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You will only be charged once you deploy your project to the production environment. This charge will be based on:
- The number of calls per Catalyst component and function execution time.
- The component used and the Catalyst credit corresponding to the component usage.
What sets us apart?
Free, full-featured sandbox
You can use all of the Catalyst components and deploy your project in the development sandbox free of cost, unlike any other vendor in the industry. You pay nothing when your code is not running.
Usage-based pricing
Pay only for what you use. Depending on your usage, Catalyst will automatically ensure that you always end up paying a lower bill. How? See example below.
Example
Zylker Technology runs an ecommerce website for selling chocolates and candies. They store the backend information in Catalyst and use its Zia OCR feature to detect handwritten wishlists and add those items to cart. Candy sales are consistent throughout the year, but the website sees peak traffic during Halloween. Let's look how billing would work for them in two scenarios, in a low traffic month (September) and a high traffic month (October).
September
| Operation Type | Number of Calls | Number of Credits per call | Total Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Store insert | 5000 | 2 | 10,000 |
| Data Store update | 5000 | 2 | 10,000 |
| Function calls with 2 seconds of execution time with 128 MB of memory | 5000 | 1 | 5,000 |
| Zia OCR | 3000 | 100 | 300,000 |
| Cost as per light usage | Cost as per heavy usage | |
|---|---|---|
| Usage fee per credit | ||
| Fixed fee | ||
| Total credits consumed | 325,000 | 325,000 |
| Total price | (325,000*) | (+[325,000*]) |
Monthly cost to business =
How? Catalyst automatically calculates the pricing basis the light usage and heavy usage plans, and bills whichever is lower. In this example, the business will pay instead of , and save 39% of cost through usage-based pricing.
October
| Operation Type | Number of Calls | Number of Credits per call | Total Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Store insert | 50,000 | 2 | 100,000 |
| Data Store update | 50,000 | 2 | 100,000 |
| Function calls with 2 seconds of execution time with 128 MB of memory | 50,000 | 1 | 50,000 |
| Zia OCR | 30,000 | 100 | 3,000,000 |
| Cost as per light usage | Cost as per heavy usage | |
|---|---|---|
| Usage fee per credit | ||
| Fixed fee | ||
| Total credits consumed | 3,250,000 | 3,250,000 |
| Total price | (3,250,000*) | (+[3,250,000*]) |
Monthly cost to business =
How? Catalyst automatically calculates the pricing basis the light usage and the heavy usage plans, and bills whichever is lower. In this example, the business will pay instead of and save 75% of cost through usage-based pricing.
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Catalyst does not follow a subscription model. That means you don't have to commit to any long-term contracts or license agreements. (Did we mention that signing up takes less than 10 seconds?)
Per component credit charges
Functions
Functions are charged based on the length of the execution.
| Execution Time (in seconds) | Credits |
|---|---|
| <1 | 0.5 |
| 1-5 | 1 |
| 5-10 | 5 |
| 10-15 | 10 |
| 15-30 | 15 |
| 30-60 | 30 |
| 60-120 | 60 |
| 120-300 | 120 |
| 300-600 | 300 |
| 600-900 | 600 |
Memory Cost
| Memory (MB) | Credits proportionate to execution time |
|---|---|
| 128 | 1 |
| 256 | 2 |
| 512 | 4 |
Method of calculation = Number of Function executions * Number of credits for Function execution time * Number of credits for memory configured
Circuits
Circuits are charged based on the number of state transitions.
| Operation type | Credits |
|---|---|
| State transition | 1 |
Data store
Catalyst data store is charged based on the number of I/O calls and the amount of data stored in the data store.
Operational Cost
| Operation Type | Credits |
|---|---|
| Insert | 2 |
| Delete | 2 |
| Update | 2 |
| Select | 1 |
| Search | 2 |
Storage Cost
| Storage | Credits |
|---|---|
| Up to 2 GB (approx. 1 million rows) | 0 |
| 1 MB (~500 rows)* | 5000 |
File store
File store is charged based on the number of uploads and number of downloads to the file store and the amount of data stored in the file store.
Operational Cost
| Operation Type | Credits |
|---|---|
| Upload | 4 |
| Download | 2 |
Storage Cost
| Operation Type | Credits |
|---|---|
| Up to 10 GB (~2000 image files) | 0 |
| 1 GB | 50 |
Cache
Cache is charged based on the number of I/O calls and the amount of data stored.
| Operation Type | Credits |
|---|---|
| Put | 2 |
| Get | 1 |
Storage Cost
| Storage | Credits |
|---|---|
| Up to 10 MB(Approx 2000 keys) | Free |
| 1 MB(Approx 200 keys) | 50 |
Intelligence by Zia
The AI and ML services offered in Catalyst are charged based on the number of successful calls made to each of these services.
| Feature | Credits |
|---|---|
| OCR | 100 |
| Object Recognition | 100 |
| Face Analytics | 100 |
| Barcode Scanning | 100 |
| AutoML | 100/Request Free model training |
| Image Moderation | 100 |
Services
Catalyst offers various services to empower your applications - they're all charged based on the number of times they've been invoked.
| Service | Credits |
|---|---|
| API Gateway | 1/Requests |
| Application Performance Monitoring (APM) | 1/Function Executions |
| Web Client Hosting | 1/GET requests |
| Emails | 50/Emails |
| Push notifications | 25/notifications |
| Application Alerts - Email Alert | 50/alert |
Additional Services
Catalyst offers Automation Testing, an automated API testing tool that can be used to test all API endpoints accessible to an application.
| Additional Service | Credits |
|---|---|
| Automation Testing | 500 free test case/project 250/test case run |
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*This calculator provides only an estimate based on your inputs. Actual billing will be based on your actual usage.
Total Credits : 19,000
Billed Monthly : ₹22.8
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