Payment model and pricing of Managed Databases
Balance
You can pay for Cloud Platform resources using different types of funds: main funds or bonuses.
Before paying, top up the balance.
Payment model
The Cloud Platform uses the pay-as-you-go payment model. Every hour, funds are deducted from the balance for the previous hour of using Cloud Platform resources, and external traffic is charged.
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 the balance at the time of debiting, all resources of the Cloud Platform will be automatically blocked — while charges for them will continue to accrue.
To restore access to resources, top up the balance by the debt amount within 14 days after the blocking. The debt for resources that were billed during the blocking period will be automatically settled. Projects are not blocked — you can delete an entire project or 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-ups, you can set up 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.
For all projects within a single Cloud Platform account, 3 TB of free external traffic is provided each month. After using the free 3 TB, external traffic is charged according to the Cloud Platform payment model.
By default, basic Servercore DDoS protection is enabled for the Cloud Platform. Filtered malicious DDoS traffic is not counted in consumption and is not billed.
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 all cloud infrastructure, consumption, and payment for 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.
You can view the current cost in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform Consumption → 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
You can view infrastructure consumption and payment charts in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform Consumption → 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 payment details in .csv format, click Download CSV and select how rows will be grouped in the export (by hours, days, weeks, months, years).
All resource suspensions are displayed on consumption charts and payment charts.
Traffic
You can view external traffic consumption for the current month in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform Consumption → External Traffic tab.
To export hourly consumption details for external and internal traffic across all public IP addresses of the account in .csv format, select a 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 receive accounting documents.