Cloud server payment model and pricing
Balance
You can pay for cloud server resources with different types of funds: basic funds or bonuses.
Before paying, top up your balance.
Payment model
Cloud servers use a pay-as-you-go payment model. Charges for the previous hour of use of cloud server resources and consumed external traffic are deducted from the balance every hour, if it reaches the 3 TB free traffic limit for all account projects.
Payment for cloud server resources is calculated by project. Each project contains a group of resources: the number of cores, disk size, and others.
The cost of a group of resources is updated every astronomical hour.
Payment for resource consumption depends on the resource type (quota-based or non-quota-based). Read more about quota-based and non-quota-based resources in the Paid Resources table.
For quota-based resources, the maximum consumption during the hour is taken into account.
For example, at 13:25, two cloud servers are created: one with 2 vCPU, the second with 4 vCPU. The second server is deleted at 13:40. The bill for the 13:00–14:00 hour will factor in the consumption of 6 vCPU. For the 14:00–15:00 hour, only 2 vCPU consumption will be factored in, provided no other cloud servers were created.
For non-quota resources, such as traffic or API requests, the sum of the consumed resource is taken into account.
For example, five cloud servers with public network access are running in a project. During the 13:00–14:00 hour, each server consumed 2 GB of external traffic, and the monthly free traffic quota was exhausted. The bill for the 13:00–14:00 hour will factor in 10 GB of traffic.
If the number of resources changes, for example, the number of cores or disk size, the payment for the resource will change immediately.
For example, a cloud server's configuration is changed at 13:25 from 2 vCPU to 4 vCPU. For the 13:00–14:00 hour, you will be charged for 4 vCPU.
Charges for resources continue to accrue when a server is turned off or suspended, as resources are reserved for it. When a server is frozen, vCPU, RAM, and GPU are not charged, while other resources remain payable.
For example, you have created a cloud server with these resources: vCPU, RAM, and a Universal disk. If you turn off or pause the cloud server, the resources will continue to be billed every hour.
When transferring a project to another account, the consumption of project resources for the hour in which the transfer is completed will be accounted for in the transferring account. No charges will be debited from the receiving account for this hour.
For example, a project was transferred at 12:50. The consumption of project resources for the 12:00–13:00 hour will be transferred to the receiving account. The transferring project account will only account for resource consumption before 12:00.
Paid resources
For more details about all cloud server resources, see the Servercore products that support projects section in the General Information on Projects instructions.
Resource statuses that are factored into billing
All created resources are billed, even if they are turned off and are in the following statuses:
Blocking resources if there are insufficient funds on the balance
If there are insufficient funds on the balance at the time of the charge, all cloud server resources will be automatically blocked — while continuing to accrue charges.
To restore access to the resources, you need to top up your balance by the amount of the debt:
- for cloud servers with GPU — within 12 hours after blocking;
- for other cloud servers — within 14 days after blocking.
If you do not top up your balance to cover the debt within the allotted time after blocking, the cloud server and its resources will be deleted. If there is a local disk among the resources, the data on it will also be deleted. Projects are not deleted in this process.
To ensure you do not miss balance top-ups, you can configure balance status notifications.
External traffic
External traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic between a public address of a Cloud Platform resource and a public address on the Internet. Other traffic is considered internal.
All projects within a single cloud platform account are provided with 3 TB of free external traffic each month. Once the 3 TB of free external traffic is exhausted, traffic will be billed like other cloud platform resources. This means the balance will be charged every hour for the traffic consumed in the previous hour. The cost of traffic will be added to the total cost of the resource group within the project.
By default, basic Servercore DDoS protection is enabled for the Cloud Platform. Malicious filtered DDoS traffic is not factored into consumption and is not charged.
Internal traffic
Internal traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic between the public address of a Cloud Platform resource and the public address of another Servercore service, such as a Dedicated Server.
Traffic between projects and pools in the Servercore Cloud Platform is also considered internal.
There is no charge for traffic (inbound and outbound) from the Cloud Platform to any other Servercore services.
View consumption
You can view the current cost of the entire cloud infrastructure, as well as consumption and billing for the infrastructure and external traffic, in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section**.
Current cost
Current cost is the amount of money that the current cloud infrastructure configuration consumes over a specific period of time.
Current cost can be viewed in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section** → Current cost** tab**.
You can view the current cost of specific projects, resources, and pools by hour, day, or month.
Infrastructure cost data is updated every hour. In the Control panel, it is displayed 5–35 minutes after the actual changes to the infrastructure and its cost. Recently deleted resources may continue to be displayed in the Control panel until the next data update. However, resource billing stops from the hour following their deletion.
Consumption and billing charts
Infrastructure consumption and billing charts can be viewed in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section** → Expense chart** tab** → Consumed and Paid tabs.
You can view the consumption of specific projects, objects, resources, regions, and pools. Consumption and billing charts can be viewed for a specific time period or sorted by days, weeks, months, or years.
To export consumption and billing details in .csv format, click Download CSV and select how the rows in the export should be grouped (by hour, day, week, month, or year).
All resource locks are shown on the consumption and billing charts.
Traffic
External traffic consumption for the current month can be viewed in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section** → External traffic** tab**.
To export hourly external and internal traffic consumption details for all public account addresses in .csv format, select the period and click Download CSV. You can only export details for the last three months.
Prices
Prices for resources and external traffic can be viewed at servercore.com. Prices in pools may vary.
You can calculate the cost of a cloud server in the resource calculator.
Accounting documents
After payment, you can obtain accounting documents.