blog: expand PAYG to Pay as you go on first use

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: balegas

website/blog/posts/2026-03-24-electric-cloud-pricing.md

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 Electric Cloud now has self-serve pricing. Sign up, pick a plan, start building — no sales call needed.
 
-Pricing is usage-based: you pay for writes and retention. Data delivery — reads, fan-out, concurrent users — is free, unlimited, and always will be. PAYG waives bills under $5/month, giving you 5 million writes per month at zero cost. Most hobby and simple production apps will run for free forever.
+Pricing is usage-based: you pay for writes and retention. Data delivery — reads, fan-out, concurrent users — is free, unlimited, and always will be. Pay as you go (PAYG) waives bills under $5/month, giving you 5 million writes per month at zero cost. Most hobby and simple production apps will run for free forever.
 
 :::info Key links
 - [Sign up for Electric Cloud](https://dashboard.electric-sql.cloud)
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 ### The tiers
 
-- **PAYG** — $0/month. No commitment, no credit card required. Bills under $5/month waived.
+- **Pay as you go** — $0/month. No commitment, no credit card required. Bills under $5/month waived.
 - **Pro** — $249/month. No commitment. 10% usage discount. The monthly fee acts as prepaid usage credit — you're not paying twice. Unlocks advanced features including hosted sub-queries for Postgres Sync and premium support.
 - **Scale** — $1,999/month (6-month commitment). 20% usage discount. Same prepaid credit model. Direct access to founders and hands-on support to accelerate your time to market.