Billing

Hosted compute is prepaid. Top up your organization's balance, then OpenResearch deducts instance usage at the underlying provider rate with no OpenResearch markup.

Where to find it

Open the organization's Billing tab. It shows the current balance, in-flight compute charges, and recent activity. Click Top up to add funds.

What you're charged for

• Hosted instances are billed per millisecond while the provider machine is running. Charges accrue continuously and post in whole-cent slices.
• Persistent storage is billed from the organization's current storage footprint after the included allowance.
• Self-managed machines are billed directly by their provider and do not spend your OpenResearch balance.

In-flight compute

The In flight tile on the billing page shows an estimate of charges accumulating on currently running instances since their last billed tick.

Activity log

The Recent activity section shows top-ups, compute and storage charges, refunds, and manual adjustments. Positive entries add to your balance; negative entries deduct from it.

Running out of balance

A non-positive balance blocks new hosted instances. Billing continues to check running hosted instances and terminates them after the balance reaches zero, so top up before starting long workloads. Self-managed machines are unaffected; stop those with the provider or through your own tooling.