Pay-As-You-Go Billing Model

Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) billing model implies that a customer is charged for actual resource usage on an hourly rate. Resource rates can be defined for the running/stopped states of a cloud server.

In the PAYG model, all subscriptions are based on service plan(s) with a monthly billing period. When you configure your service plans, make sure that the billing period is set to Monthly.

A customer can have only one subscription of the particular service plan type. For example, if a customer has CS Hosting SSD subscription, then selecting SSD plan from Home screen in UX1 for Customers will add the server to the existing subscription.

When you buy a cloud server, you don't pay for it right away. The price, shown in CCP, is approximate. You are billed at the end of the month for the actual resource usage during this month. The daily resource usage is counted starting from 00:00 am (a customer’s time zone).

The price per month is calculated in the following way:

Price for a resource per month = price for a unit of the resource per hour * used resource amount * 24 hours * 30 days

For example:

1MBh of RAM costs $0.000001. A customer buys a cloud server with 128MB of RAM. After 2 weeks the customer buys additional RAM and gets a total of 512MB of RAM.

Price for the first two weeks for 128MB of RAM = (128MB * 14days * 24hours) * $0.000001= $0.04

Price for the rest of the month for 512MB of RAM = (512MB * 16days * 24hours) * $0.000001 = $0.2

Total price at the end of the month = $0.04 + $0.2 = $0.24

The prices for CS resources usually require 6-digit precision as they represent a price for unit per hour. Billing by default provides 4-digit precision, therefore you need to additionally configure it for Cloud Infrastructure Automation. For more details, refer to https://kb.cloudblue.com/116094.

Prices are taken from the subscription. If a provider changed SP resource rates and synchronized the customer's subscription, the prices will be overwritten and the updated prices will be taken for calculations.

To learn more about collecting and reporting Cloud Infrastructure Automation resource usage, refer to https://kb.cloudblue.com/129303.