Billing, metering and chargeback

Link private cloud usage to billing and financial management, with runtime and capacity metering reported by tenant, customer or department.

See it in action

Tenant billing and usage for October: a total cost of £8.75, made up of £2.99 for VMs (vCPU and RAM hours) and £5.76 for disks (GB hours), with filters by account, resource group and component and a cost breakdown by account.

Key benefits

  • Clear sight of usage and cost, for better decisions

  • Billing views for every CSP and MSP customer

  • Costs assigned to departments with less manual effort

  • Resource use linked to business reports, for predictable spending

  • Standard metering and summaries, not error-prone monthly billing

  • Usage and cost data to support private cloud business cases

Feature breakdown

  1. Runtime and capacity-based metering

    Usage is measured by what actually runs, tracking both runtime and capacity rather than fixed allocations. Billing and governance data reflect real service use.

  2. Usage summaries

    Finance, operations and service teams work from the same view of usage over time. Providers avoid billing disputes, and enterprise IT gets clearer cost discussions.

  3. Tenant and customer reporting

    Separate usage by tenant, customer, service and contract, without custom processes for each account. Reporting scales as you grow.

  4. Departmental showback and chargeback

    Match infrastructure use to department responsibility, so IT runs as a managed service with clear value. That helps teams moving away from VMware or many separate tools keep costs predictable.

What it means in practice

Use billing as a service growth enabler, not an administrative burden.

Turn usage into revenue