Payment model and pricing of Managed Databases
Balance
You can pay for Cloud Platform resources using different types of funds: basic funds or bonuses.
Before you start paying, top up your balance.
Payment model
The Cloud Platform uses a pay-as-you-go payment model. Every hour, funds are debited from your balance for the previous hour of using Cloud Platform resources, and you are also charged for external traffic.
All created resources are charged for, even if they are turned off.
For example, you have created a Managed Database cluster with resources: vCPU, RAM, and Local Disk. If the cluster is suspended, the resources will continue to be charged for every hour.
Resource blocking if there are insufficient funds on the balance
If there are insufficient funds on your balance at the time of the scheduled debit, all Cloud Platform resources will be automatically blocked, but you will continue to be charged for them.
To restore access to resources, you must top up your balance to cover the debt within 14 days after the blocking. The debt for resources that were charged while blocked will be automatically settled. Projects are not blocked — you can delete a project entirely or delete resources via the API.
If you do not top up your balance to cover the debt within 14 days after the account is blocked, all Cloud Platform resources will be deleted. Projects themselves will not be deleted.
To avoid missing balance top-up requirements, you can configure balance notifications.
External traffic
External traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic between the public address of a Cloud Platform object and a public address on the internet. All other traffic is considered internal.
Every month, 3 TB of free external traffic is provided for all projects within a single Cloud Platform account. After the 3 TB of free traffic is used, external traffic is charged according to the Cloud Platform payment model.
By default, basic Servercore DDoS protection is enabled for the Cloud Platform. Malicious DDoS traffic that is filtered out is not counted towards your usage and is not charged.
Internal traffic
Internal traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic between the public address of a Cloud Platform object and the public address of another Servercore service, such as a Dedicated Server or S3.
Traffic between projects and pools in the Servercore Cloud Platform is also considered internal.
There is no charge on the Cloud Platform side for traffic (inbound and outbound) to any other Servercore services.
View usage
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 on servercore.com. Prices in pools may vary.
Accounting documents
After payment, you can retrieve accounting documents.