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How the hourly price is calculated: monthly cap, items and examples

Balance and Spending 12 views Step-by-step guide Last verified: Markdown
What you will learnHow the hourly price is derived, what the monthly cap does, which items are charged separately and how to calculate the cost of any service before you order.
Time7 minutes
Who this is forAnyone who wants to know the cost in advance.
What you needNothing (the gyro command-line tool is optional).

1. The basic formula

  • Hourly price = monthly price ÷ 672. (672 = 28 days × 24 hours.)
  • Every hour that starts is charged up front: at the start of the hour that amount is taken from your balance.
  • Prices are based on euros and exclude VAT. At the time of the charge they are converted to TRY at that day's rate. The euro price is fixed; the TRY amount moves with the rate.
  • Hours follow Istanbul time (Europe/Istanbul).

2. The monthly cap

In one calendar month the total you pay for an item never exceeds its monthly price. After the item has been charged for 672 hours, the rest of the month is free; the counter resets at the start of the next month. So running a server all month costs the same as the monthly price, while running it briefly costs only the hours you used.

Info

The cap is per item: the server, an extra disk and an extra IP each have their own cap.

3. Step by step: calculate the cost of a service

  1. Find the monthly price of the service (tables in section 4, or the product page).
  2. Divide it by 672: that is the hourly price.
  3. Add the hourly prices of extra items (extra disk, extra IP, extra snapshot, network firewall) the same way.
  4. Multiply by the hours you will run; the cap applies to anything beyond 672 hours in a month.

The panel and the command line do this for you:

bash
gyro billing estimate --plan standart-2-4 --count 2

The output shows the hourly, daily and monthly (capped) cost and how many hours your balance lasts. To see your balance:

bash
gyro billing balance get

4. Price tables (excluding VAT, € — TRY at the current rate)

Gyro Cloud Istanbul (priced the same as Turkey VDS):

Plan vCPU / RAM / NVMe Monthly cap Hourly (approx.)
standart-1-2 1 / 2 GB / 35 GB 3.49 € 0.0052 €
standart-2-4 2 / 4 GB / 50 GB 5.99 € 0.0089 €
standart-4-6 4 / 6 GB / 70 GB 8.49 € 0.0126 €
standart-4-8 4 / 8 GB / 100 GB 10.49 € 0.0156 €
standart-6-12 6 / 12 GB / 130 GB 14.99 € 0.0223 €
standart-6-16 6 / 16 GB / 200 GB 17.99 € 0.0268 €
standart-8-24 8 / 24 GB / 250 GB 21.99 € 0.0327 €
standart-8-32 8 / 32 GB / 300 GB 26.49 € 0.0394 €

Gyro Containers: an environment fee of 4.99 €/month plus the monthly price of the node plan for each node (the node price equals the server plans above).

Package Contents Monthly cap
Starter 1 node · 2 vCPU / 4 GB 10.98 € (4.99 + 5.99)
Standard 2 nodes · 2 vCPU / 4 GB 16.97 € (4.99 + 2 × 5.99)
Pro 3 nodes · 4 vCPU / 8 GB 36.46 € (4.99 + 3 × 10.49)

Image registry: 2 GB free per environment; above that 0.05 €/GB per month (calculated hourly). Example: a 3.4 GB registry = (3.4 − 2) × 0.05 = 0.07 €/month.

Info

Add-ons such as the network firewall are also calculated hourly on prepaid services; you see the price on the add-on page and on the Spending page. An Istanbul server includes 1 free snapshot; additional snapshots are charged hourly (the price is shown in the panel).

A worked example

Assumption (example only): 1 € = 56 TRY. A standart-2-4 server ran 100 hours in the month and was then deleted.

  • Hourly: 5.99 ÷ 672 = 0.00891 € ≈ 0.50 TRY
  • 100 hours: 0.891 € ≈ 49.9 TRY (excluding VAT, deducted from the balance)

If the same server had run all month: 672 hours × 0.00891 = 5.99 € ≈ 335 TRY; everything after the 672nd hour would be free.

5. Frequently asked questions

Does the charge stop if I power the server off?

No. A powered-off but not deleted server is charged in full; its resources stay reserved for you. Delete the service to stop the charge (Stopping and deleting a prepaid service).

If I delete in the middle of an hour, is that hour refunded?

No. The hour was charged up front and is not refunded; no new hour starts after deletion.

Does the cap reset at the start of a month?

Yes. The cap follows the calendar month (Istanbul time) and starts again on the 1st at 00:00.

What if the exchange rate changes?

The euro price is fixed. The TRY amount is calculated at the rate when each hour is charged; the Spending page shows the rate of every row.

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