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Per-second billing: pricing compute like a stream
Sep 18, 2025
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billingmicro-billingcost-controleconomics
Why per-hour billing is structurally wasteful
If you rent a whole hour, you pay for the minutes you didn’t use.
Micro-billing needs controls
Per-second billing without caps is not safety—it’s a faster way to overspend.
The minimum control set
- Price caps
- Regions
- Slice policies (vCPU, GPU, RAM)
- Alerts and spend ceilings
Receipts change finance conversations
With proof-based receipts, cost can be traced to delivered work.
Kova Team
Operators building verifiable, fractional compute.
We write about fractional GPUs/CPUs, per-second economics, verification, and the deployment details that keep fleets stable.
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