Overage billing
Overage allows your projects to use resources beyond your plan limits. When enabled, extra usage is billed as additional line items on your monthly invoice.
What is overage
Each Guara Cloud plan has defined limits for CPU, RAM, storage, and build minutes. If you need more resources than your plan offers without upgrading, overage lets you exceed those limits temporarily.
Overage is optional and never activated automatically (except on Enterprise). You decide when to enable it.
Availability by plan
| Plan | Overage |
|---|---|
| Hobby | Not available |
| Pro | Optional (per project) |
| Business | Optional (per project) |
| Enterprise | Included by default |
How to enable
Overage is enabled per project, not per account:
- Open the desired project in the dashboard.
- Go to the project Settings.
- Toggle Enable overage.
On the Enterprise plan, overage is enabled by default and cannot be disabled. On the Hobby plan, the option is not available.
Overage rates
All overage is billed at the end of the billing cycle based on metered usage:
| Resource | Price | Proration |
|---|---|---|
| Extra vCPU | R$40/vCPU/mo | Per hour |
| Extra RAM | R$20/GB/mo | Per hour |
| Extra storage | R$5/GB/mo | Per day |
| Extra build minutes | R$0.10/minute | No proration |
How the calculation works
CPU and RAM overage is prorated to the hour. This means you only pay for the time you actually used extra resources.
Example: If you are on the Pro plan and use an extra 0.5 vCPU for 12 days in a 30-day cycle:
0.5 vCPU x R$40/vCPU/mo x (12/30) = R$8.00Storage overage is prorated to the day. Build minutes are charged per minute consumed, with no proration.
Soft caps
To prevent bill shock, Guara Cloud applies soft caps on overage:
| Plan | Maximum overage |
|---|---|
| Pro | 2x the base plan limit |
| Business | 3x the base plan limit |
| Enterprise | No cap |
When the soft cap is reached, the behavior is the same as hitting your plan limit without overage — your services keep running, but new resources cannot be allocated. To go beyond the soft cap, you need to upgrade your plan.
Bandwidth and overage
Bandwidth is unlimited on all plans and is not part of the overage system. You are never charged for network traffic.