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Cloud & AI Billing Guide

This article explains how Cloud & AI usage is charged and where you can view usage and billing details.

For wallet top-up, payment methods, balance alerts, monthly limits, and transaction records, see Cloud & AI Wallet.

Prices may change over time. For the latest billing information, refer to the pricing shown in your Cloud & AI Wallet or Pricing page.

How Cloud & AI Billing Works

Cloud & AI usage is charged based on the resources your app actually uses.

  • Cloud / Cloud infrastructure refers to the cost of running your app, including compute resources, storage, network traffic, and managed services.

  • AI / AI model usage refers to the cost of AI model inference in published apps, including GPT, Claude, and other LLM API calls. It does not include development usage.

If you have free Cloud or AI quota, the free quota is used first. After the free quota is exhausted, charges are deducted from your Cloud & AI Wallet balance.

What Cloud Resources May Be Charged?

The following Cloud resources may generate usage charges:

Item

What it means

Database storage

Data stored by your app’s database

Database compute

Compute resources used by your app’s database

Container image storage

Image storage generated during app builds and deployments

Serverless compute

Compute resources used when serverless functions run

Serverless requests

Invocation requests for serverless functions

Object storage space

Storage space used by files, images, and other objects

Object storage write operations

Upload, write, create, delete, and similar object storage operations

Object storage read operations

Read, view, query files or storage information, and similar object storage operations

Object storage may include both storage space charges and operation charges. Storage space is charged by the amount of data stored, while operation charges are based on the number and type of actions performed.

AI charges depend on the AI capabilities and models used by your app. You can view AI usage in the Usage tab.

Cloud Pricing

The prices below are the final rates charged from your Cloud & AI Wallet.

Item

Price

Database storage

$0.525 / GB-month

Database compute

$0.159 / CU-hour

Container image storage

$0.15 / GB-month

Serverless compute

$0.000025 / GB-second

Serverless requests

$0.30 / 1 million requests

Object storage space

$0.025 / GB-month

Object storage write operations

$7.00 / 1 million operations

Object storage read operations

$0.54 / 1 million operations

How Free Quota and Wallet Balance Are Used

If your account has free Cloud or AI quota, usage is deducted from the free quota first.

After the free quota is used up, continued Cloud or AI usage is paid from your Cloud & AI Wallet balance.

If both your free quota and wallet balance are used up, apps that depend on Cloud or AI capabilities may pause or stop working.

Where Can I View Usage?

Go to Settings > Cloud & AI > Usage.

You can view:

  • Cloud usage

  • AI usage

  • Project details

  • Cloud usage and AI usage for each project

  • Available actions for each project

Usage data is updated daily at UTC 0:00.

This helps you understand which projects generated Cloud or AI usage.

For top-ups, platform credits, refunds, adjustments, and other wallet balance changes, go to the Transactions tab. Transactions show money movement only, not detailed usage charges.

To view invoice records, click View invoice history if available.

How Can I Control Spending?

You can control Cloud & AI spending by:

  • Checking the Usage tab regularly to understand which projects generated usage.

  • Setting Balance Alerts so you are notified when your wallet balance is low.

  • Setting a Monthly Limit to control total Cloud & AI spending.

  • Enabling Auto top-up to reduce the risk of service interruption.

  • Pausing or deleting apps you no longer use.

Monthly limits are designed to help control spending risk, but they may not act as exact real-time hard stops.

Why May Actual Charges Differ From Estimates?

Actual charges may differ slightly from estimated amounts because some resources are billed after they are used.

For example:

  • Storage charges accumulate over time.

  • Some usage records are processed after resources are used.

  • Monthly limits are triggered after usage reaches or exceeds the threshold.

  • Usage that already occurred may still be billed after an app is paused.

Optional: How Are Charges Estimated?

If you want to manually estimate usage charges, they are generally calculated based on public prices and actual usage.

  • Storage fee = Storage GB × Monthly price × Usage hours ÷ 720

  • Compute fee = Usage amount × Unit price

  • Request fee = Request count ÷ 1,000,000 × Price per 1 million requests

  • Operation fee = Operation count ÷ 1,000,000 × Price per 1 million operations

  • Serverless compute fee = Runtime seconds × Memory GB × Price per GB-second

720 represents the estimated number of hours in a 30-day month.

Actual billing may vary slightly due to rounding, billing precision, and usage processing time.

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