Cloud server payment model and pricing
Balance
To pay for a cloud server, depending on the balance type in the account, either the unified balance or the Cloud Platform balance is used.
You can pay for cloud server resources with different types of funds: main funds, bonuses.
Before paying, top up your balance.
Payment model
Cloud servers use the pay-as-you-go payment model. Funds are deducted from the balance every hour for the previous hour of using cloud server resources and consumed external traffic if it has exceeded the free traffic limit of 3 TB across all account projects.
Cloud server resource billing is generated 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.
Resource consumption billing depends on the type of resources (quota-limited or non-quota-limited). For more information on quota and non-quota resources, see 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 turning off or pausing a server, because resources remain reserved for it. When freezing a server, vCPU, RAM, and GPU are not billed, while the remaining resources are paid for.
For example, you created a cloud server with resources: vCPU, RAM, and Universal volume. If you turn off or pause the cloud server, resources will continue to be billed every hour.
When transferring a project to another account, the project's resource consumption for the hour during which the transfer was performed will be billed to the receiving account. The transferring account will not be charged 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 on billing, see the document Terms of Use for Individual Services: Cloud Platform Service Group.
For more details on all cloud server resources, see the Selectel products that support projects subsection of the General information about projects guide.
Resource statuses considered for 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 debit, all cloud server resources will be automatically suspended, while charges for them will continue to accrue.
To restore access to resources, you need to top up your balance by the debt amount:
- 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 by the debt amount within the allocated time after being blocked, 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 case.
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 resource and a public address on the internet. All other traffic is considered internal.
3 TB of free external traffic is provided every month for all projects within a single Cloud Platform account. Once the free 3 TB of external traffic is used up, traffic will be billed like other Cloud Platform resources. This means that funds for traffic consumed in the previous hour will be deducted from your balance every hour. The cost of paid traffic will be added to the total cost of the resource group within the project.
By default, basic Selectel DDoS protection is enabled for Cloud Platform. Malicious filtered 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 resource and the public address of another Selectel service, such as a Dedicated Server.
Traffic between projects and pools in the Selectel cloud platform is also considered internal.
On the cloud platform side, traffic (inbound and outbound) to any other Selectel services is free of charge.
View consumption
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 paid external traffic that exceeds 3 TB can be found on selectel.ru. 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.