File storage payment model and prices
This instruction describes the payment model and prices for file storage created in the Control panel after June 13, 2023.
If you created file storage via technical support before June 13, 2023, you must pay for it monthly; it does not renew automatically.
Balance
Depending on the account balance type, Cloud Platform resources are paid using a united balance or a Cloud Platform balance.
You can pay for resources using different fund types: basic funds or bonuses.
Before paying, top up your balance.
Payment model
The Cloud Platform uses a pay-as-you-go payment model. Each hour, funds are debited from your balance for the previous hour of using Cloud Platform resources.
All created resources are charged for, even if they are turned off.
For more details on payment, see the Terms of Use for Selected Services: Cloud Platform Service Group.
Blocking resources due to insufficient funds
If there are insufficient funds in your balance at the time of debit, all Cloud Platform resources will be automatically blocked—you will continue to be charged for them.
To restore access to resources, you must top up your balance for the amount of the debt within 14 days after the blocking. The debt for resources charged during the blocking period will be cleared automatically. Projects are not blocked—you can delete a project entirely or delete resources via the API.
If you do not top up your balance by the debt amount within 14 days after the blocking, all resources will be deleted. Projects are not deleted in this process.
To ensure you do not miss balance top-ups, you can set up balance status 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.
All projects under a single Cloud Platform account are provided with 3 TB of free external traffic every month. After the 3 TB of free traffic is used, external traffic is charged according to the Cloud Platform payment model.
By default, basic Selectel DDoS protection is enabled for the Cloud Platform. Malicious filtered DDoS traffic is not counted toward your usage 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 or S3.
Traffic between projects and pools in the Selectel Cloud Platform is also considered internal.
There is no charge on the Cloud Platform side for traffic (inbound and outbound) to any other Selectel services.
View usage
You can view the current cost of the entire cloud infrastructure, as well as consumption and billing for the 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.
Current cost can be viewed in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section** → 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
Infrastructure consumption and billing charts can be viewed in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section** → 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 billing details in .csv format, click Download CSV and select how the rows in the export should be grouped (by hour, day, week, month, or year).
All resource locks are shown on the consumption and billing charts.
Traffic
External traffic consumption for the current month can be viewed in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section** → External traffic** tab**.
To export hourly external and internal traffic consumption details for all public account addresses in .csv format, select the period and click Download CSV. You can only export details for the last three months.
Prices
Resource prices can be viewed at selectel.ru. Prices in pools may vary.
Accounting documents
After payment, you can receive accounting documents.