## 2.4 Trial Accounts and Free Tier
Explore the different options for trying out SAP BTP.
## Trial Account or Free Tier Offering: When to Use Which?
Before setting up your account, you need to decide which free offering for SAP BTP is suitable for your needs:
- Pay-As-You-Go or CPEA accounts with free tier service plans are open to customers, partners, and let you try out SAP BTP in a per service defined time span for free. These account types enable you to test your scenarios and generally offer the option to upgrade to paid service plans. These accounts also allow you to store data long-term and move projects to production. You also get access to our community, including free technical resources such as tutorials and blog posts. For more information, see Enterprise Accounts [page 101] and Using Free Service Plans [page 108].
##  Note
When using Kyma, the free plan is available only once in a global account for up to 30 days. For more information, see Available Plans in the Kyma Environment.
You can self-register for an enterprise account with free tier service plans. For more information, see Get an Account on SAP BTP to Try Out Free Tier Service Plans .
##  Note
Only community support is available for free tier service plans and these are not subject to SLAs.
##  Note
The option to upgrade from free tier service plans to paid service plans is not yet available for all services and runtimes, such as Kyma. See Using Free Service Plans to read more about upgrading from free tier service plans to paid service plans.
- A trial account lets you try out SAP BTP for free for 90 days. The services provided for the trial account allow restricted use of the platform resources and services. Access is open to everyone. Trial accounts are intended for personal exploration, your own non-productive testing, and evaluation of the services in accordance with SAP BTP trial terms and conditions . A SAP BTP trial account must not be used for production use or team development. You are not permitted to use the trial account in any productive or commercial manner.
You can self-register for a trial account. For more information on how to do that, see Get a Free Account on SAP BTP Trial
## Free Tier and Always Free Tags in the SAP Discovery Center
In the SAP Discovery Center service catalog overview , some services display the tag Free Tier , which indicates the service is offering a free tier service plan. Some services display the tag Always Free , which
indicates the service is offering a service plan that comes free of additional charges, as it is already included in your overall SAP BTP contract. You can use the filter function of the SAP Discovery Center to filter for services that offer Free Tier and Always Free plans. The Always Free service plans include the following note in their service plan description: "This service plan is included in the overall SAP Business Technology Platform contract".
##  Note
Always Free service plans might not be available in all regions or for all providers.
## Trial Lifecycle
- Use your SAP BTP trial account: Familiarize yourself with the Trial Scope [page 100] or try out one of our Starter Scenarios on the Tutorial Navigator .
- Extend your SAP BTP trial account in intervals:
- Your 90-day trial period is divided in intervals. If you sign in to your trial account regularly, the intervals are extended automatically for you by up to 30 days or until your overall 90-day trial is finished.
- If you don't sign in to your trial account for 30 days or more, your account will be suspended. All suspended accounts will be deleted and you won't be able to use applications or services.
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· Delete your SAP BTP trial account: After 90 days, your trial account is automatically deleted. But if you want to proactively delete your SAP BTP trial account, you can navigate to the global accounts scope and select the Account Explorer page, then click the Delete Trial Account button.
- If you want to continue to use an SAP BTP trial account after deletion, you need to set up a new account.
- If you want to explore SAP BTP without time limit, create an enterprise account with free tier service plans allowing you to test your scenarios. See: Get an Account on SAP BTP to Try Out Free Tier Service Plans .
##  Caution
Environments enabled on your trial account may not be valid for your whole trial period. To learn about the validity period for the Kyma environment, see About the Trial Account [page 230].
## Trial Scope
- A trial account enables you to explore the basic functionality of SAP BTP.
- SAP BTP trial accounts are available in several regions. For more information, see Regions [page 17].
- You can create directories in your trial account. For more information, see Managing Directories Using the Cockpit [page 2241]
- You can use productive and beta services. To consume beta services, you must enable the subaccount for beta features during the subaccount creation or when you edit the subaccount details.
- You can manage platform users by assigning them role collections. For more information, see Working with Role Collections.
- A trial account includes 4 GB of memory for applications.
- You can use 8 GB of instance memory.
- There are 10 total routes and 40 total services available.
- You can use 2 configured on-premise systems with the Cloud connector.
- There's no service level agreement with regards to the availability of the platform.
- You can use HDI containers in a shared SAP HANA database (only available on cf-us10).
- For cleanup purposes, applications stop automatically on a daily basis. You need to manually restart them when needed.
##  Note
Applications are stopped at midnight (or some time later depending on server load) relative to the region in which you created your trial account. If you're working in a time zone that is far from the region where your trial account was created, then your applications may stop during business hours.
- You can have a trial tenant of SAP Cloud identity Services, see Get Your Tenant.
## Related Information
Getting Started with a Trial Account in the Cloud Foundry Environment [page 150] Getting Started with a Trial Account in the Kyma Environment [page 229]