Understanding billing for Scaleway IP addresses
This document aims to help you understand how Scaleway bills public and private IP addresses.
Public IP addresses - flexible IPs
Public connectivity for CPU & GPU Instances, Elastic Metal, Load Balancers and Public Gateways is facilitated by a flexible IP address. A flexible IP address is a public IP address that you can attach and detach from the resource at will.
- Flexible IP addresses are billed separately to the resources they are attached to.
- Hourly rates for different types of flexible IP addresses can be found on the Scaleway pricing page. Note that while flexible IPv4 addresses are generally billable, flexible IPv6 addresses are often free.
- Hourly billing for a flexible IP begins when you reserve it and ends when you delete it from your account. It is billed even if it is not attached to a resource.
Other types of public IP
Depending on the resource type, it may have possibilities for other types of public IP other than a flexible IP. Billing will therefore be different: many of these types of IP are free (e.g. public endpoints for Managed Databases).
For the most up-to-date information on hourly rates, always check the pricing page or the Estimated cost calculator that displays in the Scaleway console whenever you create a resource.
Private IP addresses
Whenever you attach a resource to a Private Network, it gets a private IPv4 and/or IPv6 address on that network.
Private IP addresses at Scaleway are always free of charge. This applies to both auto-allocated and IPAM-reserved private IPs.