| Policy Number | Plan Code | Plan Name | Notes / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| B001 | Plan FUM | Fully Unmetered | |
| B002 | Plan EUM | Effectively Unmetered | |
| B003 | Plan BC1 | Hard Bandwidth Cap | Disconnection/suspension when cap reached |
| B004 | Plan BC2 | Soft Bandwidth Cap | Rate limit until cap reset or payment |
| B009 | Plan BC3 | Metered Bandwidth Cap | Rate limit and charge for overage |
| B005 | Plan FAIR-A | Fair Use PLAN A (Strict Fair Usage) | Based on 95th percentile |
| B006 | Plan INTRA | Free intra-network / low cost peering traffic | Not an actual "bandwidth plan", but is an important traffic policy that often needs referred to |
| B007 | Plan FUM-SE | Sweden Fully Unmetered | Standard Fully Unmetered pricing for Swedish servers |
| B008 | Plan FUM-SE-CMT | Sweden Clearly Mixed Fully Unmetered | Discounted Fully Unmetered pricing for Swedish servers which have "Clearly Mixed Traffic" with 30%+ peering/internal traffic |
| Region | Country Code | Plan Code for Dedi's | Plan Code for VPS's | Overage Charge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | SE | 1gbps / 10gbps (FAIR-A) | 100mbps (BC2) | $1.40/TB |
| Germany | DE | 1gbps (FUM) / 10gbps (BC3) | $1.44/TB (servers with 10G uplink only) | |
| Finland | FI | 1gbps (FUM) / 10gbps (BC3) | $1.44/TB (servers with 10G uplink only) | |
| United States | US | 1gbps / 10gbps (EUM) | 300mbps (BC2) | $0.50/TB |
| Netherlands | NL | 1gbps / 10gbps (FAIR-A) | 300mbps (BC2) | $1.20/TB |
By default, unless you've been quoted for a different bandwidth policy and have accepted/paid for the upgrade, Sweden, Netherlands, and USA servers are split into two policies:
Soft Metered Networking for VPS, with a bandwidth cap of 1TB/mo per 1GB RAM, or Strict Fair Use (Dedi's and VPS's with >=1gbps networking).
Bandwidth overage is charged at $0.0014 / GB ($1.40 / TB) in Sweden, $0.0012 / GB ($1.20 / TB) in Netherlands, and $0.0005 / GB ($0.50 / TB) in USA.
Fully unmetered is also available if you're willing to pay for the upgrade. See Sweden Unmetered Pricing.
All servers in Germany and Finland are FULLY UNMETERED. Dedicated servers in Germany get 1gbps fully unmetered by default.
NOTE: It's possible to upgrade a DE/FI dedicated server to 10gbps, but doing so will result in being changed to Metered Networking (20TB per month, with $1.44 / TB overage)
Traffic between servers in the same Privex region (Privex SE <-> Privex SE // Privex NL <-> Privex NL // etc.) generally stays entirely within our network for the region, and thus it's ignored when inspecting the traffic usage of customers.
Traffic to/from our peers (see our looking glass) in Sweden is generally considered free, so long as either:
Fully Unmetered is standard at Germany (DE) and Finland (FI) regions for Dedicated servers, while for all other Privex regions you should assume "Unmetered" means "Fair Use". To understand the bandwidth policies used / available in each region, please see Bandwidth Policies By Region / Server Type. If you aren't certain about which bandwidth policy that a server package comes with, or which policy one of your existing servers is under - please contact support to find out for sure.
In regions other than Germany and Finland, if you plan to run Tor nodes (whether exit or non-exit), seedboxes, or other activities that can result in 24/7 high network usage - we may require that you pay for a fully unmetered networking plan.
Our FULLY unmetered networking in Sweden is priced as such:
For example:
100 x 0.4 = $40/mo500 x 0.38 = $19/mo1,000 x 0.35 = $350/mo5,000 x 0.3 = $1,500/mo10,000 x 0.3 = $3,000/moIf on average, you're able to prove at least 30% of your traffic flows via our peers, or within our internal network, then we can offer you our "clearly mixed traffic" pricing for unmetered networking, which is discounted due to at least 30% of traffic flowing via free/low-cost links (peering / internal network):
Our Clearly Mixed Traffic - FULLY unmetered networking in Sweden is priced as such:
Much like cell phone (mobile phone) providers across the world, we measure bandwidth usage by the number of megabytes/gigabytes/terabytes that have been transferred (whether uploaded or downloaded) over a certain time period, usually over the period of a month, or hour (in the case of hourly billing).
There are two types of bandwidth caps:
A hard bandwidth cap is one that a lot of people may be familiar with, as many cell phone providers use hard bandwidth caps for their data plans.
