Setting up crowdsec for pfsense and npmplus

Hello, I’ve been using CrowdSec with the npmplus Docker image for about a year now, and just set up a pfSense box. npmplus is running on a separate physical machine from my pfSense. Is there any way to set up both without paying 59$ a month for a second slot? I tried just having the npmplus be the LAPI and having the pfSense box send the logs to the npmplus parser, but whenever I do that, it requires me to add a second slot to my engine. Not saying I don’t want to support CrowdSec in the amazing things they are doing. I guess a better question is, would it be better that I abandon Crowdsec in npmplus and only have Crowdsec in my pfSense box, since that is directly connected to my modem and is the first thing the internet sees coming in before it even hits my reverse proxy?