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Manage Your Billing

  • Capella Operational
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      Couchbase Capella bills you for the size and number of operational clusters in your organization.

      All billing in Capella takes place at the organization level. Your billing settings apply to all projects and operational clusters in your organization.

      To configure billing settings for your organization, you must have the Organization Owner role.

      How Couchbase Calculates Your Bill

      Couchbase calculates operational cluster charges daily.

      Any hourly charges for the current day are reflected in your organization’s balance on the next calendar day. Monthly usage periods for each calendar month include daily usage.

      When a Cluster is On

      Couchbase charges by the clock hour for Capella operational clusters. It bases this hourly rate on:

      • The cloud service provider and region where the operational cluster is deployed.

      • The operational cluster size, determined by:

        • Number of nodes

        • Number of vCPUs

        • Amount of RAM

        • GiB of disk storage

        • Disk IOPS and throughput (AWS and Azure Ultra Disk only)

      • The operational cluster Support Plan.

      Your operational cluster becomes billable after it successfully deploys and is in a running state. You’re billed for each clock hour that your operational cluster runs. For example, if your operational cluster ran at 10:30 a.m. and was turned off or deleted at 11:30 a.m. on the same day, you’re billed for 2 on hours because the operational cluster ran during 2 clock hours.

      You can change a clusters size or change its Support Plan after its deployment. The hourly rate for that operational cluster increases or decreases based on your changes.

      When a Cluster is Off

      For each clock hour where a Capella operational cluster is off, the hourly rate for an operational cluster is based on:

      • The cloud service provider and region where the operational cluster is deployed.

      • The operational cluster size, determined by:

        • Number of nodes

        • GiB of disk storage

        • Disk IOPS and throughput (AWS and Azure Ultra Disk only)

      For example, if your operational cluster ran at 10:30 a.m., was turned off at 11:30 a.m., and deleted at 1:30 p.m., you would be billed for 2 on clock hours and 2 off clock hours.

      App Services

      For more information about billing for App Services, see Billing.

      Bucket Backups

      Every clock hour, Capella measures the GiB amount of backup object storage consumed by each operational cluster.

      The GiB size of a backup volume is converted into an hourly volume, and multiplied by a $ per GiB rate. This rate varies by region and cloud service provider.

      For more information about bucket backups, see Back Up and Restore Bucket Data.

      Cluster Backups

      Every day, Capella measures the amount of snapshot storage consumed by each operational cluster. This is multiplied by a $ amount per GiB to calculate total cluster backup credits.

      This rate varies by region and cloud service provider.

      For more information about storage and size calculations for cluster backups, see Backup Types.

      Data Transfer Charges

      AWS, GCP, and Azure all charge variable rates for data moved between and out of their services.

      Capella passes through the cost of data transfer charges, based on the GiB amount and type of data transfer, for each operational cluster. Data transfer charges are in addition to any charges you may receive from a cloud service provider for connecting to Capella services.

      Cloud service providers typically charge for the following data transfer types:

      Type Description

      Inter-Zone or Intra-Region

      Charged for traffic crossing Availability Zones, VPC Peering Connections, or public IP addresses within the same region.

      In AWS and GCP, these charges are commonly .01 credit per GB, for both ingress and egress.

      In Azure, this is free of charge, except for VNET peering.

      These are the most common data transfer charges you’ll incur for using Capella.

      Inter Region

      Charges for instance traffic crossing regions, within the same cloud service provider.

      Inter-region traffic rates are specific to both the source regions, or where the data is moving out of, and the destination region, or where the data is moving to.

      Charges range from .01 credits/GB (between AWS us-east-1 and us-east-2) to .16 credits/GB (between Azure South America regions and other continents).

      Internet

      Data transferred out to the Internet, including data transferred to other Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers.

      These charges are typical .09 credits/GB in North American and European regions, with higher rates in Asia Pacific.

      The following data transfers are free of charge:

      • Data import into Capella.

      • Data transferred between instances in the same Availability Zone.

      Private Endpoints

      If you choose to connect to Capella through Private Endpoints, Couchbase provisions a single load balancer per operational cluster that enables that connection.

      You’ll be charged for Private Endpoints based on the following costs:

      • A fixed hourly connection cost, with an hourly rate that varies based on the region where the load balancer is deployed. Charges are for each clock hour that the Private Endpoint service is provisioned, regardless of usage or the state of your operational cluster (on or off).

      • A per GiB data processing charge for data processed through the load balancer, with a per GiB rate that varies based on the region where the Private Endpoint service is used.

      These charges are in addition to any Private Endpoint costs from AWS or Azure for the use of AWS PrivateLink or Azure Private Link.

      Payment Options

      Your usage and payment depend on how you pay for Couchbase Capella Credits:

      • With on-demand payment, Couchbase bills your organization for each monthly usage period.

      • With up-front payment, Couchbase deducts your organization’s operational cluster charges from the remaining credit balance each day.

      If you choose up-front payments, Couchbase charges you after each calendar day. Your monthly usage periods are used for reporting purposes only, unless you run out of pre-paid Couchbase Capella Credits.

      If you run out of credits, you can choose to pay on-demand and receive a bill for any on-demand usage that happened during a monthly usage period. You must pay this bill in arrears.

      Couchbase Capella Credits

      Couchbase Capella bills your operational cluster usage in Couchbase Capella Credits. You can purchase Credits from Couchbase Sales and pay up-front or on-demand.

      To enable credit purchases for your organization, you must add an Activation ID to your account.

      You can purchase and bill Couchbase Capella Credits through AWS Marketplace. You can manage invoices and payments using your AWS account.

      For more information about how to purchase Couchbase Capella Credits through the AWS Marketplace, contact Couchbase Sales.

      Up-Front Payments

      In the Capella UI, Couchbase Capella Credits are called pre-paid credits.

      When you purchase Couchbase Capella Credits up-front, they’re deposited in your organization’s account to give you a positive credit balance. Your credit balance updates once every calendar day and reflects the previous day’s cumulative usage across all operational clusters in your organization.

      You must purchase and deposit more credits into your organization’s account before your credit balance reaches 0. Your credits expire otherwise.

      Your organization’s billing contact receives an invoice for the purchased credits based on the currency equivalent outlined in your purchase agreement.

      On-Demand Payments

      When you purchase Couchbase Capella Credits on-demand, your organization does not have to maintain a positive credit balance. Instead, your organization is billed in arrears based on the credits you used in the previous calendar month.

      You can review your previous month’s usage at the start of each new calendar month.

      Your organization’s billing contact receives an invoice for your usage based on the currency equivalent outlined in your purchase agreement.

      Free Tier Plan

      Couchbase Capella operational offers one free tier operational cluster per organization. You have forever access to your account and active free operational cluster.

      Free tier is not available for Couchbase Columnar clusters.

      If you’re a free tier plan user, you’re only community-supported. For more information, see Support Overview

      To upgrade from a free tier plan, you need an Activation ID. To obtain an Activation ID, contact us.

      Purchased Couchbase Capella credits are automatically added to your Organization.

      An operational cluster’s Support Plan determines its capabilities and its support level. You can change a cluster’s plan at any time.

      For more information about changing your operational cluster’s plan, see Change a Cluster’s Plan and Support Timezone.

      For more information about the available Support Plans in Capella, see the Capella Support Policy.

      See Also