Guides
Billing
Prepaid credits, per-second GPU billing, what is and is not charged, and what happens at zero.
How billing works
- Prepaid credits. You buy credit in US dollars, and usage draws it down.
- Per second. GPU time is billed by the second while a GPU is attached to your replica.
- Scale to zero. No traffic means no GPU and no GPU charge.
- No commitments. No reservations and no minimums beyond the minimum top-up.
Add credit
In the console, open Billing and choose a pack or a custom amount.
| Option | Amount |
|---|---|
| Packs | $20, $50, $100, $250 or $500 |
| Custom | Any whole-dollar amount from $10 to $10,000 |
Payment is handled by Stripe Checkout. Credit is added to your balance when the payment completes. ClockingCloud never sees or stores your card number.
What is charged
| Activity | Charged |
|---|---|
| GPU attached to a replica (running, provisioning, scaling) | Per second at the GPU rate |
clockingcloud run | Per GPU second until the job ends |
clockingcloud dev CPU sandbox | Per second at the CPU sandbox rate |
| Stopped or scaled-to-zero instance | No GPU charge |
clockingcloud plan, clockingcloud ls, clockingcloud logs, API reads | Free |
| ClockingCloud Global Volumes | For provisioned capacity while the volume exists |
| Your own S3, Azure or GCS bucket | Billed by your cloud provider |
Current rates for each GPU and for volumes are shown in the console and by clockingcloud plan and clockingcloud models ls --prices. Rates are quoted in US dollars.
When credit runs out
When your balance reaches zero, running instances are stopped and new requests fail with insufficient_credits (HTTP 402, CLI exit code 4). Definitions, volumes and trained adapters are kept. Add credit and run clockingcloud start <name>.
Watch your spend
clockingcloud balance
clockingcloud usage --since 7d --by model
clockingcloud topUse idle_timeout, a conservative scale.max, and clockingcloud plan before deploying to bound spend. Credits and refunds are governed by the Terms of Service.
Something unclear or missing? Email hello@clockingcloud.com.