Learn about SLYD's billing system, understand your costs, and manage your usage effectively.
SLYD offers transparent, usage-based billing to ensure you only pay for the resources you actually use. The platform provides detailed tracking, notifications, and cost management tools to help you optimize your spending and stay within budget.
The SLYD billing model combines both pay-as-you-go and reservation-based approaches:
Pay only for the resources you consume, with pricing calculated based on:
Commit to longer rental periods in exchange for discounted rates:
You can estimate your costs before deploying resources using the SLYD Pricing Calculator:
SLYD provides comprehensive tools to monitor your usage and costs:
View up-to-the-minute resource usage and associated costs
Analyze usage patterns over time with detailed historical reports
Track costs by project, department, or custom categories
Download reports in CSV, PDF, or JSON formats
SLYD offers several features to help you manage and optimize your costs:
Set spending limits and receive notifications when thresholds are approached or exceeded.
Navigate to Billing & Usage > Budgets and click "Create Budget"
Set the budget amount, period (monthly, quarterly, yearly), and scope (account-wide or specific resources)
Set up notification thresholds (e.g., 50%, 80%, 90%, 100% of budget)
Select email, SMS, or in-platform notifications
Receive notifications based on usage patterns and anomalies.
Get notified when usage suddenly spikes or significantly deviates from historical patterns
Alerts for resources that exceed designated cost thresholds
Notifications for resources that are incurring costs but showing low utilization
Receive AI-powered suggestions from Benson AI to reduce unnecessary spending.
"Your Standard-4 instance 'web-server-prod3' has been running at less than 20% CPU utilization for the past 30 days. Consider downsizing to a Standard-2 instance to save approximately $27.50 per month."
"Your development instances are regularly active during nights and weekends but show minimal activity. Setting up an automatic shutdown schedule could save approximately $120 per month."
SLYD uses a monthly billing cycle with multiple payment options:
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover
Available for accounts with monthly spending over $500
For accounts with monthly spending under $1,000
Available for enterprise customers (contact sales)
SLYD provides detailed invoices with itemized breakdowns of all charges:
| Description | Quantity | Unit Price | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
Standard-4 Compute Instance (ID: inst-abc123)
4 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 100GB SSD |
720 hours | $0.12/hour | $86.40 |
Memory-8 Compute Instance (ID: inst-def456)
8 vCPU, 32GB RAM, 200GB SSD |
350 hours | $0.28/hour | $98.00 |
Persistent Storage
Additional SSD storage |
500 GB | $0.10/GB | $50.00 |
Data Transfer
Outbound traffic |
250 GB | $0.08/GB | $20.00 |
PostgreSQL License (ID: app-pgsql12)
Enterprise Edition |
1 month | $45.00 | $45.00 |
| Subtotal | $299.40 | ||
| Monthly Commitment Discount (20%) | -$59.88 | ||
| Total | $239.52 | ||
You can access your invoices and receipts from the Billing & Usage section of your dashboard:
Navigate to Billing & Usage > Invoices in your dashboard
Select an invoice to view its itemized breakdown and payment status
Download invoices in PDF or CSV format, or share them via email
For unpaid invoices, click "Pay Now" to process payment using your preferred method
Use tags to categorize and track costs across different projects, teams, or departments:
Tags are key-value pairs that you can assign to your resources, allowing you to organize and track costs based on your business structure.
Understand how resources are being utilized across different teams and projects
Allocate budgets more effectively based on historical usage patterns
Implement internal billing processes for different business units
Identify areas of excessive spending and opportunities for savings
Generate detailed reports showing costs broken down by tags:
Follow these recommendations to optimize your costs and manage your billing effectively:
If you have questions or need assistance with billing matters:
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