Reservations
Crusoe Cloud offers competitive on-demand pricing along with the ability to purchase longer-term reserved instance agreements in exchange for discounted pricing, by working with Crusoe Cloud sales.
If you have signed a reserved instance agreement, you can view its details and manage utilization through reservations. A reservation represents an active reserved instance agreement, typically for a fixed quantity of a specific instance type (e.g. 128 A100-80GB GPUs) valid for a defined period of time.
Once you have an active reservation in your organization, our system automatically applies your reserved capacity to any running instances of the matching product line. This means your reservation provides a total capacity allowance for a specific GPU product line (e.g. H100s or L40s). As you run VMs of that type, the number of GPUs you consume is counted against your reserved capacity.
Please note that unused capacity does not roll over. This means that reservations are not averaged over the month. Usage exceeding your reserved quantity at any moment is billed as on-demand, regardless of whether you used less than your reservation previously.
How Usage is Billed with Reservations
- If the number of GPUs you consume is at or below your reserved amount, you will not incur any on-demand charges for that product line.
- If your usage exceeds your reserved amount at any point, that usage will be billed at the on-demand rate or your pre-negotiated discounted rate.
- If you have multiple active reservations for the same product line, they are treated in aggregate. We will apply usage against the reservation with the lowest unit price first.
Example 1: You have a reservation for 256 H100 GPUs and you run 256 H100 GPUs for an hour. Your reservation covers your entire usage and none of your VMs will be charged on-demand rates.
Example 2: You have a reservation for 256 H100 GPUs and you run 256 H100 GPUs for 30 minutes and 300 H100 GPUs for 30 minutes. Your reservation covers a part of your usage, and you will be billed for 30 minutes $\times$ 44 GPUs at on-demand rates.
Example 3: You have a reservation for 256 H100 GPUs and you run 300 H100 GPUs for 30 minutes. Your reservation covers a part of your usage, and you will be billed for 30 minutes $\times$ 44 GPUs at on-demand rates, as these 44 GPUs are “over the line” of the 256 GPUs under your reservation.
Reservation Fields
Each reservation in your organization contains the following fields:
| Field Name | Description |
|---|---|
Reservation UUID | A unique UUID identifying a reservation, used across programmatic surfaces to specify a reservation. |
Reservation Name | A display name used to identify a reservation through the quantity, type, unit price and the first 8 UUID characters. e.g. '10 A100 GPUs - $1.35/hr - 06a2d842' |
Status | The state of the reservation. Can take any of the following values - 'Awaiting Delivery', 'Active' or 'Expired' |
Contract Start Date | The contract start date specified in your reserved instance agreement. |
Contract End Date | The contract end date specified in your reserved instance agreement. |
Usage | Reflects the total capacity of your reservation, along with how much is currently consumed by VMs associated with it. |
Unit Price | The unit price associated with the reservation GPU / vCPUs in your reserved instance agreement. |
Type | The instance type covered by the reservation. e.g. a100-80gb, c1a, h100, etc. |
Location Constraint | Specifies whether your reservation is constrained to a specific Crusoe Cloud region. |