minor update

Author: Jessica41

pages/account_and_service_management/managing_billing_payments_and_services/changing_hourly_monthly_billing/guide.en-gb.md

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 title: 'Public Cloud Instances - Switching from hourly to monthly billing'
 excerpt: 'Find out how to change the billing rate for your Public Cloud instance'
-updated: 2023-01-23
+updated: 2025-09-04
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 ## Objective
 
-When you create a Public Cloud instance, you can choose to be billed at either an hourly or monthly rate. Hourly-rate instances are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis, i.e. at the end of each month, users are billed for every commenced hour per actual resources used.<br>
+When you create a Public Cloud instance, you can choose to be billed at either an hourly or monthly rate (except for third-generation Public Cloud instances, which are billed hourly by default and do not offer the monthly option during instance creation). Hourly-rate instances are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis, i.e. at the end of each month, users are billed for every commenced hour per actual resources used.<br>
 Monthly-rate instances are up to 50% less expensive compared to an hourly rate for the same duration. Each month commenced will be billed at the end of the month.<br>
 If you initially selected hourly billing, you can switch to monthly billing at any time.
 
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 ### From the OVHcloud Control Panel
 
+> [!warning]
+> The following procedure does not work for third-generation instances (example: B3-32). To be billed monthly for this type of instance, you must create a savings plan for this instance model.
+>
+
 In the [OVHcloud Control Panel](/links/manager), choose the instance you would like to change the billing rate for, and open its options menu by clicking on the 3 dots on the right of the Instance. You will then be able to see the `Switch to monthly subscription`{.action} button:
 
 ![Change billing calculation](images/switch_to_monthly_updated.png){.thumbnail}