Pricing / no hidden assumptions
Pay for a useful service. Know what compute really costs.
The calculator is free. Managed execution is not self-service yet. Pilot pricing, capacity, support, and infrastructure costs are agreed in writing before any paid work.
01 / EXPLORE
Understand the economics
For the public research and calculator
- Full methodology and source register
- Interactive scenario calculator
- Exportable assumptions
- No account or card required
02 / PILOT
Evaluate your workload
Access and terms agreed before execution
- Apply with an existing or new client account
- Define eligible infrastructure and workloads
- Agree a baseline and success criteria
- Separate platform and infrastructure costs
03 / ORGANIZATION
Plan a private rollout
Requirements review; not a live SLA offer
- Discuss dedicated worker pools
- Define security and data boundaries
- Plan support and deployment requirements
- Review an all-in cost model
No paid subscription, automatic billing, cloud credits, or unlimited-compute entitlement is created by applying. Existing Tbench audit-wallet rates do not apply to this product.
Interactive cost model
Make the assumptions yours.
The default hosted comparison uses Blacksmith’s listed $0.004/minute Linux x64 rate. Runtime differences are assumptions, not measurements. Edit them to match your workload.
Your assumptions / USD
Local costs should include power, hardware depreciation, storage, maintenance, and developer disruption.
Runtime, rates & platform fee
Default runtimes are hypothetical. $0 platform fee is a placeholder, not a price offer. Enter the fee from your quote. Hosted runtime is the billed average after provider rounding.
Illustrative monthly comparison
per month vs. the hosted alternative (38.3% lower).
No free allowances or hosted storage add-ons included. This is a scenario, not a measured result. Enough monthly capacity does not guarantee enough capacity at peak time.
Will I be charged when I apply?
No payment method is collected. An application requests reviewed client access. Any paid pilot requires a separate agreement before execution.
Can local CI be more expensive?
Yes. Low usage, slow hardware, maintenance, or workstation contention can outweigh avoided hosted minutes. The calculator deliberately displays higher costs when the assumptions produce them.
Does $0 in the platform-fee field mean the platform is free?
No. It is an editable modelling placeholder. Replace it with the platform fee in your quote. Only the public research and calculator are offered at $0 here.
Why not publish a savings guarantee?
We have not measured your workload or qualified a production runner service. Published rates, cost scenarios, and benchmark evidence are different things; a guarantee would require more than arithmetic.
Start with your actual workload.
Explore the model, then apply for a scoped pilot. No card or compute commitment.