Understanding billing and usage
The next sections that will be covered in Account settings are Billing and Usage. These two sections go hand in hand. Billing provides information about the type of plan that the account is using, and the Usage section shows how much of the quota of the account's plan remain from the previous month.
There are four metrics that determine the usage of a plan:
- Seats: This is the limit of how many members will be in the account.
- Client-side MAUs: This is the limit of how many Monthly Active Users (MAUs) there will be from the client-side SDK. This forms part of the plan as the evaluation is done on LaunchDarkly's hardware, and they incur this cost and that of the bandwidth requirements. When using server-side SDKs, the evaluation is done by your application on your own hardware, so you are paying that cost. The fact that the usage of the client-side SDKs can have an impact on what plan is needed and how much LaunchDarkly will cost...
