# Pricing: Predictable Costs, Unlimited Egress

Flat monthly rate. Hardware, Kubernetes, observability, and SRE time, all included. Engagements start at €5,000/month. No maximum.

## Pricing Tiers

Three presets optimised for different workload profiles:

### Compute

More CPU cores and memory, less storage. For data processing, simulations, and API-heavy applications that need sustained compute.

### Balance

Even split of compute and storage. Fits most general-purpose workloads: web applications, background processing, databases.

### Storage

More disk capacity, fewer CPU cores. For large datasets, media processing, log aggregation, or backup repositories.

All tiers are ~50% less than equivalent on-demand infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure (excluding egress fees and managed service surcharges). Pricing is illustrative. We size each cluster to your workload profile. Egress is unlimited under applicable fair use policy.

## What's included

- **Dedicated Hardware**: Bare-metal servers, primarily in German data centres. No shared tenancy, no noisy neighbours.
- **Embedded SRE Time**: No separate consulting fee. SRE time is built into the same price as your hardware and management.
- **Full Observability Stack**: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Alertmanager. Dashboards and alerts included from day one.
- **EU Data Sovereignty**: Data processed and stored in Germany by default, on hardware we control. No US hyperscaler, no CLOUD Act ambiguity.

## How to explain this to your CFO

| CFO concern | How we address it | Bottom-line impact |
|---|---|---|
| "Our cloud bill is unpredictable" | Flat monthly rate. No usage metering, no egress fees | One budget line you can forecast 12 months out |
| "We can't find or keep DevOps engineers" | SRE team included. No separate consulting fee | Infrastructure expertise without a full-time hire |
| "Performance issues eat developer time" | Dedicated bare metal, private network. No shared tenancy | Your developers ship product instead of debugging infrastructure |
| "What happens if we want to leave?" | Standard Kubernetes. No proprietary services or APIs | Workloads move to any Kubernetes provider. No exit penalty |
| "How does cost scale as we grow?" | Linear. More hardware, proportionally more spend | Finance can model next year's infrastructure cost in a spreadsheet |
| "What does migration actually cost us?" | We handle the migration. Billing starts when workloads are running | Phased rollout minimises overlap. No big-bang migration risk |


## Infrastructure by Budget

Representative configurations at selected price points. Same figures as the interactive pricing calculator.

### Compute

| Monthly budget | CPU cores | RAM | NVMe | Storage | SRE days/month | Savings vs cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| €5,000 | 120 | 1,280 GB | 9,600 GB | — | 2 | ~56% |
| €10,000 | 264 | 2,816 GB | 21,120 GB | — | 4 | ~60% |
| €25,000 | 600 | 6,400 GB | 48,000 GB | — | 10 | ~56% |
| €50,000 | 1248 | 13,312 GB | 99,840 GB | — | 20 | ~58% |
| €100,000 | 2520 | 26,880 GB | 201,600 GB | — | 40 | ~58% |

### Balanced

| Monthly budget | CPU cores | RAM | NVMe | Storage | SRE days/month | Savings vs cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| €5,000 | 72 | 768 GB | 5,760 GB | 211 TB | 2 | ~55% |
| €10,000 | 144 | 1,536 GB | 11,520 GB | 422 TB | 4 | ~55% |
| €25,000 | 312 | 3,328 GB | 24,960 GB | 968 TB | 10 | ~50% |
| €50,000 | 888 | 9,472 GB | 71,040 GB | 1355 TB | 20 | ~55% |
| €100,000 | 2016 | 21,504 GB | 161,280 GB | 2129 TB | 40 | ~57% |

### Storage

| Monthly budget | CPU cores | RAM | NVMe | Storage | SRE days/month | Savings vs cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| €5,000 | 72 | 768 GB | 5,760 GB | 211 TB | 2 | ~55% |
| €10,000 | 96 | 1,024 GB | 7,680 GB | 528 TB | 4 | ~50% |
| €25,000 | 192 | 2,048 GB | 15,360 GB | 1355 TB | 10 | ~46% |
| €50,000 | 336 | 3,584 GB | 26,880 GB | 3291 TB | 20 | ~50% |
| €100,000 | 600 | 6,400 GB | 48,000 GB | 6969 TB | 40 | ~50% |