Cloud costs in rupees, euros and dollars: rates and tax

Par Rohit Athaide · Publié le 3 nov. 2026

Cloud vendors price in US dollars, then bill in the currency of your contract. A figure in rupees or euros on this site is a conversion, and a conversion carries its own differences from your invoice.

How we convert

Prices are stored in US dollars, exactly as the vendors list them. Converting them in one place, with one table of rates, keeps the comparison fair: every cloud uses the same rate. Some vendors can return a local-currency price directly, but others cannot, and mixing the two would put an exchange-rate difference into the comparison.

Rates come from the European Central Bank’s daily reference rates, fetched during the weekly refresh. If a fetch fails, the last published rates stay. Each rate is shown with its date. The site shows about thirty currencies and lets you pick one.

A few currencies, such as the UAE dirham, the Saudi riyal and the Qatari riyal, are pegged to the dollar at a fixed rate. Those are never fetched.

Why your invoice will not match

• The vendor’s rate. Your cloud invoice uses the vendor’s own exchange rate on the day, which differs from ours.
• The billing date. The rate can move between the usage date and the invoice date.
• Local pricing. Some vendors publish a separate price list in a local currency for a country, and that is not always a straight conversion.
• Card and bank charges. A foreign-currency payment may add the bank’s fee and spread.
• Tax. See below.

For a plan, a small difference does not matter. For a budget in a tight currency, add a margin.

Tax

List prices exclude tax. Depending on where you are and how you buy, the invoice adds goods and services tax, VAT or sales tax. In India that is GST, shown as a separate line. Whether you can reclaim it depends on your registration. Estimates here never include it, because the rate and your treatment of it are yours to know. Check with your accountant.

The guide to cloud costs in India covers the Indian specifics in more detail.

Practical advice

1. Plan in the currency you will be invoiced in, not the one you find easiest. If the invoice is in dollars and revenue is in rupees, the exchange rate is part of your risk.
2. Add a margin to cover rate movement, particularly for long commitments.
3. Check the invoice rate when you compare an estimate with a bill, as described in how to read a cloud bill.
4. Ask your vendor or reseller which rate and which date they use.

The rest of our rules, including why prices are on-demand list prices, are in how we calculate monthly cloud costs. For regional price differences, see why cloud prices differ by region.