Purchasing a committed volume of services (CVoS)
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Updated at April 20, 2025
A committed volume of services (CVoS) is an agreement to receive a guaranteed discount for consuming a certain amount of Yandex Cloud services within 6 months or 1 year.
If you are sure that your consumption of the Yandex Cloud services is going to be stable and predictable, you can purchase a CVoS and save on your resource expenses. CVoS applies to all clouds of your billing account.
Purchasing a committed volume of services (CVoS)
Yandex Cloud Billing interface
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Go to Yandex Cloud Billing.
- Make sure your billing account consumption type is
Paid version. For more information about upgrading to the paid version, see Activating the paid version. - Make sure the user managing the billing account has the
billing.accounts.owner,editor, oradminrole. To learn more about roles, see Access management in Yandex Cloud Billing. - In the left-hand panel, select Committed volume.
- Review the offers:
- Select a service and click the section with the new offer.
- Select a platform.
- Use the service cost calculator: set the amount of resources and compare the cost when committing to 6 months and 1 year. Select the appropriate option.
- Check the terms of the selected agreement.
- Read the agreement. If you agree to the terms, check By clicking "Purchase commitment", I confirm that I have read, understood, and accepted the Terms.
- Click Purchase commitment.
After purchasing the CVoS and starting from its start date, the discount on the use of services is applied automatically. For more information, see Committed volume of services.