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Monk shows an estimated cost before anything is created, reports usage per cluster afterwards, and can alert you when spending passes a threshold.

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Before deploying: estimates

Every plan that creates machines shows an estimated cost in the local dashboard. You can also ask directly:
Estimates show the cloud provider’s cost for the machines in the plan. Monk adds nothing on top. Managed services such as Atlas or RDS, data transfer and storage growth are billed by their providers and may not be in the figure.

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After deploying: usage

Usage is reported per cluster as cloud provider cost.

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Billing alerts

Billing alerts are emails about clusters that run for a long time. You can turn the alert on or off and choose the address it goes to:
You can also change them in the web dashboard under Settings.

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What you review

Changing billing alerts opens an approval in the local dashboard. Every deploy, scale-up or new cluster shows its estimated cost before you approve it.

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Reducing cost

Common changes that lower the bill, each reviewed as a plan:

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Separate bills

Your cloud provider bills you for the machines. Monk bills its subscription by plan, with no fee on clusters. Your coding agent has its own subscription.

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