What exactly does "pay as you go mean"?

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Hostings and deployments are new to me, so my question may sound stupid.
What exactly does Galaxy’s “pay as you go mean” statement mean? How does it work? I pay $0.035 for hour everytime my app is being used? So i might pay for 24 hours or for 2/4/6 hours depending on usage?
Or do i pay $0.035 + some fee for data usage per hour depending on amount of data being transferred?
Or do i just pay $25.2 (0.0352430) monthly and nothing else?

I am building a non-profit hobby project so i am trying to figure out if Galaxy will give me best bang for the buck.

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You deploy an app on N containers and the timer starts at T1.

The billing date T2 arrives and (T2-T1) in hours times (depending on the container size) $0.035 times N gets billed.

You delete an app and the timer for that app stops.

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You’re billed $0.035 / hour while the container is running, then you get charged on a monthly basis.

There’s a tiny mention during the sign up process (which could probably be made more clear)

Also take a look at the first question here - https://www.meteor.com/why-meteor/galaxy-faq

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So just to clarify. If i am the only user of app and if i am using app only 3 hours a day i will be charged 30.03530 = $3.15 at the end of the month?

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No!

As long as your app stays deployed on galaxy, even if there are no users connected, you will still pay 24 x 0.035 x 30

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Thank you guys for your answers @serkandurusoy @reoh

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