---
title: Understanding billing for Scaleway IP addresses
description: Learn how Scaleway bills flexible (public), and private IP addresses. Get help to understand your bill, with common questions answered.
tags: flexible-ip billing private-ip reserved-ip
dates:
  validation: 2025-11-04
  posted: 2025-06-26
---

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](/ipam/reference-content/public-connectivity-best-practices/#flexible-ip-addresses-definition). 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](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/network/#additional-ip). 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](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/) 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](/vpc/how-to/attach-resources-to-pn/), 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](/ipam/how-to/reserve-ip/) private IPs.