Monitor your account usage
Check the usage breakdown of your account.
To find more details about your account usage:
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Navigate to cloud.elastic.co and log in to your Elastic Cloud account.
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Go to the user icon on the header bar and select Billing.
On the Usage page you can:
- Monitor the usage for the current month, including total hourly rate and month-to-date usage
- Check the usage breakdown for a selected time range
Important
The usage breakdown information is an estimate. To get the exact amount you owe for a given month, check your invoices in the billing history.
Elasticsearch minimum runtime VCUs
When you create an Elasticsearch Serverless project, a minimum number of VCUs are always allocated to your project to maintain basic ingest and search capabilities. These VCUs incur a minimum cost even with no active usage. Learn more about minimum VCUs on Elasticsearch Serverless.