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# Billing for Compute

Krutrim Cloud offers transparent and usage-based pricing for all compute services, including **VMs, AI Pods, and GPU Baremetals**. This guide will help you understand how billing is calculated and what to expect on your invoices when using our compute infrastructure.

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### Billing Overview

Compute resources are billed **based on actual usage**, with rates displayed on an **hourly basis**. However, Krutrim applies **fine-grained metering**, ensuring you're only charged for what you use, in **15-minute billing intervals**.

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You are only billed while your resources are in an **active** state (running or initialising). Stopped or terminated resources do not incur compute charges, although associated storage or IPs may continue to incur costs.
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### Metering and Billing Logic

Even though prices are shown as per-hour rates, the actual metering happens in **15-minute increments**. The minimum billable unit is 15 minutes.

#### Example Billing Scenarios:

| Usage Duration    | Billed Duration      |
| ----------------- | -------------------- |
| 1 hour 40 minutes | 1 hour 45 minutes    |
| 2 hours 5 minutes | 2 hours 15 minutes   |
| 35 minutes        | 45 minutes           |
| 14 minutes        | 15 minutes (minimum) |

This granularity ensures that you are billed fairly and precisely, with charges rounded **up** to the nearest 15-minute mark.

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Taking the first case as an example, if a user uses an **A100-80GB-NVLINK-1x**, which is priced at **₹189/hour**, and the user runs the VM for **1 hour 40 minutes**, the billed duration will be **1 hour 45 minutes**. Hence, the final bill will be **189 + 189 × (45/60) = ₹330.75**.
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### Billing by Compute Type

#### Virtual Machines (VMs)

Please refer to our [Pricing page.](broken://pages/VJjxSml8oHCwP7uqIXxi)

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#### GPU Baremetals

GPU Baremetal servers provide exclusive access to full GPUs for high-performance workloads. These are **custom-configured deployments** and require you to **contact our sales team** for pricing and provisioning.

To request GPU Baremetal pricing, please reach out to our Sales team at **<sales@olakrutrim.com>**

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### Billing

Our Billing cycle happens every **15 minutes**, but you will be charged for the duration during which you used the pod during those 15 minutes.

**Example**:\
Let’s say you started a pod at 10:00 and you terminated the pod at 10:10.\
➡️ You will only be charged for **10 minutes**.

### Other Considerations

* **Attached Storage**: Any block storage volumes attached to compute instances will be billed separately based on the size and duration of attachment.
* **Elastic IPs**: IPs assigned to stopped or unattached VMs may incur additional costs.
* **Snapshots and Backups**: Charged independently based on size and retention period.
* **Overage or Quota Breach**: Exceeding free-tier or reserved quota (if applicable) will automatically incur standard pricing.

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### Where to View Usage

You can track your ongoing usage and estimated billing:

* In the **Billing Dashboard** on the Krutrim Console
* Via **API** or SDK for programmatic access to usage summaries
* Through **alerts and usage reports**, which can be configured by account or project