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Billing and payment

You can make payments by credit card, bank transfer, or using your AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure marketplace subscriptions.

To pay for services, you have to assign every project with services to a billing group. The costs for all services in a project are charged to the payment method of the billing group assigned to that project.

Billing information, invoices, a breakdown of charges by category, and billing groups are available in the Billing section of the Aiven Console. To access this section, you must be an organization admin. Other users have read-only access to some billing information like billing group details and invoices using the API.

Billing groups​

Billing groups store payment details in one place, including a payment method, billing and shipping addresses, and billing contacts. This lets you use the same payment details across different projects within your organization, including those in other organizational units.

You can use billing groups to combine costs based on categories like your organization's departments or IT environments. You receive a consolidated invoice for all projects assigned to a billing group. Aiven credits are also assigned to a billing group and are automatically used to cover charges of any project assigned to that billing group.

Billing groups are created and managed at the organization level. You assign billing groups to projects in the project settings.

You can only use a billing group for payments in one organization. You cannot use a billing group for projects that are in other organizations.

Related pages

  • Create billing groups for your organization.
  • Use the invoice API to export cost information to business intelligence tools.