---
title: Orgs, usage and billing
description: Your org owns your sandboxes, templates, keys and vault; see its quotas, current use, per-second usage and estimated cost.
---

Everything in pols belongs to an org: sandboxes, templates, API keys, SSH keys and the vault. An API key acts on its own org only, and names of sandboxes and templates are unique within an org.

## Accounts and orgs

You sign up at [https://my.pols.so/signup](https://my.pols.so/signup) with your email address; there is no password. Each address can have one account, and every new account gets an org of its own with the [default quotas](/getting-started/limits/#quotas).

New accounts are approved by hand. Until yours is approved you can log in, but not create API keys; you get an email once it is approved.

Your [account page](https://my.pols.so/account) shows your org's API keys, its vault, its sandboxes with their current CPU, memory and disk use, and its usage against its quotas.

## Your org from the CLI

```sh
pols org      # the org, its quotas and what it uses right now
pols usage    # per-second usage and estimated cost, this calendar month
pols usage --from 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z --to 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z
pols stats    # CPU, memory and disk use of the running sandboxes
```

The same data is in the API: `GET /v1/org`, `GET /v1/usage` and `GET /v1/org/stats`.

## Usage and billing

pols meters running time per second. Every time a sandbox starts or stops, the change is recorded together with the status change, so the record of running intervals is exact. `pols usage` adds them up per size and per sandbox and prices them at the [list prices](/concepts/machine/#sizes):

- Only running time counts. Stopped sandboxes, templates and the disks behind them are not billed.
- Usage defaults to the current calendar month in UTC; `--from` and `--to` take RFC 3339 times.
- The cost shown is an estimate at list prices. During early access we invoice usage by hand.

## Notices

At 80 percent of the monthly sandbox-hours, the org's users get an email. At 100 percent, the org's running sandboxes are stopped until the next month or until the quota is raised; see [Limits and quotas](/getting-started/limits/#the-monthly-hours-are-a-hard-limit).