---
title: "Billing for TIR Load Balancer"
description: "How a TIR Load Balancer is billed by the hour from its plan, how High availability and a plan change affect the charge, and where to see prices."
content_type: "concept"
product: "tir-load-balancer"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/tir-load-balancer/concepts/billing-options/"
topic: ["billing"]
---

# Billing for TIR Load Balancer

A TIR Load Balancer is billed by the hour on the plan you choose when you create it. You see each
plan's price per hour, in your account's currency, before you create it. For prices, see
[E2E's pricing page](https://www.e2enetworks.com/pricing).

## How the charge is worked out

A Load Balancer on an hourly plan is billed while it is **Running**. The charge is the hours of use
times the number of instances times the plan's hourly rate. The number of instances follows the
**High availability** setting.

Usage is counted from the start minute to the end minute, and both are rounded up to the next whole
minute.

A Load Balancer that fails to be created is free of charge, and deleting a Load Balancer ends its
hourly billing.

## What a plan change does to the charge

When you change the plan or **High availability**, billing moves to the new rate from that moment. See
[Change the plan](/tir/tir-load-balancer/how-to/change-the-plan/).

Before you create a Load Balancer, read about the plans in
[How a load balancer works](/tir/tir-load-balancer/concepts/how-a-load-balancer-works/#plans-and-capacity).