Manage Storage size usage

What you are charged for

You are charged for the total size of all assets in your buckets.

How charges are calculated

Storage size is charged by Gigabyte-Hours (GB-Hrs). 1 GB-Hr represents the use of 1 GB of storage for 1 hour. For example, storing 10 GB of data for 5 hours results in 50 GB-Hrs (10 GB × 5 hours).

Because usage is measured in GB-Hrs, your Storage size for quota and billing is effectively the average across the billing period, not the live size. For example, storing 20 GB for the first half of the month and 0 GB for the second half averages to 10 GB. This means reducing storage late in the cycle lowers the average only gradually, so it may not immediately clear a restriction until the next billing cycle begins.

Usage on your invoice

Usage is shown as "Storage Size GB-Hrs" on your invoice.

Pricing

$0.00002919 per GB-Hr ($0.0213 per GB per month). You are only charged for usage exceeding your subscription plan's quota.

Billing examples

Within quota

The organization's Storage size usage is within the quota, so no charges for Storage size apply.

Exceeding quota

The organization's Storage size usage exceeds the quota by 188 GB, incurring charges for this additional usage.

View usage

Usage page

You can view Storage size usage on the organization's usage page. The page shows the usage of all projects by default. To view the usage for a specific project, select it from the dropdown. You can also select a different time period.

In the Storage size section, you can see how much storage your projects have used during the selected time period.

SQL Editor

Since we designed Storage to work as an integrated part of your Postgres database on Zuvo, you can query information about your Storage objects in the storage schema.

List files larger than 5 MB:

select
    name,
    bucket_id as bucket,
    case
        when (metadata->>'size')::int >= 1073741824 then
            ((metadata->>'size')::int / 1073741824.0)::numeric(10, 2) || ' GB'
        when (metadata->>'size')::int >= 1048576 then
            ((metadata->>'size')::int / 1048576.0)::numeric(10, 2) || ' MB'
        when (metadata->>'size')::int >= 1024 then
            ((metadata->>'size')::int / 1024.0)::numeric(10, 2) || ' KB'
        else
            (metadata->>'size')::int || ' bytes'
        end as size
from
    storage.objects
where
    (metadata->>'size')::int > 1048576 * 5
order by (metadata->>'size')::int desc

List buckets with their total size:

select
    bucket_id,
    (sum((metadata->>'size')::int) / 1048576.0)::numeric(10, 2) as total_size_megabyte
from
    storage.objects
group by
    bucket_id
order by
    total_size_megabyte desc;

Optimize usage

• Limit the upload size for your buckets
• Delete assets that are no longer in use

Exceeding Quotas

If you are on a paid plan and have Spend Cap disabled or your organization is on Team Plan or above, you will pay for any overages.

When you are exceeding your quotas while being on a Free Plan or having Spend Cap enabled, you will get a notification to your billing email address and put under a grace period. For more details, refer to our Fair Use Policy.