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title: "Profiles pricing | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn how Grafana Cloud Profiles bills for data processed, written, and retained."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Profiles pricing

Grafana Cloud Profiles bills on the volume of profiling data you send and keep, measured in gigabytes.

For current rates, refer to the [pricing page](/pricing/#profiles).

## How profiles are billed

Three dimensions make up your profiles bill:

**GBs processed**

Incurred when Grafana Cloud receives and optimizes the profiles you send. This is measured before any Adaptive Telemetry optimization.

**GBs written**

The total gigabytes written to Grafana Cloud each month. If you use Adaptive Profiles to reduce what you keep, only the resulting data is written and billed.

**GBs retained**

How long your profiles are kept in Grafana Cloud, billed per gigabyte for each additional retention increment beyond the minimum.

## How usage is calculated

Your bill is determined by the gigabytes processed, written, and retained per month, and the number of months of retention.

## Control ingestion

You can set a daily ingestion limit for profiles. Data discarded because it exceeds that limit isn’t billed. Refer to [Ingestion control](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/send-data/profiles/ingestion-control/).

## Retention periods

The minimum retention period is 14 days for free accounts and 30 days for paid accounts. Retaining data beyond 30 days is charged per gigabyte for each additional 30 day increment.

Retention is customizable per stack. To customize it, contact Support.

> Note
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> Retention period changes aren’t retroactive. After you increase retention, telemetry is stored under the new period, but data already outside the old retention period isn’t recovered.

## View your usage

1. In your Grafana Cloud stack, go to **Cost Management and Billing > Usage**.
2. Under **Product Breakdown**, select **Profiles**.

## Related

- [Profiles pricing page](/pricing/#profiles)
- [Reduce Profiles costs](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/cost-management-and-billing/analyze-costs/reduce-costs/profiles-costs/)
- [Ingestion control](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/send-data/profiles/ingestion-control/)