# Pricing

> Understand the costs associated with uptime monitoring for your applications.

## Uptime monitoring pricing

Uptime monitoring is a paid add-on feature billed based on usage.

### Cost

Uptime monitoring costs **EUR 2.50 per month** per application (approximately EUR 0.003 per hour).

### How billing works

Uptime monitoring is billed hourly as part of your regular Ploi Cloud usage:

- Charges start when you enable monitoring
- Charges stop when you disable monitoring
- You're only charged for the time monitoring is active
- Billing is included in your monthly usage statement

### Example scenarios

**Single application, full month**
- 1 application with monitoring enabled
- 720 hours (30 days)
- Cost: EUR 2.50

**Multiple applications**
- 3 applications with monitoring enabled
- Full month
- Cost: EUR 7.50 (3 x EUR 2.50)

**Partial month**
- 1 application with monitoring enabled
- Enabled on the 15th of the month
- Approximately 360 hours
- Cost: ~EUR 1.25

### Viewing monitoring costs

You can see your uptime monitoring costs in several places:

**Application costs modal**
- Click the costs icon on your application
- See the monitoring cost in the breakdown

**Usage page**
- Go to your team's Usage page
- View monitoring costs in the billing breakdown
- See per-application monitoring charges

### Cost optimization

To manage your monitoring costs:

- Only enable monitoring for production applications
- Disable monitoring for staging or development applications
- Review monitored applications regularly

### What's included

The monthly cost includes:

- 24/7 uptime monitoring
- 1-minute check intervals
- SSL certificate monitoring
- Mixed content detection
- Performance tracking
- Unlimited alert notifications
- Historical data retention