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 virtual machines (VMs), 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.

You can get the price list of OUTSCALE services and resources within a specified time period (up to 3 years) using the ReadCatalogs OUTSCALE API method. For more information, see the ReadCatalogs command sample in the documentation of the OUTSCALE API.

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 Subregions Reference.

Calculating the Price of Custom VMs

Get the three following prices in the catalog:

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 VMs, per hour (Instance - On demand - Additional price for a CxRy Linux/Windows/Oracle instance - per hour)

These three prices depend on the product code of your VM (Linux, Windows, or Oracle). For more information about Linux and Windows custom VMs, see VM Types.

Calculating the Price of Dedicated VMs

Get the two following prices in the catalog:

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

Calculate the dedicated VM price per hour, corresponding to the classic VM 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 VM, per hour.

If your dedicated VM 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 VMs section above.
Additional_price: The additional price for dedicated VMs, in percentage and per hour.

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

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

In the following example, the dedicated VMs 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 VM 1 and its corresponding additional price for dedicated VMs, for one hour
The price of VM 2 and its corresponding additional price for dedicated VMs, for one hour
The usage price 1 for dedicated VMs for one and a half hour (from the moment VM 1 was launched to the moment VM 2 was terminated)
The price of VM 3 and its corresponding additional price for dedicated VMs, for one hour
The usage price 2 for dedicated VMs for one hour (from the moment VM 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 VMs

To get the price of a reserved VM, 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 VM:

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