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Usage and billing

This section explains how to manage usage and billing within your Axiom organization.

Billing

To view details about your next and last bill, go to Settings > Billing.

The Current breakdown section explains what you paid for in your last bill and what you can expect to pay for in your next bill.

View billing history

To view details about your billing history:

  1. Go to Settings > Billing.
  2. In the Current breakdown section, click Billing history.

Compute credits

You can save on compute spending by pre-purchasing compute credits. This means that you purchase credits in advance at a discount. The more credits you purchase, the higher the discount rate. For more information, see Pricing.

Your compute credits can cover the following costs:

  • Data loading
  • Query compute

Your compute credits can’t cover the following costs:

  • Your pricing plan
  • Add-ons
  • Storage

To purchase compute credits:

  1. Ensure you have permissions to modify billing. For more information, see Role-Based Access Control.
  2. Go to Settings > Billing.
  3. In the Compute credits section, click Add credits.
  4. Enter the amount of credits you want to purchase.
  5. Review the total cost.
  6. Click Buy credits.
  7. Complete the purchase.

Spending limit

Setting a monthly spending limit allows you to control costs.

Even if you reach your spending limit, you can still initiate purchases manually such as buying add-ons and credits.

To set a monthly spending limit:

  1. Ensure you have permissions to modify billing. For more information, see Role-Based Access Control.
  2. Go to Settings > Billing.
  3. In the Limit section, click Manage limit.
  4. Turn on Set monthly spending limit.
  5. Enter the maximum monthly spending.
  6. Click Save changes.

Pricing plan

View plan details

To view details about your current plan:

  1. Go to Settings > Plan.
  2. Click License.

This page gives you an overview of the allowances included in your plan and your current monthly usage.

Upgrade or downgrade plan

To upgrade or downgrade your plan:

  1. Ensure you have permissions to modify billing. For more information, see Role-Based Access Control.
  2. Go to Settings > Plan.
  3. Click More > Upgrade or More > Downgrade.

Manage add-ons

You can manage the following add-ons:

To manage add-ons:

  1. Ensure you have permissions to modify billing. For more information, see Role-Based Access Control.
  2. Go to Settings > Plan.
  3. Click the add-on area.
  4. Select or deselect add-ons.
  5. Review the updated base monthly cost.
  6. Click Update add-ons.

Usage

To view details about your organization’s total usage of Axiom:

  1. Click Settings > Usage.
  2. To select the period for which you want to display usage, click Time range.

The Usage page displays:

  • Ingest: The total amount of data ingested to Axiom.
  • Query: The total amount of query compute resources used to run queries.
  • Fields: The number of fields in each of your datasets.

Monitor usage in detail

For more granular usage monitoring, query the audit log. The audit log captures hourly usage data and allows you to:

  • Track ingestion by dataset over time.
  • Identify high-cost queries.
  • Monitor which monitors consume the most query resources.
  • Detect ingestion spikes.