# Misunderstanding about inference endpoint billing
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**Author:**  [@victochai](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fvictochai)%5C
**Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fmisunderstanding-about-inference-endpoint-billing%2F57428%2F1 "2023-10-04T19:39:32Z")
Hi everyone !
I managed to deploy a model and linked it to my infrastructure. During tests, the model has been inferred with only 2 images. Response time was about 10-15s each but I have been billed for 1 minute 40 and more (had to pause the endpoint).
The documentation states exactly : "
_Pay for **compute resources uptime by the minute** , billed monthly._
_As low as $0.06 per CPU core/hr and $0.6 per GPU/hr._
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which led me to assume that as long as the endpoint is not being used, I am not being billed. Am I wrong or did I miss something ?
Good evening 🙂
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**Author:**  [@GoldenGen](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FGoldenGen)%5C
**Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fmisunderstanding-about-inference-endpoint-billing%2F57428%2F2 "2024-10-23T22:26:34Z")
Hello! Did you manage to figure anything out? Same thing happening to me.
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**Author:**  [@langhoangal](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Flanghoangal)%5C
**Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 12:36am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fmisunderstanding-about-inference-endpoint-billing%2F57428%2F3 "2025-02-05T00:36:20Z")
The same, After deployment, I tested with 9 request within few minutes. And later (after few hours) I saw the compute time is 46 minutes. I feel unsafe using this service.