One credit buys an hour of engineering work and costs $34.90 — one tenth of your monthly plan. The agent writes the plan and puts a credit count on it; nothing starts until you approve that number.
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The agent answering your team in Slack, the monitoring catching things before they bite, and the audit findings that start it all — the three pieces you pay for, in under a minute.
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Most teams under thirty people do not need a DevOps engineer on payroll. They need someone watching the account continuously, and someone to actually do the work on the handful of days a quarter when something has to change. Those are two different things, so they are priced as two different things: a plan that watches — the agent and the monitoring, $349 a month — and implementation credits when there is something to do.
One credit buys one hour of engineering work and costs $34.90. That number is always one tenth of your monthly plan, it is the same for every subscriber, and it does not move because you called on a Friday afternoon. Credits are not sold on their own — they exist for people already running the agent, for a reason worth being straight about: the agent is what makes them cheap.
Because it is not the same hour. A DevOps engineer you hire spends a large part of the week working out what to do — reading the account, reconstructing history, deciding on an approach. The agent has already done that and written it down. What is left is execution against a written plan, which is genuinely junior-level work, so it is genuinely priced as junior work.
That is also the honest answer to "why can't I just buy the credits?". Without the agent there is no plan, without the plan someone has to do the investigating, and then the price would have to be the $140 one. The subscription is not a gate for the sake of a gate — it is the thing that makes the number possible.
One tenth of your monthly plan · Available to subscribers only · Credits quoted in writing before you approve · No retainer, no minimum, no charge until you say yes · Anything over 8 credits comes back as a fixed quote instead
Start — $349/mo →No. The subscription is the agent and the monitoring. Credits are only ever charged when you have read a plan and approved the number on it — most months, for most clients, that number is zero.
There is nothing to expire: you are not buying a block up front. Credits are quoted per piece of work and billed after it is done, so there is no balance sitting there losing value.
You see the plan, and the plan says what it is doing and why. Anything the agent scopes above eight credits stops being credits and comes back to you as a fixed-price quote from me instead — so there is no incentive to let an estimate grow.
An agency sells you a block of capacity every month whether you use it or not, and its incentive is to grow the engagement. Here the capacity costs $0 until you approve a specific piece of work with a specific number of credits on it.
An engineer from itsdavidg.co, working to the written plan. On anything touching production or security, I review it before it goes in. The agent stays read-only unless a specific plan needs otherwise, and you approve that too.
Deepest on AWS — 100+ accounts audited, $2M+ in cloud spend optimized — and the backend ecosystem around it. If your problem is outside what I do well, you will be told that on the free call rather than sold credits for it.
Four things keep coming up when clients describe what the agent, the monitoring and the audit did to their AWS account: the bill, the speed, the security holes, and finally being able to see what is running.
“We brought in the AWS DevOps agent expecting basic automation help, but the real win was our AWS bill — it dropped noticeably within the first couple of months without us sacrificing performance.”
“Our infrastructure just runs better now. Response times improved across the board and we stopped getting paged for issues that used to eat up our nights.”
“The security review alone was worth it. They found gaps in our AWS setup we didn’t know existed and helped us close them fast.”
“For the first time, we actually have a clear picture of our AWS architecture. It used to feel like a black box — now we know exactly what’s running and why.”
“Honestly the biggest value was visibility. We went from guessing what was happening in our environment to having a full, clear view of everything.”
“Cost savings were immediate and kept compounding. What impressed us most was that nothing broke in the process.”
One plan at $349/mo: the agent, the AWS monitoring, and the $599 security audit included. You get payment instructions by email in seconds — no call, no contract, no charge before the work is delivered.
Start — $349/mo →Read-only AWS access · Cancel anytime · Built by a senior AWS engineer
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