Cloud server payment model and pricing
Balance
A single balance or cloud platform balance is used to pay for cloud platform resources depending on the type of balance in the account.
You can pay for resources with different types of funds: basic funds, bonuses.
Top up your balance before paying.
Payment Model
The cloud platform uses a pay-as-you-go payment model. The balance is debited every hour for the previous hour of using the cloud platform resources, and external traffic is paid for .
All resources created are paid for, even if they are turned off.
For example, you have created a cloud server with resources: vCPU, RAM, and Universal Disk. If you shut down or suspend the cloud server, the resources continue to be charged every hour.
When the server is frozen, vCPU, RAM and GPU are not charged, while other resources are charged.
More information about payment in the document Terms of use of individual services: service group Cloud platform.
Blocking resources if there are insufficient funds in the balance
If there are insufficient funds on your balance at the time of debiting, all resources of the cloud platform will be automatically blocked — and you will continue to be charged for them.
To restore access to resources, you need to top up your balance by the amount of the debt within 14 days after the blocking. The debt for resources that were charged during the blocking period will be automatically repaid. Projects are not blocked — you can delete the entire project or resources via API.
If you do not top up the balance for the amount of the debt within 14 days after the blocking, all resources of the cloud platform will be deleted. Projects will not be deleted.
You can set up balance notifications so you don't miss recharges.
External traffic
External traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic between the public address of the cloud platform object and the public address on the Internet. The rest of the traffic is internal traffic.
For all projects within one cloud platform account, 3 TB of free external traffic is provided each month. After using the free 3 TB of external traffic, the external traffic is charged according to the cloud platform payment model.
Selectel's basic DDoS protection is enabled by default for the cloud platform. Malicious filtered DDoS traffic is not counted in consumption 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 Selectel service, such as a Dedicated Server.
Traffic between projects and pools in Selectel's cloud platform is also referred to as internal traffic.
There is no charge for traffic (inbound and outbound) to any other Selectel services on the Cloud Platform side.
View Consumption
You can view the current cost of the entire cloud infrastructure, infrastructure and external traffic consumption and charges in the dashboard under Cloud Platform → Platform Consumption.
Present value
Present value is the amount of money that the current cloud infrastructure configuration consumes over a certain time.
You can view the current cost in the dashboard under Cloud Platform → Platform Consumption → Current Cost tab.
You can see the current value of specific projects, resources and pools per hour, day or month.
Infrastructure cost data is updated every hour. They are displayed in the Control panel 5-35 minutes after the actual change in infrastructure and its cost. Recently deleted resources can continue to be displayed in the dashboard until the next data update. In this case, resources are no longer charged from the next hour after deletion.
Consumption and payment schedules
Infrastructure consumption and payment schedules can be viewed in the dashboard under Cloud Platform → Platform Consumption → Expenditure Schedule tab → Consumed and Paid tabs .
You can view consumption of specific projects, objects, resources, regions, and pools. Consumption and payment schedules can be viewed for a certain period of time or sorted by days, weeks, months, years.
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).
All resource locks are displayed on consumption schedules and payment schedules.
Traffic
External traffic consumption for the current month can be viewed in the control panel under Cloud Platform → Platform Consumption → External Traffic tab.
To download a detailed breakdown of external and internal traffic consumption for each hour for all public addresses in the account in .csv format, select a period and click Download CSV. You can only upload details for the last three months.
Prices
Prices for resources and external traffic can be viewed at selectel.ru. Prices in pools may vary.
You can calculate the cost of a cloud server in the resource calculator.
Reporting documents
Reporting documents are available after payment.