Build minutes are a separate balance inside Brimble billing.
Your available build minutes come from two sources:
- The minutes included with your current plan for the active billing cycle.
- Extra purchased build minutes that are added on top.
Included minutes vs purchased minutes
Brimble stores purchased build minutes separately from your plan’s included allowance.
That matters because:
- Included minutes reset with the billing cycle.
- Purchased minutes carry forward until you use them.
On paid subscriptions, the reset date follows the subscription’s billing cycle. On free accounts, build minutes reset on Brimble’s monthly free-user schedule.
How top-ups work
Build-minute top-ups are one-off purchases.
Today these rules apply:
- The minimum purchase amount is $5.
- A successful top-up credits minutes immediately.
- The credited minutes are added both to your current visible balance and to your stored extra-minute balance for future cycles.
By default, Brimble credits 288 build minutes per $1. At that rate:
$5 adds 1,440 minutes$10 adds 2,880 minutes
What happens at renewal
When a paid subscription renews successfully, Brimble resets the build-minute balance for the new cycle to:
This prevents purchased top-ups from being wiped out when the monthly allowance refreshes.
What happens when you change plan
When you move between personal plans, Brimble adjusts your included build-minute baseline to match the new plan.
The extra purchased minutes stay attached to your account. They are not discarded during an upgrade, downgrade, or trial start.
The same idea applies to Team workspaces: the team workspace keeps its own build-minute balance, and team top-ups are credited to that team workspace rather than to your personal workspace.
When build minutes can still be unavailable
Running out of build minutes is not the only reason builds can stop.
Builds can also be disabled when:
- Your subscription becomes unpaid.
- A spending limit reaches its configured pause threshold.
If that happens, adding more build minutes alone may not restore builds. You may also need to pay the open invoice or raise the spending limit.
Build-minute purchases are blocked in one important case: if you try to buy build minutes for a subscription that is already marked unpaid, Brimble rejects the purchase until the open invoice is settled.
This prevents top-ups from being used as a workaround for a subscription debt state.
Where build minutes fit in billing
Build minutes sit alongside, not inside, your metered infrastructure charges.
That means:
- Your plan subscription is still billed on its normal cycle.
- Usage-based charges such as CPU, memory, bandwidth, and storage still appear in the billing estimate.
- Build-minute top-ups are separate one-off transactions.
Next steps
- How billing works, the full billing lifecycle.
- Wallet, prepaid credit for plans and purchases.
- Referrals, domain coupons and invoice discounts from referrals.
- Builds, what runs during a build.
Last modified on October 16, 2026
