ZCP Pricing V2: Compute and Storage Sold Separately

Starting today, every ZCP virtual machine plan covers CPU and memory only. The root disk is a block storage volume that you size when you create the server. It is billed on its own line at the per-GB rate of the plan’s storage tier.

Why we changed it

Customers asked for more flexibility. A bundled disk meant a small app paid for space it never used. A database that outgrew its disk had to change plan to get more.

AWS and Azure price servers this way. More CPU should not force you to buy more storage.

What changed

• Plan names now carry a c before the size, for example ca2c.m. That is 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM in Montreal (YUL) on b2.g1 (shared replicated NVMe) at $24.80 per month.
• Review and Deploy shows separate lines for compute, network, public IP, and the block storage root disk.
• The minimum root disk is the template size, about 10 GB for Linux templates. You can grow it at any time. It never shrinks.
• Custom CPU and RAM plans are retired. You pick from fixed sizes.

Root disk rates per GB per month, in CAD:

A worked example

The old bundled ca2.m plan was $36 per month with an 80 GB disk. Today:

• ca2c.m compute: $24.80
• 80 GB root disk on b2.g1 at $0.14 per GB: $11.20
• Total: $36.00

Pick the same root size on the default tier and you pay the same total as before. Pick a smaller disk and you pay less. A network plan costs $3 per month. The public IP is billed on its own line.

Existing customers

Servers you already run keep their plan and their price. Nothing moves unless you ask it to.

CLI and Terraform

ZCP CLI v1.0.0, released today, sets the root disk at create time with --blockstorage-plan and --root-disk-size. A matching Terraform provider update for fixed plans is coming. Until it ships, create servers that need a sized root disk in the console or with the CLI. We will update the roadmap when the provider release is out.

See the pricing page for the full plan list and the calculator, which now takes a root disk size.