View the cost

At any time, you can see how much cost has been incurred by jobs associated with an instance.

View instance cost

To determine how much has been billed to an instance during the current billing cycle, from the Instances page, click the instance to open its details page.

These fields are relevant to cost:

• Billing cycle usage: Qiskit Runtime usage by this instance during the current billing cycle. This usage is the time counted by Qiskit Runtime to process a job, and is determined by the use of internal resources.
• Billing cycle cost: The total cost of running jobs during the current billing cycle.
• Total usage: Qiskit Runtime usage by this instance since it was created.
• Total cost: The total cost of running jobs on this instance since it was created. Only administrators can set this value.

You can view your billing cycle on the IBM Cloud Billing and usage page.

View job cost

To determine how much has been billed to each job associated with an instance, from the Instances page, click the instance to open its details page. Next, on the left side, click Jobs.

These are the columns relevant to cost:

• Usage: Qiskit Runtime used by this job. This usage is the time counted by Qiskit Runtime to process a job, and is determined by the use of internal resources.
• Cost: The total cost of running this job.

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