Instant Clusters offer two compute billing options: reserved and on-demand.
Reservations – Credits are charged upfront or deducted for the full
reserved duration once the cluster is provisioned. Any usage beyond the reserved
capacity is billed at on-demand rates.
On-Demand – Pay only for the time your cluster is running, with no upfront
commitment.
Storage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis, as detailed on our pricing
page. You can freely increase or
decrease your storage volume size, with all usage billed at the same rate.
You can view your current usage anytime on the Billing page in
Settings. Each invoice includes a
detailed breakdown of reservation, burst, and on-demand usage for compute and
storage.
Clusters and storage volumes follow different lifecycle policies:
Compute Clusters – Clusters are automatically decommissioned when their
reservation period ends. To extend a reservation, please contact your account
team.
Storage Volumes – Storage volumes are persistent and remain available as
long as your billing account is in good standing. They are not automatically
deleted. The user data persists as long as you use the static PV we provide.
When your credits are exhausted, resources behave differently depending on their
type:
Reserved Compute – Existing reservations remain active until their
scheduled end date. Any additional on-demand capacity used to scale beyond the
reservation is decommissioned.
Fully On-Demand Compute – Clusters are first paused and then
decommissioned if credits are not restored.
Storage Volumes – Access is revoked first, and the data is later
decommissioned.
You will receive alerts before these actions take place. For questions or
assistance, please contact your billing team.
Reserved clusters cannot be paused – you’re charged for the full reservation
period. On-demand clusters can be terminated and recreated later, but there’s
no “pause” function.
