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Usage and Costs

Kupe Cloud turns platform usage into a billing estimate throughout the current period, then finalizes those values into invoice line items at the end of the cycle.

Compute usage

Section titled “Compute usage”

Compute is billed from resource-hours across the billing window:

  • CPU in core-hours
  • memory in GiB-hours
  • storage in GiB-hours

In practice, that means billing follows the resources your clusters are allocated over time. Unused plan headroom is not billed.

Compute formula

Section titled “Compute formula”
resource quantity x hours x hourly rate

Current compute rates:

ResourceRateMonthly equivalent
CPU£0.030/vCPU/hour£21.90/vCPU
Memory£0.006/GiB/hour£4.38/GiB
Storage£0.000116/GiB/hour£0.085/GiB

Example

Section titled “Example”

If a cluster is allocated 4 vCPU, 16 GiB memory, and 100 GiB storage for a full hour:

(4 x 0.030) + (16 x 0.006) + (100 x 0.000116) = £0.2276/hour

Observability usage

Section titled “Observability usage”

Each plan includes an observability allowance. Kupe tracks two things for billing:

  • metrics usage by active-series P95 over the billing period
  • logs usage by total ingest volume over the billing period

Usage within the included allowance is covered by the plan.

If overage remains enforced, the allowance acts as a hard limit and no overage charge is added.

If a tenant admin allows overage, usage above the included amount is billed at the flat overage rates.

Overage rates

Section titled “Overage rates”
ResourceRate
Metrics active series£0.003/series/month
Log ingest£0.30/GB/month

Overage formula

Section titled “Overage formula”
max(0, actual usage - included allowance) x unit rate

What you see in the console

Section titled “What you see in the console”

The console splits this across two views:

  • Usage shows your current pool usage, included observability allowance, and whether overage is allowed
  • Billing shows the current-period estimate, breakdown by cost category, and completed invoices

If your plan changes during the billing period, the current-period estimate reflects the prorated result across the affected plan windows.

What the current estimate includes

Section titled “What the current estimate includes”

The current-period estimate can include:

  • compute charges accrued so far
  • metrics overage accrued so far
  • logs overage accrued so far
  • estimated credits applied so far

It is an estimate until the billing period closes and the invoice is issued.

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”