About Vertex AI Billing

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There are four things I would like to know about Vertex AI billing.

  1. Is the 300$/month fee for Vertex AI Tensorboard a one-time charge?
  2. How can I get a breakdown of Vertex AI fees? I would like to know the fee per pipeline and endpoint.
  3. Is there any lag in billing? I started up Tensorboard instance on the 26th, but it looks like I was billed on the 25th.
  4. If I activate Tensorboard on 6/26, am I correct that I will not be billed until 7/26?
    Please tell me additionally, is Tensorboard instance pay-as-you-go billing? Is the cost per month 300$ no matter how much you use?
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Hi @YoshinaoMori ,

Thank you for reaching out to Google Cloud Community, below are insights and resource documents for your perusal.

Vertex AI TensorBoard charges a monthly fee of $300 per unique active user even if they only use Vertex AI TensorBoard for one day in a given month- You can refer to this published Vertex AI Pricing document or this Pricing Calculator to help you with costing
When you deploy to an endpoint, you are billed per node hour for each node in your endpoint. All compute associated with the endpoint is charged at same rate as prediction> Vertex AI Pipelines charges a run execution fee of $0.03 per Pipeline Run. You are not charged the execution fee during the Preview release- For more billing-related information, you can connect with the Google Cloud Billing Support team

I hope these resources helped.

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  1. The $300/month fee for Vertex AI Tensorboard is a recurring monthly charge, not a one-time fee.

  2. To get a breakdown of Vertex AI fees, you can review the billing details in your Google Cloud Console. It should provide information about the fees associated with each pipeline and endpoint.

  3. Billing for Tensorboard and other services typically begins when the resources are provisioned, not when they are started. So, it’s possible that you were billed on the 25th due to the provisioning of the Tensorboard instance, even if you started it on the 26th.

  4. If you activate Tensorboard on 6/26, you will be billed based on your usage from 6/26 to 7/26. The billing is based on the duration of usage, not a fixed monthly cycle.

Regarding Tensorboard instance billing, it is based on a pay-as-you-go model. The $300/month fee is the base cost, but you will be additionally charged based on your actual usage. The cost can vary depending on how much you use it.

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@lsolatorio

Thanks for the response!

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@elsaqazi

I have an additional question, other than the $300 base fee, what is the cost of using a Tensorboard instance? I couldn’t find any documentation, is there just a storage fee for Cloud Storage? Is there just a storage fee for Cloud Storage or is there a fee for the machine specs?

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