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Public Cloud Instances - Switching from hourly to monthly billing

Stephanie R.
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Learn how to switch from hourly to monthly billing for your OVHcloud Public Cloud B2/C2/R2 instances.

When you create a Public Cloud instance, you can choose to be billed at either an hourly or monthly rate. Hourly-rate instances are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis, i.e. at the end of each month, users are billed for every commenced hour per actual resources used.
For Gen 2 Public Cloud instances, monthly billing is up to 50% less expensive compared to an hourly rate for the same duration. Each month commenced will be billed at the end of the month.
If you initially selected hourly billing, you can switch to monthly billing at any time.

NOTE: You cannot switch from monthly to hourly billing. If you would like to be billed at the hourly rate, you will need to delete your monthly rate billing instance, create a new one, and select hourly billing. In this case, we suggest that you do the following procedure:

  • Create a snapshot of your current instance.

  • Create a new instance based on this snapshot.

  • Delete the monthly instance.

 

Requirements

 

Instructions

From the OVHcloud Control Panel

From the OVHcloud Control Panel,

  1. Click Public Cloud from the top navigation bar.
  2. Select your project, and click Instances.
  3. Choose the instance whose billing rate you would like to change, and click the more options ... button to the right of the Instance.
  4. Select the Switch to monthly subscription button.

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In the pop-up window, click Confirm to change the billing rate:

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Once you have confirmed your choice, you will immediately receive a monthly prorated bill. The next bill will include the hourly rate part of the month (1st of the month until the change) and the new monthly fee.

 

From the OVHcloud API

Log in to the OVHcloud API interface according to the relevant guide and follow the steps below.

Use the following call:

POST /cloud/project/{serviceName}/instance/{instanceId}/activeMonthlyBilling

For the API call:

PCI_billing_instancesubscription03*.png

 

Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other Public Cloud support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.

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