InfluxDB Cloud Pricing FAQ

Pricing is based on your usage of InfluxDB Cloud. There are no upfront costs or long-term commitments and you pay only for what you use. Your monthly usage is calculated based on the following four vectors:

• Data In: The total amount of uncompressed data ingested (measured in MB) in InfluxDB Cloud via line protocol, the API, the client libraries, or Telegraf.
• Query Count: The total count of individual query executions as generated by Dashboards, Tasks, Alerts, Data Explorer, etc. Measured in queries per month.
• Storage (GB- hour): Storage, measured in GB-hour, consumed by the data retained in your InfluxDB Cloud account. For example, 10 GB stored for 1 hour, and 1 GB stored for 10 hours, are both counted as 10 GB-hours.
• Data Out: the total volume of data returned to the user in response to queries (measured in GB per month).

You can track your total accrued charges calendar month to date by going to the Usage page and clicking on the Billing link within InfluxDB Cloud. There, you can also review your usage history for the past 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days for all the usage vectors.

A query execution can be broadly defined as the total number of individual queries, tasks, alert checks, and data explorer activities. More specifically it is defined as the total number of API requests coming into InfluxDB Cloud. This can include, but are not limited to, explicit query requests coming from:

• InfluxDB browser clients, running features such as Data Explorer and Dashboards
• InfluxDB client libraries for JavaScript, Python, Go, etc.
• Third-party apps, such as Grafana
• InfluxDB CLI, the command line interface run from a terminal
• Queries posted via InfluxDB HTTP API, using a tool such as curl
• Tasks and Alert Checks running in the InfluxDB Cloud account

Query executions include queries run both in Flux and in InfluxQL.

Query Count is based on the total number of individual query executions generated by the activities above. For example, an Alert Check running every 5 minutes will incur 288 billable query executions per day, and 8,640 query executions in a 30-day month.

Billing cycles correspond to calendar month. You will be billed early in the following calendar month for the usage incurred during the previous calendar month. If you activated the Usage-Based Plan option in the middle of a month, your billing cycle will start on that day and end on the last day of that calendar month.

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Here is what you can expect upon failure of payments on your account:

To cancel your service, please contact [email protected]. Your payment method will be charged immediately upon cancellation of the service. You can also pause the service as well as request a backup of your data.

Self-Service Pause

You can stop sending all of your writes and queries to the InfluxDB Cloud service at any time and halt incurring additional charges (if applicable). However, you will continue to pay for storage. If you do not require a backup of your data, you can delete the buckets associated with your account to prevent additional charges.

Backup of Data

If you require a backup of your data upon the cancellation of your service, your bill will be prorated from the time of service cancellation to ensure that you only pay for what you used while we backup your data. As part of your cancellation request, please indicate that you would like a backup of your data and our support team will coordinate providing that with you.