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Storage Pricing (Financial Controls)
Start Here
- Open Financial Controls from the Control Panel sidebar.
- Select the Storage Pricing tab [route: /dashboard/billing?tab=storage|Storage Pricing tab].
- Review each Meter row (dataset and document GiB-month meters).
- Set Price / GiB-month and confirm Active is enabled for meters you bill against.
- Click Save storage pricing.
- Have a tenant owner confirm the Storage line on Observability → Billing after retained content accumulates.
Why this matters
Inference pricing does not include long-lived datasets and documents. Storage meters apply a deployment-wide unit price per gibibyte-month so infrastructure-credit burn and tenant billing analytics can show retention cost separately from model tokens.
Details
Storage pricing is configured on /dashboard/billing (tab storage). It is independent of Model Pricing and Infrastructure Balance base-fee settings on the same page.
Default storage meters
GT AI OS ships two hot-storage meters (meter keys are fixed; operators edit display name, unit price, unit label, and active flag):
| Meter key | Default display name | Unit |
|---|---|---|
storage.dataset_hot_gib_month |
Dataset storage | USD per GiB-month |
storage.document_hot_gib_month |
Document storage | USD per GiB-month |
The page header summarizes Current configured storage-price total as the sum of active row Price / GiB-month values (a quick sanity check, not a forecast of tenant usage).
Editing unit prices
For each meter card:
| Field | Editable | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Meter | No | Stable identifier consumed by metering (storage.dataset_hot_gib_month, etc.) |
| Display name | Yes | Operator-facing label on this page |
| Price / GiB-month | Yes | Dollar amount charged per GiB-month of retained hot storage |
| Unit | Yes | Display string (default USD per GiB-month) |
| Active | Yes | When disabled, the meter should not apply active pricing |
Enter prices with up to six decimal places (step="0.000001"). Click Save storage pricing to persist; there is no separate “reset online” for storage—policy is fully operator-defined.
Example starting posture (adjust for your environment):
| Meter | Example price / GiB-month |
|---|---|
| Dataset storage | 0.15 |
| Document storage | 0.02 |
Relationship to tenant Billing → Storage
| Surface | Role |
|---|---|
| Control Panel Storage Pricing | Sets deployment-wide unit rates per meter |
| Tenant Observability → Storage tab | Usage and retention analytics (GiB footprint, trends) |
| Tenant Observability → Billing tab (owners only) | Settled spend breakdown including Storage alongside inference |
Tenant users and managers do not configure prices; they consume analytics. Only tenant owners see Billing. After you change storage unit prices, owners should refresh Billing over a window where dataset/document retention is non-zero to confirm the Storage line moves with policy.
Model inference charges on the same Billing view come from Model Pricing; do not duplicate storage cost in per-model token fields.
Best practices
- Set storage prices when billing is enabled and you expect chargeback for retained datasets/documents.
- Keep dataset and document meters on different rates if your cost model treats embeddings corpora vs uploaded files differently.
- Document internal rationale in Financial Controls Financial details or change tickets—not in tenant-visible copy.
- Review tenant Storage tab utilization before raising unit prices (identify stale datasets driving GiB-month burn).
- Coordinate with Models embedding defaults when dataset storage grows after catalog changes.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Check |
|---|---|
| Billing Storage line is zero | Financial controls enabled; meter Active; save succeeded; retention actually present in tenant Storage tab |
| Storage total on CP page looks wrong | Sum is unit-price catalog only—verify each Price / GiB-month, not tenant GiB usage |
| Owners cannot see billing | Role must be tenant owner; managers never receive Billing tab per Observability |
GT Helper
Ask GT Helper:
- “What is the difference between dataset and document storage meters?”
- “Where do tenant owners see storage charges?”
- “How do I disable storage billing for a meter?”