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Gen3 Admin Financial Controls Storage Pricing

GT AI OS Release edited this page Jun 3, 2026 · 3 revisions

Storage Pricing (Financial Controls)

Start Here

  1. Open Financial Controls from the Control Panel sidebar.
  2. Select the Storage Pricing tab [route: /dashboard/billing?tab=storage|Storage Pricing tab].
  3. Review each Meter row (dataset and document GiB-month meters).
  4. Set Price / GiB-month and confirm Active is enabled for meters you bill against.
  5. Click Save storage pricing.
  6. Have a tenant owner confirm the Storage line on ObservabilityBilling after retained content accumulates.

Why this matters

Inference pricing does not include long-lived datasets and documents. Storage meters apply a deployment-wide unit price per gibibyte-month so infrastructure-credit burn and tenant billing analytics can show retention cost separately from model tokens.

Details

Storage pricing is configured on /dashboard/billing (tab storage). It is independent of Model Pricing and Infrastructure Balance base-fee settings on the same page.

Default storage meters

GT AI OS ships two hot-storage meters (meter keys are fixed; operators edit display name, unit price, unit label, and active flag):

Meter key Default display name Unit
storage.dataset_hot_gib_month Dataset storage USD per GiB-month
storage.document_hot_gib_month Document storage USD per GiB-month

The page header summarizes Current configured storage-price total as the sum of active row Price / GiB-month values (a quick sanity check, not a forecast of tenant usage).

Editing unit prices

For each meter card:

Field Editable Purpose
Meter No Stable identifier consumed by metering (storage.dataset_hot_gib_month, etc.)
Display name Yes Operator-facing label on this page
Price / GiB-month Yes Dollar amount charged per GiB-month of retained hot storage
Unit Yes Display string (default USD per GiB-month)
Active Yes When disabled, the meter should not apply active pricing

Enter prices with up to six decimal places (step="0.000001"). Click Save storage pricing to persist; there is no separate “reset online” for storage—policy is fully operator-defined.

Example starting posture (adjust for your environment):

Meter Example price / GiB-month
Dataset storage 0.15
Document storage 0.02

Relationship to tenant Billing → Storage

Surface Role
Control Panel Storage Pricing Sets deployment-wide unit rates per meter
Tenant ObservabilityStorage tab Usage and retention analytics (GiB footprint, trends)
Tenant ObservabilityBilling tab (owners only) Settled spend breakdown including Storage alongside inference

Tenant users and managers do not configure prices; they consume analytics. Only tenant owners see Billing. After you change storage unit prices, owners should refresh Billing over a window where dataset/document retention is non-zero to confirm the Storage line moves with policy.

Model inference charges on the same Billing view come from Model Pricing; do not duplicate storage cost in per-model token fields.

Best practices

  • Set storage prices when billing is enabled and you expect chargeback for retained datasets/documents.
  • Keep dataset and document meters on different rates if your cost model treats embeddings corpora vs uploaded files differently.
  • Document internal rationale in Financial Controls Financial details or change tickets—not in tenant-visible copy.
  • Review tenant Storage tab utilization before raising unit prices (identify stale datasets driving GiB-month burn).
  • Coordinate with Models embedding defaults when dataset storage grows after catalog changes.

Troubleshooting

Symptom Check
Billing Storage line is zero Financial controls enabled; meter Active; save succeeded; retention actually present in tenant Storage tab
Storage total on CP page looks wrong Sum is unit-price catalog only—verify each Price / GiB-month, not tenant GiB usage
Owners cannot see billing Role must be tenant owner; managers never receive Billing tab per Observability

GT Helper

Ask GT Helper:

  • “What is the difference between dataset and document storage meters?”
  • “Where do tenant owners see storage charges?”
  • “How do I disable storage billing for a meter?”

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