Billing & charges
Can I set a spending cap?
There's no dedicated spending-cap feature, but turning off Automatic top-up (under Billing → Top-up ) achieves the same thing: once your balance ru...
Does deployment or setup time count as billable?
Billing starts the moment you click Deploy . If a deployment fails, that charge is refunded.
How do I stop all charges but keep my data?
Delete the instance, but leave your volumes unselected in the delete dialog so they are kept (nothing is selected by default). Compute charges stop ...
My balance is dropping even though I'm not running anything. Why?
The usual cause is storage you've forgotten about . Block volumes bill for as long as they exist, attached or not, and deleting an instance does not ...
Why was I billed for more time than I actually used?
Billing runs in 10-minute increments , charged slightly in advance while the instance runs. If you only use part of an increment, the unused portion ...
Why am I still charged when my instance is shut down?
Shutting an instance down powers off the operating system, but the GPU stays reserved for you , so billing continues at the full hourly rate, and any...