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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.
  • Prices are rounded to a minimum amount of €0.01 on a per-IP basis. This means that if you keep a given flexible IP for only a short duration (less than a day), its billing may be higher than you expect. See example below.
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Rounding of hourly billing for flexible IP addresses


The following scenario exemplifies the rounding used. Note that you should always check the Scaleway pricing page for the most up-to-date hourly rates.


  • A flexible IPv4 address is billed, for example, at €0.004 per hour
  • You create three flexible IP addresses at 3pm and delete them all 1 hour later at 4pm
  • Cost incurred per IP address is therefore 0.0004 x 1 = €0.0004
  • As this does not meet the minimum billable amount of €0.01, the cost for each IP is rounded to €0.01
  • You will therefore be charged 3 x 0.01 = €0.03

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.

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