# Serverless Contatiners Cold Start
**URL:** https://forum.verda.com/t/serverless-contatiners-cold-start/34
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 26, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.verda.com/t/serverless-contatiners-cold-start/34 "2025-08-26T07:58:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@NovaPulse](https://forum.verda.com/u/NovaPulse)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.verda.com/t/serverless-contatiners-cold-start/34/1 "2025-08-26T07:58:35Z")
New to the system, how long does cold start take on serverless containers?
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### Author:  [@TeamVerda](https://forum.verda.com/u/TeamVerda)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.verda.com/t/serverless-contatiners-cold-start/34/2 "2025-08-28T10:50:46Z")
Hi NovaPulse
Sorry for the late response. That very much depends on how large weights the container handles. Usually it won’t be a complete cold start as our system tries to start the container on nodes which haves the container image already cached.
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### Author:  [@NovaPulse](https://forum.verda.com/u/NovaPulse)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.verda.com/t/serverless-contatiners-cold-start/34/3 "2025-08-29T14:16:08Z")
Thanks for the answer, another one regarding serverless containers:
If I have my custom comfyui docker images, deployed on serverless, but it’s not generating anything, it’s basically idle, am I still being charged for it?
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### Author:  [@TeamVerda](https://forum.verda.com/u/TeamVerda)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.verda.com/t/serverless-contatiners-cold-start/34/4 "2025-09-02T11:36:04Z")
Thanks for the questions, you are charged for time your containers are running. If you want them to shut down when you aren’t sending them requests, set minumum replicas to 0 and adjust scale down delays to what suits you. The containers will scale up when messages are received