How does storage billing work for serverless endpoints?
I found this article here https://docs.runpod.io/references/faq#how-does-storage-billing-work
But it doesn't mention anything about how endpoints/workers/containers are billed for their storage. Of course network volumes are obvious, because they are separate storage instances.
Say I have an endpoint that has 20GB provisioned for the container disk. How much will I be billed for this? Is it a flat fee regardless of number of workers? Or is it per worker? Where is the pricing listed?
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Unknown User•14mo ago
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@nerdylive Yes that's the article I linked. I did see this already. My question is really: is this per worker? Per endpoint? During worker operation?
It's not clear
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huh
Not sure I follow your post.... formatting issues perhaps?
But I guess I understand the gist, it's by worker at the price of Pod storage pricing, correct?
But complicated because workers are not always active.
So $0.10/GB-month while active and $0.20/GB-month while not active?
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Okay so $0.10/GB-month?
So an example: our endpoint needs 20GB container disk. If we have 10 workers that would be:
20GB container disk * 10 workers * $0.10/GB-month = $20/month
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What do you mean active? Not idle?
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What about when they are idle?
No cost?
Unknown User•14mo ago
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Should I just write support?
For example, if it's $0.10/GBmonth and applied to serverless active time (assuming per second)
that would be ~$0.000000038580247/s per GB
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So, using a network volume might save money because all the serverless functions share the same storage. It’s charged based on the storage used, regardless of how many workers are running. Is that correct?
@Arjun how are you being billed in your idle workers? why am I being billed even no one is calling the serverless endpoint and its just idle.
@Arjun now I deleted the endpoint, my current billing is around 0.9, then after sometime even my serverless endpoint is deleted it is still incurring cost.
and still continue, LMAO, what is this a scam?
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also check if you delete network volume
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need more context
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I am now on mobile and it still continues, I already checked all, storage, serverless, template, etc. Check the deletion time and when the cist incur, I already deleted it and still ongoing. I might have different timezone. What is the explanation for this? Im so dissapointed.
What more context you need?
which category is charging you money? Endpoint, serverless or storage? Did you create any API keys?
@agentpabibi pod id or send me on dm your runpod email
That's what I'm trying to figure out. If it is billed only when active, then it could be more expensive to use a Network Volume because a Network Volume is always being charged even when it is not attached to a Pod or Serverless endpoint
both volume and network storage are billed
I understand.
My original question was about Container disks. When do they get billed?
- When they are active only? 24/7?
- Are they billed per worker? Or per endpoint?
- How much are they billed in which state?
Container storage when pod is active
Volume storage when pod is active and when it's stoped
NS when 24/7
Oh sorry, This conversation is in the context of serverless. so I'm talking about the cost of container disks on serverless endpoints.
Check my screenshott earlier, only serverless even after I deleted it. No network volume, storage, etc. I deleted it all already even api key. And why does api key cost something. I deleted all, as in all. I checked it all, all deleted like a newly vreated account.
Oh, if you deleted all then it shouldn’t charge you any money. API key is free, but I was suspect if someone using your api key and without you knowing.
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@Arjun your charged only when workers are running, the disk charge is for container disk
for network volume your charged 24/7
serverless does not have pod volumes so you can ignore that
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yes when running, we don't yet charge for image size when not running
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when running container disk will get filled with image data
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its how container image layers and container disk works, not everything has to be in container disk
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