Quota costs, billing, and limits

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cloud.gov usage is billed by org memory quota.

Costs

The cost is $130 per GB of memory reserved per month, with no limit except the quota you set.

You set your memory quota in advance. This helps you control the maximum amount that your team will spend, and helps us avoid over-provisioning resources that won’t be used.

(Sandboxes offer resource usage for free, but it is capped at 1 GB of RAM.)

Billing

Quotas are associated with and billed to a project IAA number or equivalent billing tag. Quotas are billed by the amount of memory reserved and tallied monthly.

What quotas limit

Quotas provide a not-to-exceed reservation of memory, which you set at the amount appropriate to your usage. In the underlying technical system, quotas also limit number of application routes and service instances, but you can request an expansion of those limits at any time.

Quotas limit the following resources:

• Number of application routes
• Amount of application memory
• Number of service instances

If a new application push would exceed your organization’s quota, the request will fail with status code 400 and a message that describes the limit that would be exceeded.

Example:

Creating app APPLICATION in org ORG / space SPACE as USER… FAILED Server error, status code: 400, error code: 100007, message: You have exceeded the instance memory limit for your organization’s quota.

In this situation you have three options:

1. Delete existing resources with cf delete, delete-service, delete-route or similar.
2. Reconfigure individual existing application quotas and redeploy.
3. Request a quota change by asking support. You can request an increase in number of routes or service instances with no cost impact. Increasing memory quota changes your costs (as described above).