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title: "VMware-based Public Cloud payment and pricing model"
sidebar_label: "Payment and pricing model"
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description: "How to pay for a VMware-based public cloud, what is the payment model for a public cloud, and where to see the prices"
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# VMware-based Public Cloud payment and pricing model

## Balance \{#balance}

To pay for public cloud resources, depending on the account's balance type, a [single balance](/balance-and-payments/balance.mdx#united-balance) or a [VMware-based cloud balance](/balance-and-payments/balance.mdx#balances-by-service-type) is used.

You can pay for the public cloud using different [types of funds](/balance-and-payments/balance.mdx): basic funds or bonuses.

Before connecting the public cloud (creating a virtual data center), [top up your balance](/balance-and-payments/manage/top-up-balance.mdx) by at least 1 000 ₽.

To ensure there are always enough funds in your balance, you can configure [balance status notifications](/balance-and-payments/manage/balance-notifications/) and [automatic balance top-ups](/balance-and-payments/manage/scheduled-payments/).

## Payment model \{#payment-model}

VMware-based public cloud is billed on a pay-as-you-go model—payment for [consumed resources](#view-consumption) is deducted every hour.Billing starts after the successful [creation of a virtual data center](/public-cloud/manage-public-cloud/create-virtual-data-center/).

If you [create vApp templates](/public-cloud/manage-public-cloud/manage-vapp-and-vm/), you pay for storage resources — all disks of the virtual machines in that template.

If all virtual machines in a virtual data center are turned off, Edge gateways, networks, routed addresses, and licenses continue to be charged. When one virtual machine out of several is turned off, charges for disk usage continue.

You can stop payments by cancelling your public cloud — to do this, [delete your virtual data centers](/public-cloud/manage-public-cloud/delete-virtual-data-center/).

Learn more about payment in the [Terms of Service](https://files.selectel.ru/docs/ru/conditions-vmware.pdf).

## Resource locking if there are insufficient funds in the balance \{#insufficient-balance}

If there are insufficient funds in the balance to pay for consumed resources, access to the virtual data center is suspended. However, public cloud resources (vCPU, memory, disks, Edge gateways, IP addresses, Direct Connected subnets) continue to be charged.

To restore access, [top up your balance](/balance-and-payments/manage/top-up-balance/).

If you do not top up the balance:

* within 5 days — virtual machines will be shut down;
* within 14 days — all virtual machines and other resources will be deleted without the possibility of recovery.

## Prices \{#prices}

You can view resource prices and calculate the approximate cost of a VMware-based public cloud using the calculator at [selectel.ru](https://selectel.ru/services/cloud/vmware/public-cloud/?section=prices).

When calculating costs, all virtual machine configuration parameters (vCPU, RAM, disk size) are summed up. For stopped virtual machines, only disks are taken into account. Once an hour, the maximum value of the resource sums is selected and multiplied by the hourly resource cost, which is then deducted from the balance.

## View consumption \{#view-consumption}

You can view your infrastructure costs, consumption, and cloud resource payments in the [Control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/consumption/infrastructure/): in the top menu, click **Products** → **VMware-based Cloud** → **Consumption**.

### Current cost \{#current-cost}

Current cost is the amount of money that the current VMware cloud infrastructure configuration consumes per month, day, or hour.

You can view the current cost of resources in the [Control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/consumption/infrastructure/): in the top menu, click **Products** → **VMware-based Cloud** → **Consumption** → **Current cost tab**.

### Consumption and payment charts \{#consumption-and-cost-graphics}

You can view compute resource consumption and payment charts in the [Control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/consumption/infrastructure/): in the top menu, click **Products** → **VMware-based Cloud** → **Consumption** → **Cost graph tab**.

You can view resource consumption and payments and sort them by time period.

To download consumption and payment details in `.csv` format, click **Download CSV** and select how the rows in the export will be grouped (by hour, day, week, month, year).

All [resource locks](#insufficient-balance) are displayed on consumption and payment charts ( \*\*Consumed \* \*\*\* and Paid tabs \*\*).

### Consumption report \{#consumption-report}

You can generate and download a report on the consumption of paid resources for any period of time.

You can generate a report in the [Control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/consumption/infrastructure/): in the top menu, click **Products** → **VMware-based cloud** → **Consumption** → the **Consumption report** tab. In the report, you can display the cost of resources by year, month, week, day, or hour.

## Reporting documents \{#reporting-documents}

After payment, you can [retrieve reporting documents](/balance-and-payments/accounting-documents/).

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