Limits
Your organization’s plan sets how many sandboxes you can run and for how long. This page lists those limits, the messages you see when you reach one, and the per-sandbox time limits. The console’s Limits page shows your plan’s numbers and, where available, your current usage. Open it from the left sidebar under Manage at droneship.run/console.
Per plan
Section titled “Per plan”| Limit | Free | Trial | Pro | Enterprise | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concurrent sandboxes | 5 | 5 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Enforced at launch |
| Sandbox hours per month | 30 | 30 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Enforced at launch |
| Projects per organization | 1 | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Enforced: creating one more project fails |
| Users per project | 1 | 15 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Shown in the console; not checked when a member is added |
Droneship checks the two sandbox limits when you launch a sandbox, which covers droneship run, droneship run -p, droneship resume and restoring a task.
- Concurrent sandboxes counts your organization’s running sandboxes, your teammates’ included: interactive sessions and running prompt runs. Stopped sandboxes and saved workspaces don’t count.
- Sandbox hours per month adds up sandbox running time in your project since the first of the month (UTC). On Free that’s your whole organization, because Free has one project. It counts sandboxes that already stopped, plus the time so far of the ones still running. The count starts again on the first.
When you reach a limit, sandboxes that are already running keep running. The next launch is refused.
At a limit
Section titled “At a limit”The launch fails with one of these messages. On Trial, the message says Trial instead of Free.
Free plan limit reached: 5 concurrent sandboxes. Contact sales@highflame.com to switch to Pro.Free plan limit reached: 30 sandbox hours this month. Contact sales@highflame.com to switch to Pro.To launch now, stop a sandbox you no longer need (droneship list, then droneship kill <id>), or wait for the hours to reset on the first of the month. Troubleshooting has the details.
Change plans
Section titled “Change plans”To switch to Pro, contact sales@highflame.com. Billing isn’t in the console yet.
Per sandbox
Section titled “Per sandbox”These come from the flags on droneship run, not from your plan.
| Limit | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
Idle stop (--idle), with nobody connected |
30m | Up to 24h; 0 turns it off |
Hard cap (--timeout) |
8h | Up to 24h |
| Prompt run kept after it stops | 7 days | Fixed |
A saved workspace has no set retention. It lasts until you run droneship workspace delete or launch with --fresh. See Auto-stop and Workspaces.
- The console: the Usage, Limits and Billing pages.
- Auto-stop: how idle and hard limits work.
- FAQ: cost and other common questions.