# Deployment Failures

- **Failed Deploy**: A failed deploy now indicates who is responsible (your app, your account, or Ample), including a diagnosis, log evidence, and a suggested fix, such as a missing environment variable.

- **Ample Failures**: When a failure is on Ample's side, the deploy waits while Ample fixes it and then continues. If it still fails, the error links to an incident.

- **CLI Command**: `ample auth claim --email` (MCP: ample_auth_claim) sends an email to the person with a link to claim the account. The sign-in page also offers to claim an unclaimed account.

# Pricing Details

- **Budget Management**: Apps that exceed their budget are now paused, with their data retained and not deleted. They respond with a 503 budget_exceeded message until the account is back under budget.

- **CLI Plan Detection**: `ample plan` detects standard-library Python apps and outlines an empty plan. Rerunning `ample deploy` while a deploy is in progress will wait for it instead of failing.

- **File Management**: Files located under node_modules, vendor, .venv, target, and similar folders no longer determine an app's runtime.

- **Start Script Preservation**: An app's own start.sh will not be overwritten. Each runtime with an install or build step receives an 8 GiB disk, and refused boots will now report the reason.

# Pricing Page Update

- The pricing page now features a Free plan and a Custom plan for larger needs.

## Changelog Updates

- **[October 9, 2026: Browser sign-in for web agents, and long-running server commands](/content/changelog/2026-10-09/index.html)**  
- **[September 25, 2026: Server resize, A2A support, and the MCP 2026-07-28 spec](/content/changelog/2026-09-25/index.html)**