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Updated October 19, 2026 Pausing stops every instance of an app and stops billing for them. Nothing is deleted: the code, settings, environment variables, deploy history and address all stay. Resume starts the app again with the scaling it had.

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Before you start

  • A live app. One-off jobs have nothing to pause: they run only when you start them.

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Pause an app

Open the app and click Pause at the top of the page. You can also go to Settings, Danger zone, Pause service and click Pause.
TODO: App page header with the Pause button
While the app is paused:
  • Websites and private services stop answering. Their address comes back when you resume.
  • Background workers stop working.
  • Cron jobs stop their schedule. A run missed while paused is skipped, not started when you resume.
  • Billing for the app’s instances stops.
  • The app still counts toward your account’s limit of 20 instances.
To pause several apps at once, select them in the Apps list and click Pause.

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Resume an app

Open the app and click Resume, or use Settings, Danger zone, Resume service. The app starts again with its scaling, and billing starts again with it.
  • Environment variables you changed while it was paused apply when it resumes.
  • An app that never went live before you paused it cannot resume: it goes back to its error state, and you deploy it again.

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Apps paused by the spend cap

When a spend cap set to Pause my apps is reached, Raff pauses your pay-as-you-go apps. Their Overview says Paused by the monthly spend cap, and resuming them is refused while the cap still applies. Raise the cap or turn it off: the apps start again within seconds.

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Do it from your tools

$APP_ID is the app’s ID from List app services or raff apps list. $RAFF_API_KEY is an API key. API: Pause app service, Resume app service
CLI

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Next steps

Set an Apps spend cap

Pause apps on their own at a monthly limit.

Delete an app

Remove an app you no longer need.
Last modified on October 19, 2026