Guides
Billing
Transparent and simple: you pay your cloud provider directly for the metal, and Polnor bills only its margin on top, itemised so you can reconcile it against your provider invoice line by line.
The model
Polnor reads your provider's real usage, applies a margin multiplier, and that margin is what you owe Polnor.
| Case | Multiplier | Polnor's margin |
|---|---|---|
| On-demand (no commitment) | ×2.0 | 100% of provider cost |
| With an active commitment | ×1.7 | 70% of provider cost |
Usage & breakdown
A daily collector pulls your provider's real costs (compute, storage, snapshots, bandwidth, public IPs) and writes both the raw provider cost and the Polnor margin into usage records.
polnor billing usage --from 2026-06-01 --to 2026-06-12
GET /api/v1/settings/billing/invoicesInvoices
Invoices are generated monthly in euros and move through clear states: draft → sent → paid. Each line item is traceable, e.g. “compute_gpu, provider billed €1,842.50 × margin ×2.00 = Polnor margin €1,842.50”.
No card on file. Billing is manual invoicing by a European entity, invoices you can hand straight to finance. Questions: billing@polnor.net.
Estimates without a provider pull
For workspaces without provider billing configured, an hourly meter estimates cost from configurable rates (GPU/CPU compute, warehouse, endpoint hours) so you always have a running figure.