VMware-based Public Cloud payment and pricing model

Last update: October 05 2026Open in Markdown

Balance

To pay for public cloud resources, depending on the account balance type, the united balance or the VMware-based cloud balance is used.

You can pay for the public cloud with various types of funds: main funds, bonuses.

Before enabling the public cloud (creating a virtual data center), top up your balance with at least 1,000 ₽.

To ensure that there are always sufficient funds on your balance, you can configure balance status notifications and automatic balance top-up.

Payment model

VMware-based public cloud is billed on a pay-as-you-go model — payment for consumed resources is deducted hourly. Funds start being deducted from the balance after successfully creating a virtual data center.

If you create vApp templates, you pay for storage resources — all virtual machine disks of 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 upon canceling the public cloud — to do this, delete the virtual data centers.

Learn more about payment in the Terms of Use.

Resource locking if there are insufficient funds in the 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.

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

You can view resource prices and calculate the estimated cost of VMware-based public cloud using the calculator at selectel.ru.

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

You can view the cost of your infrastructure, cloud resource consumption, and payment in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Consumption.

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: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Consumption → Current cost tab.

Consumption and payment charts

You can view compute resource consumption and payment charts in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Consumption → Expense chart tab.

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

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

All resource locks are displayed on the consumption and payment charts (the Consumed and Paid tabs).

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: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Consumption → Consumption report tab. In the report, you can display the cost of resources per year, month, week, day, or hour.

Reporting documents

After payment, you can obtain accounting documents.