#Expo pricing vs Cresc for React Native OTA

Short answer: Expo Starter and Cresc Standard both start at $19/month, but Cresc becomes much cheaper at production scale and is easier to budget because Cresc does not layer monthly active user and bandwidth overages on top of the base plan.

Pricing snapshot checked against Expo official pricing on March 23, 2026.

#Expo pricing snapshot

Expo's official usage-based pricing for EAS Update adds:

• $0.005 per additional updated user
• $0.10 per additional GiB of global edge bandwidth

#Cresc pricing snapshot

#What this means in practice

• At the starter tier, Cresc is not more expensive than Expo Starter.
• At the production tier, Cresc Pro at $99/mo is below Expo Production at $199/mo.
• At the enterprise tier, Cresc Ultra at $1,699/mo is below Expo Enterprise starting at $1,999/mo.
• Cresc pricing scales in fixed jumps, so you know the plan ceiling up front.
• Expo pricing can expand with both updated-user count and bandwidth after you cross plan limits.

#Expo's own usage example

Expo's official billing documentation gives this example for the Starter plan:

• 20 updates
• 5 MiB each
• 10,000 updated users

Their documented extra usage comes to $95.31 for that month. Adding the Starter subscription itself means the all-in monthly cost would be $114.31. That total is an inference from the official example plus the public Starter plan fee.

#Why Cresc gets cheaper as scale grows

Inside Cresc itself, the effective price per 1M daily queries drops sharply as the plan grows:

That is the economic story worth emphasizing: same low entry point, but better cost curve once your release traffic becomes real.

#Which pricing model is easier to budget?

• Choose Expo if you are already deep into Expo services and are comfortable budgeting around MAU plus bandwidth overages.
• Choose Cresc if you want OTA pricing to stay closer to a fixed monthly infrastructure cost.

#Related pages

• Expo Updates vs Cresc
• Pricing
• CodePush alternative