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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**.

{% hint style="warning" %}
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.

{% hint style="info" %}
Taking the 1st case as an example, if a user uses an **A100-40GB-NVLINK-1x** which is priced at **Rs.105/hour** and the user uses the VM for 1 hour 40 minutes, the billed duration will be 1 hour 45 minutes, hence the final bill will be **105 + 105\*(45/60) = Rs. 183.75**
{% endhint %}

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### Billing by Compute Type

#### Virtual Machines (VMs)

VMs are billed based on their **CPU and GPU configurations** (vCPU count, memory, and GPU type). Pricing varies by VM flavour and region.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="CPU VMs" %}

<table><thead><tr><th>Flavour</th><th data-type="number">vCPU Count</th><th data-type="number">RAM</th><th data-type="number">Cost (Rs/Hour)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>CPU-1x-4GB</strong></td><td>1</td><td>4</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td><strong>CPU-2x-8GB</strong></td><td>2</td><td>8</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td><strong>CPU-4x-16GB</strong></td><td>4</td><td>16</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td><strong>CPU-8x-32GB</strong></td><td>8</td><td>32</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td><strong>CPU-16x-64GB</strong></td><td>16</td><td>64</td><td>49</td></tr><tr><td><strong>CPU-32x-128GB</strong></td><td>32</td><td>128</td><td>97</td></tr></tbody></table>
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="GPU VMs" %}

<table><thead><tr><th width="126.93359375">Flavour</th><th width="110.52734375">vCPU Count</th><th width="109.5859375">RAM (GB)</th><th width="106.40234375" data-type="number">GPU Count</th><th width="115.03125" data-type="number">GPU Memory</th><th data-type="number">Cost (Rs/Hour)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>A100-40GB-NVLINK-1x</strong></td><td>24</td><td>96</td><td>1</td><td>40</td><td>105</td></tr><tr><td><strong>A100-40GB-NVLINK-2x</strong></td><td>48</td><td>192</td><td>2</td><td>80</td><td>210</td></tr><tr><td><strong>A100-40GB-NVLINK-4x</strong></td><td>96</td><td>384</td><td>4</td><td>160</td><td>420</td></tr><tr><td><strong>A100-40GB-NVLINK-8x</strong></td><td>192</td><td>687</td><td>8</td><td>320</td><td>840</td></tr><tr><td><strong>A100-80GB-NVLINK-1x</strong></td><td>24</td><td>96</td><td>1</td><td>80</td><td>160</td></tr><tr><td><strong>H100-NVLINK-1x</strong></td><td>24</td><td>200</td><td>1</td><td>80</td><td>290</td></tr><tr><td><strong>H100-NVLINK-2x</strong></td><td>48</td><td>400</td><td>2</td><td>160</td><td>580</td></tr><tr><td><strong>H100-NVLINK-4x</strong></td><td>96</td><td>800</td><td>4</td><td>320</td><td>1160</td></tr></tbody></table>
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="AI Pods" %}

| SKU                     | GPUs | vCPUs | RAM     | GPU Memory | Price (₹/hour) |
| ----------------------- | ---- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | -------------- |
| A100-NVLINK-Tiny        | 1    | 16    | 30 GB   | 5 GB       | ₹24            |
| H100-NVLINK-Tiny        | 1    | 16    | 30 GB   | 10 GB      | ₹30            |
| A100-NVLINK-Nano        | 1    | 16    | 60 GB   | 10 GB      | ₹48            |
| H100-NVLINK-Nano        | 1    | 16    | 60 GB   | 20 GB      | ₹61            |
| A100-NVLINK-Mini        | 1    | 16    | 60 GB   | 20 GB      | ₹73            |
| H100-NVLINK-Mini        | 1    | 16    | 60 GB   | 40 GB      | ₹91            |
| A100-NVLINK-Standard-1x | 1    | 24    | 60 GB   | 40 GB      | ₹170           |
| H100-NVLINK-Standard-1x | 1    | 24    | 128 GB  | 80 GB      | ₹213           |
| A100-NVLINK-Standard-2x | 2    | 48    | 128 GB  | 80 GB      | ₹340           |
| H100-NVLINK-Standard-2x | 2    | 52    | 250 GB  | 160 GB     | ₹425           |
| A100-NVLINK-Standard-4x | 4    | 96    | 250 GB  | 160 GB     | ₹610           |
| H100-NVLINK-Standard-4x | 4    | 104   | 500 GB  | 320 GB     | ₹850           |
| A100-NVLINK-Standard-8x | 8    | 192   | 1000 GB | 320 GB     | ₹1300          |
| H100-NVLINK-Standard-8x | 8    | 208   | 2000 GB | 640 GB     | ₹1700          |
| {% endtab %}            |      |       |         |            |                |
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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