How Fransys bills

Credits, no subscription

You buy credits: 1 credit = €1. They’re used as you go, by the hour, while machines are running. Nothing running, nothing used.

You top up whenever you like, or you turn on automatic payment. See Credits and automatic payment.

What you pay

• The machines at the hosting provider’s price, when the cluster runs on the Fransys account. On your own cloud account, the provider bills you directly.
• The Fransys share: based on the machines’ CPUs, memory and GPUs, plus the load balancer, IP addresses, volumes, backups, logs and metrics.

The breakdown, item by item: Pricing.

Before any cluster is created, the console shows the monthly cost. A billing month counts 730 hours.

The Budget page

At the top, four figures:

• Credits left, out of the balance at the start of the period;
• Used since the start of the period;
• Current rate, per month, with the amount per day and per hour;
• End of period, at the current rate.

Then a sentence that says how long your credits will last, and what happens next. See Never get shut down.

Where your money goes

The Where your money goes section breaks spending down by cluster, then by billed resource (servers, load balancer, IP addresses, volumes): since when it has been running, what it has used, and its price if it runs all month. Export as CSV gives the same table.

Invoices and statements

• An invoice for each top-up of credits.
• A usage statement at the end of each period.

They’re in Invoices and statements, as PDFs. Your billing details (name or company name, address, country, VAT number) appear on them; the country sets the VAT applied.