The "hard" in "hard bandwidth cap" refers to what happens when the bandwidth cap is hit / over used - with "hard" meaning "you get disconnected", thus with a hard bandwidth cap, when you run out of bandwidth, you'll be cut off from the network until you purchase more bandwidth.
Soft bandwidth caps are also used by some cell phone providers across the world - as the name implies, they're "soft"er on the customer when they run out of bandwidth.
The "soft" in "soft bandwidth cap" generally means that the customer doesn't get cut off when they reach their cap (unlike a Hard Bandwidth Cap), instead, the provider will either employ some sort-of limitations to the customers connection to prevent them from racking up large costs for themselves / their provider. The provider may rate limit the customer's network speed until the customer buys more bandwidth/data, or simply until the next billing period.
Metered caps track the bandwidth overage from their cap (how many GB/TB has the customer used past their monthly cap), and charge them for it on their next bill, e.g. $1.00 / per TB over their bandwidth cap.
“Effectively Unmetered” (EUM) means there is no hard bandwidth cap or fixed limit on how long you can use your internet port, but reasonable fair use applies. In practice, sustained high-speed internet traffic should be temporary rather than continuous: traffic above roughly 30–50% of the port speed should have an expected end date. Internal Privex traffic is always unmetered, as is traffic to peers at exchanges such as SOL-IX, STHIX, ERA-IX, and .
As a general guideline, continuously maxing out the port for around 3 days would be considered excessive unless it is a known, justified event. If staff notice prolonged high traffic, they may contact the customer to ask what is causing it and when it will end. If the customer cannot provide a reasonable explanation and end date, or does not respond within about 36 hours, the server may be temporarily capped at 10 Mbps until the customer cooperates or the next billing cycle begins.
EUM is therefore generally suitable for short-term traffic spikes or transfers with a definite end within roughly 24–72 hours, but not for high persistent 24/7 traffic, such as a continuously active Tor relay/exit or torrent seedbox. Only plans explicitly advertised as Fully/100% Unmetered are outside this discretionary fair-use policy.
( with overage charges (Swedish dedi's / Swedish VPS's with >=1gbps) )
For Swedish dedicated servers (1gbps as standard), and Swedish VPS's with their network speed set to 1gbps or higher - a much stricter Fair Use Policy applies.
This bandwidth policy is based on how transit overage (burst) is normally billed to network operators such as ourselves - Privex - which is often 98th, 95th, or 90th Percentile billing
Due to the way that we're billed for transit in Sweden (95th Percentile), along with the high cost of network traffic overage, we require customers to be extremely mindful of their traffic usage.
If you're on a "Strict Fair Use" networking plan, you must avoid using more than ~1gbps for more than 20 hours per month (roughly 30 minutes per day on avg.)
With a 1gbps network connection under our Strict Fair Use plan, this equates to roughly a 9 TB per month bandwidth cap.
1000mbit / 8 = 125mbyte
125 x 60 x 60 x 20 = 9,000,000 megabytes = 9,000 gigabytes = 9 terabytes
(60 seconds x 60 minutes x 20 hours)
A lot of transit providers offer "burstable" traffic, which for example, allows you to pay for 1gbps "committed" at a certain price per mbit (e.g. $0.70/mbit/mo), while "burst" or "overage" might be charged at $1.00/mbit/mo.
Transit providers usually calculate how much "burst" a network has used, using a mathematical/statistical method known as 95th percentile (or a variation such as 90th percentile, or 98th percentile). 95th percentile means that they take 5% of the highest traffic readings ( (30 * 24) * 0.05 = 36 hrs ) for the month, remove them, and then charge you for the highest traffic reading during the remaining 95% of the month.
This means that we get ~36 hrs of "free" traffic per month which could be at 100x the speed we actually pay for - e.g. you might pay for only 100mbps committed, while using 30 hrs of traffic at 10gbps. Those 30 hrs would be effectively free, but if you were to use 40 hrs at 10gbps instead, you would then have to pay for 9900mbps (9.9gbps) of overage - at $1.00/mbit that would be $9,900 USD at the end of the month which you maxed out the 10gbps for 40 hrs.
As you can see, burst bills can be very expensive, which is why we ask that customers on a Fair Use networking plan - avoid using more than 1gbps for more than 20 hrs per month, which would leave us 16 hrs buffer (or more - if they don't use the full 20) of leftover "free" traffic, which could be used by other customers.
If you exceed the 20 hours per month cap for traffic over ~1gbps which goes via our transit (any IPs we don't have peering towards, and which aren't on our LAN), we have the right to charge you for bandwidth overage based on either: Average Speed, Highest Speed, 98th, 95th, or 90th Percentile billing, depending on the specific characteristics of the overage. However, in most cases, we use 95th Percentile - as it's the same burstable billing calculation method that most of our transit providers use.