What is a GiB-hour?

A GiB-hour is one gibibyte of memory held for one hour. Four GiB for one hour is four GiB-hours.

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GiB and GB

A gibibyte (GiB) is 1,024 mebibytes. A gigabyte (GB) is 1,000 megabytes, about 7% less. Some providers publish prices per GB and some per GiB.

How providers use it

Memory is billed for the whole time the sandbox runs, also when the CPU is idle. Some providers bill memory only and include the CPU.

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