# Does Elastic Cloud Hosting Charge you for 24 hours in advance?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-cloud-hosting-charge-you-for-24-hours-in-advance/375413>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-cloud-hosting-charge-you-for-24-hours-in-advance/375413 "2025-03-05T00:22:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-cloud-hosting-charge-you-for-24-hours-in-advance/375413/1 "2025-03-05T00:22:13Z")

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Hello everyone,

I'm quite new to the ecosystem so thanks in advance for your patience!

As the title of the post suggests I enabled the trial for the Elastic Cloud Hosting to see the features and capabilities, at first the "Billing" tab seemed to progress in a steady and predictable pace, but around 2 AM (after 4 hours of my master node being utilized) I refresh the page and see that the hours that my node was utilized jumped from 4 hours all the way up to 29 hours.

Thankfully I'm in the trial subscription, but I wanted to ask if Elastic charges you in advance for the next 24 hours that the node/component is to be utilized and if so why and under what conditions (I mean is it after 2 AM everyday or another reference point) is that?

Thanks again in advance!