Instance hour
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- Unit
- Hour (rounded up), capped monthly
- Aliases
- hourly billing; monthly cap
- Definition
- Akamai Cloud Billing: "When you add a service, charges accrue on the account at the hourly rate up to the monthly cap." Usage is always rounded up to the nearest hour.
- Counting rules
- Every service present on the account accrues charges, including powered-off Linodes. A resize creates a new billable line item. From 2026-07-01 G8 dedicated Linodes, GPU Linodes and additional IPv4 addresses are billed for actual hours with no monthly cap.
- Floors / minimums
- None; billed per hour up to the monthly cap where one exists.
- Applies to products
- Akamai Cloud Linodes
- NodeBalancers
- Block Storage
- Backups