Object storage fee and pricing model
Balance
To pay for object storage resources, depending on the type of balance in the account, a single balance or the balance of the storage and CDN is used. Money is deducted from the balance every hour according to the payment model.
You can pay for resources with different types of funds: basic funds, bonuses.
Top up your balance before you start using the vault.
Payment Model
Object storage is paid for using the pay-as-you-go model — payment for consumed resources is deducted every hour.
As long as there are uploaded objects in the storage, it is charged — to stop charging, delete all data.
Blocking of resources if there is not enough money on the balance
If there is not enough money in the balance to pay for the consumed resources for the previous hour, the operation of the object storage is suspended:
- access to data (read, change) is blocked;
- data storage continues to be charged.
The data will be stored for 30 calendar days. If the money is not received, all data will be deleted without possibility of recovery.
You can set up balance notifications and auto-replenishment to ensure that you always have enough money on your balance.
Prices
Prices for resources can be viewed at selectel.ru.
You can calculate the approximate cost of using object storage in the resource calculator.
The cost is affected by the storage class and resource consumption:
- number of requests to the API;
- outgoing traffic volume (GB);
- storage capacity (MB/hour).
Storage classes
The storage class affects the price of each resource:
- cold storage — suitable for storing rarely used data. Low price for storage, but expensive API requests and outbound traffic. Resource prices are fixed for any consumption volume;
- standard storage — suitable for storing and distributing frequently used data. High price for storage, but cheap API requests and outgoing traffic. Resource prices depend on the volume of consumption (except for prices for API requests).
Technically and in terms of speed, the classes are the same.
Number of requests to API
Requests to the API are sent for any data operations.
GET, HEAD, PUT, POST, COPY requests are charged.
DELETE requests and requests to which HTTP response with codes 403, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504 is returned are not charged.
Outgoing traffic volume
Traffic from storage to the Internet (viewing and downloading objects) is charged.
Traffic within Selectel and incoming traffic is not charged.
Storage capacity
Every hour money is deducted from the balance for the current storage volume.You can view the current data volume in the project in the control panel: in the top menu click Products → Object Storage → section Containers → see the volume above the list of containers.
When calculating consumption for the month:
- the amount of storage consumed for each hour (MB/hour) is summarized;
- one month is considered to contain 730 hours.
The price per storage volume per month, which can be viewed on selectel.ru, is calculated according to the formula:
Цена за 1 ГБ/мес = Цена за 1 МБ/час * 1 024 МБ * 730 часов
If the storage volume has been changed, for standard storage, the charge for hours after the change will be the same as the new volume.
When segmented loading is used, object segments and the manifest file are charged.When versioning is enabled, all versions of objects are charged except those with the Deleted tag.
Empty containers also take up storage space (4KB) and are charged.
View Consumption
You can view resource consumption in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Object Storage → Consumption.If the storage objects are distributed via CDN, in the control panel, in the top menu, click Products → CDN → Consumption.
The data is presented in the form of consumption and payment graphs.You can view consumption on the Consumed tab for all types of resources and sort the graphs by the required time interval.
To upload consumption and payment details in .csv format, click Download CSV and select how the rows will be grouped in the upload (by hours, days, weeks, months, years).
Reporting documents
After charging money for the use of the object storage facility, reporting documents can be obtained.