Billing, cost allocation and reports

You may download your monthly bill anytime on your account page, under the "Billing" tab.

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Monthly storage charge
Resource usage charge
Fixed additional charge

Storage

We charge storage every month by the maximum reserved space in gigabytes. All 3 types of file sets will be counted. You may check the current reserved space and actual consumption anytime on the account page. Click "Usage: Storage" and you should see the following charge.

The above report aggregated status among your entire account hierarchy. You may click an individual file set to inspect the breakdown status on the following screen:

Depending on individual contracts, discounts, free-of-charge credit, and tiered pricing may apply.

Resource usage

Similar to the quotas mechanism that we have discussed, our resource charge consists of 6 meters. Go to the account page and click "Usage: Job", you should see the page. This page display usages for each sub-account.

You may click an individual account name, to further break down the usage by users.

Besides using the web portal, you may also check the current usage with the CLI client. For example to check output the above chart in the console in JSON format:

$ hc charges -a appcara -o json                                                                                                                                              15:39:58
# {
#  "account": "appcara",
#  "charges": {
#    "shared_csu": 0.0,
#    "oneasia_csu": 14.866667,
#    "oneasia_gsu": 0.7766,
#    "dedicated_csu": 0.0,
#    "shared_gsu": 0.0,
#    "dedicated_gsu": 0.0
#  },
#  "key_mapping": {
#    "oneasia_gsu": "GPU charge (Oneasia)",
#    "oneasia_csu": "CPU/Mem charge (Oneasia)",
#    "dedicated_gsu": "GPU charge (Dedicated)",
#    "dedicated_csu": "CPU/Mem charge (Dedicated)",
#    "shared_csu": "CPU/Mem charge (Shared)",
#    "shared_gsu": "GPU charge (Shared)"
#  }
# }

Depending on individual contracts, discounts, free-of-charge credit, and tiered pricing may apply.

Additional charge

Depending on individual contracts, there may be additional charges appear on your bill. It can be a proportional discount or a fixed charge for support and maintenance.