Compute & Storage Charges

Managed Compute is metered—you pay for the compute time and storage you actually use, offset by your plan's included allowance. This page explains the model and how to read your usage in the app.

What's billed

There are two separate meters:

• Compute — billed per minute while an instance is Running, at a rate that depends on the machine type. Larger tiers cost more per minute. A Stopped instance bills no compute.

• Storage — billed for the data volume (your persistent home directory), per GB over time. Storage bills continuously, even while the instance is stopped, because your files are still being kept. It pauses only while an instance is pending deletion.

Stopping saves compute, not storage. Stop an instance to stop paying for compute. To stop paying for storage too, you have to delete the instance—which removes its data. There's no way to keep your files at zero cost.

Your included allowance

Most plans include a monthly compute allowance—a credit that offsets your compute and storage usage each billing period. Usage is drawn down against the allowance first; you're only billed for what exceeds it.

• The allowance refreshes each billing period and does not roll over.

• What happens when you exceed it depends on your subscription:

  • Overages enabled — additional usage is billed at standard rates.

  • Overages disabled — the allowance caps compute: once it's used up, new instances won't launch and running ones are stopped, so you don't keep racking up compute charges.

The overages cap applies to compute, not storage. Stopping an instance ends its compute charges but not its storage charges—the data volume keeps billing while stopped. With overages off, storage on your existing volumes can still carry your usage past the included allowance and result in a charge. The only way to stop storage charges is to delete the instance, which removes its data. Delete instances you no longer need to avoid ongoing storage costs.

Low-allowance check at launch

If you're still within your allowance but don't have much runtime left at the selected tier, launching or starting an instance asks you to confirm before proceeding—so you're never surprised by an instance that stops shortly after it starts.

Reading your usage

The Compute Usage card—available at the instance, workspace, and organization level—shows where you stand this period:

• Compute usage — what your running time has cost so far.

• Storage usage — what your data volumes have cost (shown in GB·hr / GB·mo).

• Included credit — your allowance, applied as a credit.

• Billed — the net amount you'll be charged after the credit.

• A progress bar against your allowance, with a status banner:

  • Within the included compute allowance.

  • Approaching the included compute allowance. (at 80%)

  • You've used your included allowance. Additional usage is billed at standard rates… (overages enabled)

  • Over the included allowance by … (overages disabled)

Billable intervals

For a line-by-line breakdown, open Billable usage… from an instance's menu, or use the Show billable intervals expander on the usage card. You'll see:

• A Compute table — each running interval with its instance, start/end, tier, billed minutes, rate, and cost. An interval that's still open shows a running badge.

• A Storage table — each data volume's size, billed GB-hours, rate, and cost.

This is the authoritative record of what you're being charged and why.

Getting help

Questions about a charge or your allowance? Email [e-mail].