-by-step documentation in Spanish and English. Then there is a 30-day post-launch window where we fix anything, free, no hours deducted, because the first month is when you find the things nobody thought of. After that the care plan takes over.
11Is setting up each year's events included in the care plan, or billed per event?
Included, and never billed per event. Active covers one new or rebuilt form every month, which comfortably absorbs a family camp and two conferences a year. All-In is unlimited. On Essentials you would either duplicate last year's event yourself, which is exactly what we build the registration system to allow, or hand it to us at your $99/hr member rate. Nobody at any tier gets an invoice that says “conference setup fee”.
From yes to live

Timeline and what we need from you

Three to five weeks from deposit to launch, depending on the tier. The only thing that moves this date is waiting on access we can't get ourselves.

What we need from you

Your logo in its original file, if it still exists
Access to the YouTube channel, so sermons publish automatically
The domain registrar login, or someone who can point it for us
A list of ministries and who leads each one, for form routing
A Google account we can attach Analytics and Search Console to
One decision-maker who can approve the design

That's the whole list. We do not need a content audit, a brand workshop or a committee sign-off process. If the church can hand over these six things in the first week, the timeline holds.

Your investment, in three parts

One-Time Build

Total to build $2,500

Monthly Recurring

Monthly total $149/mo

Pay-per-use

Only billed if and when used. Most months this stays at $0.

Live total
$2,500 + $149/mo
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