Getting the Price of Your Resources

You can calculate the price of any OUTSCALE resource in the Region of your account using the ReadCatalog API method. For more information, see the corresponding API methods.

To calculate the price of custom or dedicated instances, you need to get prices listed in the result of the ReadCatalog API method, and then use a formula to calculate the final price depending on your resource’s characteristics.

If you do not have OUTSCALE credentials, you can use the ReadPublicCatalog API method to get the prices of OUTSCALE resources for the Region specified in the endpoint of your request. For more information, see Regions, Endpoints and Availability Zones Reference.

Calculating the Price of Custom Instances

Get the three following prices using the ReadCatalog method:

The price of a vCore, per hour (Instance - On demand - vCore unit for a CxRy Linux/Windows/Oracle instance - per hour)
The price for 1 GiB of memory, per hour (Instance - On demand - RAM unit for a CxRy Linux/Windows/Oracle instance - per hour)
The product price for custom instances, per hour (Instance - On demand - Additional price for a CxRy Linux/Windows/Oracle instance - per hour)

These three prices depend on the product type of your instance (Linux, Windows, or Oracle). For more information about Linux and Windows custom instances, see Instance Types.

Calculating the Price of Dedicated Instances

Get the two following prices using the ReadCatalog method:

The usage price for dedicated instances, per hour (Instance - Dedicated instances usage - per hour)
The additional price for dedicated instances, in percentage and per hour (Instance - Dedicated Instance - Additional price - per hour)

Calculate the dedicated instance price per hour, corresponding to the classic instance price increased by the additional price, using the following formula:

Instance_price + ((Instance_price x Additional_price)/100)

This formula uses the following information:

Instance_price: The price for the instance, per hour.

If your dedicated instance is a custom one, you first need to calculate its price per hour using the corresponding method provided in the Calculating the Price of Custom Instances section above.

Additional_price: The additional price for dedicated instances, in percentage and per hour.

To get the total price per hour for your dedicated instance, add the usage price for dedicated instances to the dedicated instance price per hour calculated in the previous step.

The usage price is charged only once, from the moment you launch your first dedicated instance to the moment you terminate your last dedicated instance.

In the following example, the dedicated instances are launched and terminated at different times:

Example of Pricing for Dedicated Instances

sch DedicatedInstancesBilling

The charged price for this example is:

The price of Instance 1 and its corresponding additional price for dedicated instances, for one hour
The price of Instance 2 and its corresponding additional price for dedicated instances, for one hour
The usage price 1 for dedicated instances for one and a half hour (from the moment Instance 1 was launched to the moment Instance 2 was terminated)
The price of Instance 3 and its corresponding additional price for dedicated instances, for one hour
The usage price 2 for dedicated instances for one hour (from the moment Instance 3 was launched to the moment it was terminated)

The currency used for billing depends on the Region of your account:

eu-west-2 and cloudgouv-eu-west-1: EUR
us-east-2, us-west-1, and ap-northeast-1: USD

Calculating the Price of Reserved Instances

To get the price of a reserved instance, use one of the following formulas depending on the duration you chose for your reservation:

1 month (30% off):
```
Instance_price x 24 x 30 x 0.7
```
1 year (40% off):
```
Instance_price x 24 x 365 x 0.6
```
2 years (50% off):
```
Instance_price x 24 x 365 x 2 x 0.5
```
3 years (60% off):
```
Instance_price x 24 x 365 x 3 x 0.4
```

The Instance_price corresponds to the price per hour for your instance:

The price list is available at the following address: https://en.outscale.com/pricing/.
For a custom and/or dedicated instance, you first need to calculate its price per hour using the corresponding methods provided in the Calculating the Price of Custom Instances and Calculating the Price of Dedicated Instances sections above.

The currency used for billing depends on the Region of your account:

eu-west-2 and cloudgouv-eu-west-1: EUR
us-east-2, us-west-1, and ap-northeast-1: USD

Related Pages

Corresponding API Methods