Pricing & Meters (overview)

Understand how usage is measured and billed across services.

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Meters

Area	Examples
Compute	vCPU-hours, RAM-hours, instance-hours
Storage	GB-months (block, snapshots, backups)
Networking	Public IPs, load balancer hours, egress (if applicable)
Kubernetes	Node-hours, control-plane (if applicable)

Pricing

• Transparent per-meter rates shown in Pricing and Create wizards

• Charges accrue continuously for running resources; storage is billed while allocated

• Stopped VMs may still incur storage and IP charges