# Running instances
**URL:** https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/running-instances/4063
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 10, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/running-instances/4063 "2024-01-10T12:21:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Eun](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/Eun)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/running-instances/4063/1 "2024-01-10T12:21:45Z")
What do yo mean by “billed for as long as GPU is running, regrardless of being actively used”
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### Author:  [@cody\_b](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/cody_b)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/running-instances/4063/2 "2024-01-10T21:55:42Z")
Billing continues as long as an instance is running, even if the GPUs are idle like shown, below.
```auto
$ nvidia-smi
Wed Jan 10 21:52:26 2024
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.104.12 Driver Version: 535.104.12 CUDA Version: 12.2 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA A10 On | 00000000:07:00.0 Off | 0 |
| 0% 28C P8 8W / 150W | 4MiB / 23028MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
```