# Usage


Every paid plan includes an allowance of disk space and outbound bandwidth.
Disk and bandwidth beyond your allowance are measured over the billing cycle
and billed at the rates on [exe.dev/pricing](https://exe.dev/pricing), on the
invoice when your plan renews.

On Work, pool capacity beyond the included 2 vCPUs + 4 GiB across the team's
pools is also metered at $0.105 per 2 vCPU / 4 GiB unit-hour. See
[VM pools](/docs/pools). Pool usage, disk, bandwidth, credits, and taxes are
not discounted during the Work intro.

## Allowances by plan

- **[Personal](/docs/billing/personal):** one allowance for your account, shared by all of your VMs.
  Disk is 100 GB per 2 vCPU of your capacity. Bandwidth is 200 GB.
- **[Work](/docs/billing/work):** each pool has its own allowance, based on its configured
  capacity. Disk is 100 GB per 2 vCPU, averaged over the billing period.
  Bandwidth is 50 GB per vCPU per billing period, prorated by how long the
  capacity existed. A pool's allowance covers only that pool's VMs. Team VMs
  outside any pool have a separate allowance.
- **[Enterprise](/docs/enterprise):** disk and bandwidth are covered by your contract.
- **[Individual](/docs/billing/individual) and [Team](/docs/billing/team)
  (legacy):** Individual has one allowance for the account. On Team, each
  member gets their own allowance, shared across their VMs.

Adding VMs to your account or to a pool does not add allowance. On Work,
adding or growing a pool does, and a standalone VM carries its own while it
runs.

`billing usage` shows your VMs' usage against your plan. On a team, admins and
billing owners can see usage for each pool with `team usage` or at
[exe.dev/team/usage](https://exe.dev/team/usage).

## Compute

Standalone VMs, and Work pool capacity beyond your plan's included capacity,
are charged in unit-hours at $0.105 per unit-hour. One unit is 2 vCPUs with
4 GiB of memory. Time is measured by the second, from when the VM is created
until it stops or is deleted. There is no minimum charge.

For example, a 2 vCPU standalone VM (one unit) that runs for 10 seconds is
billed `1 unit × 10/3600 hours ≈ 0.0028 unit-hours`, or about $0.0003. An
8 vCPU standalone VM (four units) that runs for 15 minutes is billed
`4 units × 15/60 hours = 1 unit-hour`, or $0.105.

## Disk

Extra storage is charged in GiB-months at the rate on
[exe.dev/pricing](https://exe.dev/pricing). One GiB-month represents 1 GiB of
extra storage used for one full monthly billing cycle.

Storage use goes up and down, so we bill your average extra storage over the
cycle, not the peak.

For example, if a VM was active for 10 days of a 30-day billing cycle and
averaged 100 GiB of extra storage during that time, exe.dev bills
`100 GiB × 10/30 = 33.33 GiB-months`.

## Bandwidth

Bandwidth is a running total of **outbound** traffic across your VMs,
accumulated over the billing cycle. Outbound bandwidth is any traffic that
leaves exe.dev. Inbound traffic does not count.

At the end of the billing cycle, we compare the outbound bandwidth used with
your allowance. Extra bandwidth is measured in GiB (1 GiB = 1,073,741,824
bytes) and priced at the rate on [exe.dev/pricing](https://exe.dev/pricing).