# Pricing

View resource pricing for compute flavors and storage types in your region.

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## Usage

```bash
ace pricing [--currency <code>]
```

**Aliases:** `price`

### Flags

| Flag         | Default     | Description                              |
| ------------ | ----------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| `--currency` | auto-detect | Currency code: `INR`, `USD`, `EUR`, etc. |

By default, the CLI auto-detects the currency from your region/account. Use `--currency` to override.

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## Examples

**Auto-detect currency:**

```bash
ace pricing
```

**Specific currency:**

```bash
ace pricing --currency USD
ace pricing --currency INR
ace pricing --currency EUR
```

**JSON output:**

```bash
ace pricing -o json
```

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## Output Format

Pricing is grouped into **Compute** (flavors with vCPUs) and **Storage** (volume types).

**Example output:**

```
Pricing (INR)

COMPUTE
  FLAVOR                         PRICE/HR     PRICE/MO   VCPUS      RAM   GPU
  ACE.CPU.1C2R                   INR2.5000   INR1800.00      1     2 GB
  ACE.CPU.2C4R                   INR5.0000   INR3600.00      2     4 GB
  ACE.CPU.4C16R                  INR15.0000  INR10800.00     4    16 GB
  ACE.GPU.A100                   INR200.0000 INR144000.00    8    64 GB   1x NVIDIA A100

STORAGE
  TYPE                           PRICE/HR     PRICE/MO
  NVMe based High IOPS Storage  INR0.0417    INR30.00
  Standard HDD Storage           INR0.0139    INR10.00
```

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## Fields

### Compute

| Field    | Description                         |
| -------- | ----------------------------------- |
| FLAVOR   | Flavor/instance type name           |
| PRICE/HR | Hourly rate in selected currency    |
| PRICE/MO | Monthly rate in selected currency   |
| VCPUS    | Number of virtual CPU cores         |
| RAM      | Memory allocation in GB             |
| GPU      | GPU count and model (if applicable) |

### Storage

| Field    | Description              |
| -------- | ------------------------ |
| TYPE     | Volume/storage type name |
| PRICE/HR | Hourly rate per GB       |
| PRICE/MO | Monthly rate per GB      |

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## Global Flags

| Flag           | Description                                |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| `-o, --output` | Output format: `table` (default) or `json` |
| `--project`    | Override project ID                        |
| `--region`     | Override region                            |


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