Managing your costs with our billing alarm feature
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Created by: Julia Bauer
Modified on: Wed, 11 Jan, 2023 at 9:41 PM
Why do I need a billing alarm?
To stay on top of your GPU usage costs and keep track of your costs to train you can set a certain threshold value. At Genesis Cloud, you pay for the actual instance usage per minute. Once your instances are up and running you should set up a billing alarm. This way you will receive an email as soon as the instance usage has reached a certain amount.
Please note that the billing alarm is an information tool but will not automatically stop your instance once you’ve reached a certain threshold value.
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How can I set up a billing alarm?
- open the Billing page on your GC console
- on top you see a box called “Billing Alarm”
- click on “Add alarm” and toggle the Billing threshold slider into the active position
- define the threshold value in USD in the set box
- click on “Save”
- to edit or check the set amount at a later stage click on “Edit alarm” in the Billing Alarm box

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