Yandex Cloud Backup pricing policy
Warning
The prices for Yandex BareMetal backups and their storage will be effective starting April 14, 2025.
To calculate the cost of using the service, see the prices in this section.
The prices for service's products are also available in the Price list.
What goes into the cost of using Cloud Backup
The cost of Cloud Backup depends on the number of resources to back up, such as Yandex Compute Cloud VMs and Yandex BareMetal servers, and the total storage space used by backups.
Resource protection
You start paying for a VM or a BareMetal server in Cloud Backup as soon as you link it to a backup policy. Regardless of the resource status, you will be charged for the resource until you unlink it from the policy.
If you delete a VM in Yandex Compute Cloud using the management console, this will also unlink such a VM from all policies. If you delete a VM using the CLI, Terraform, or API, it will not be unlinked from policies automatically. You need to unlink it yourself.
If you need to unlink a BareMetal from a policy, you will still have to do it on your own.
The minimum billing unit is one resource (VM or BareMetal server) to back up, per hour.
Using storage
You are charged for the total size of storage used by backups.
The minimum billing unit is 1 hour of storing 1 MB of data.
In all calculations: 1 GB = 230 bytes, 1 MB = 220 bytes.
If a protected resource is stopped or deleted, its backups are still stored in Cloud Backup and you continue to pay for their volume stored. The backup size depends on the following:
- VM or BareMetal server disk usage
- Amount of data updated during regular backups
- Data compression option
Note
To optimize your costs, consider removing the backups of the deleted VMs or the BareMetal servers you stopped renting.
The size of protected resource backups can fall short of the resource disk size, e.g., if the disk usage is low and the level of data compression is high, or exceed it, e.g., when there are many backups and their data is continuously modified and poorly compressed.
Prices for the Russia region
Warning
Prices for Yandex Cloud resources vary from region to region. For more information about the available regions, see Regions.
The currency that can be used to pay for resources depends on which legal entity the user has entered into agreement with. For more information about account registration, see Registering an account in Yandex Cloud.
The monthly prices are based on 720 hours per month.
Protected Cloud Backup resources
| Resource category | Cost of 1 resource (per month), without VAT |
|---|---|
| VM connected to Cloud Backup | $1.910400 |
Backup storage
| Service | Cost of 1 GB per month, without VAT |
|---|---|
| Backup storage for VM | $0.033600 |
Cost calculation example
Here is an example of calculating the cost of Cloud Backup for one month for the following configuration:
- One VM is linked to backup policies.
- Total size of backups is 50 GB.
1 VM × $1.910400 + 50 GB × $0.033600 = $3.590400
Total: $3.590400, cost of using Cloud Backup to protect 1 VM with a total of 50 GB of backups per month, without VAT.
Where:
- 1: Number of VMs linked to backup policies.
- $1.910400: Price of connecting 1 VM to Cloud Backup per month, without VAT.
- 50 GB: Total size of backups.
- $0.033600: Price of storing 1 GB of backups per month, without VAT.