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title: View the cost
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description: View how much cost has been incurred by an instance
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platform: cloud
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# View the cost
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At any time, you can see how much cost has been incurred by jobs associated with an instance.
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## View instance cost
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To determine how much has been billed to an instance during the current billing cycle, from the [Instances page](https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/instances), click the instance to open its details page.
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These fields are relevant to cost:
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- **Billing cycle usage**: Qiskit Runtime usage by this instance during the current billing cycle. This usage is the time counted by Qiskit Runtime to process a job, and is determined by the use of internal resources.
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- **Billing cycle cost**: The total cost of running jobs during the current billing cycle.
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- **Total usage**: Qiskit Runtime usage by this instance since it was created.
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- **Total cost**: The total cost of running jobs on this instance since it was created. Only administrators can set this value.
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You can view your billing cycle on the [IBM Cloud Billing and usage page.](https://cloud.ibm.com/billing)
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## View job cost
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To determine how much has been billed to each job associated with an instance, from the [Instances page](https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/instances), click the instance to open its details page. Next, on the left side, click Jobs.
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These are the columns relevant to cost:
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- **Usage**: Qiskit Runtime used by this job. This usage is the time counted by Qiskit Runtime to process a job, and is determined by the use of internal resources.
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- **Cost**: The total cost of running this job.
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## Next steps
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<Admonition type="tip" title="Recommendations">
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- To learn about how costs are incurred, see [Qiskit Runtime plans.](./setup-channel)
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- To learn how to limit costs, see [Manage costs.](./manage-cost)
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</Admonition> |