# Introduction to pricing
This page gives you an introduction to our prices.
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# Context
# First
Our passion is to inspire scientists to elevate data for a better world. To do so, we have chosen to spend our time developing scientific instruments for your quest. Money is a means towards this goal, not an end. We are part of a public university that runs these services with zero profit.
# Total cost
Your total cost will include a combination of fixed subscription costs and running costs for the resources attached to your labs. The fees across all labs inside one data space are summarized and billed to the data spaces' billing accounts. You may choose to split the total cost into individual invoice profiles, for example per lab.
# Supporting documents
The information should be read together with the services specifications that details the services that are included in the price list. And the price list that details the prices of individual service units.
# Subscriptions
Data spaces and labs are deployed as subscription services that are prices for one year or three years.
# Data space subscription
You will need an active data space subscription to add a lab subscription.
| Commitment length: | 1 YEAR | 3 YEAR |
|---|---|---|
| WHITE data space |  | |
| ORANGE data space | | |
| BLUE data space | | |
# Lab subscription
You will need and attach a lab subscription to your data space subscription to allocate individual services inside a lab.
| Commitment length: | 1 YEAR | 3 YEAR |
|---|---|---|
| Lab | | |
# Individual services
# Compute
Individual compute services are priced as both one or three years prepaid COMMITMENT machines and pay-as-you-go ON-DEMAND machines that are priced per day. In addition, the BLUE data space subscription level may allocated BLUE machines that at a reduced price on a pay-as-you-go basis.
| Service meter for machines: | 1 YEAR | 3 YEAR | DAILY |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMMITMENT machines | | | |
| ON-DEMAND machines* |  | | |
| BLUE machines* | | | |
*) Minimum allocation of 30 days.
GPU accelerators may be added to the COMMITMENT and ON-DEMAND machine types. The cost of the GPU accelerators are added to the chosen machine type cost.
# Store
The total number of terabytes are summarized across all labs attached to one data space (billing account). We use the combined storage allocation under a data space to calculate a storage volume price. The effect is that your terabyte price drops as your data grows.
Storage may be consumed as prepaid one or three years COMMITMENT storage, or as a daily pay-as-you-go cost for ON-DEMAND storage. Prepaid and on-demand storage may be combined within data spaces and labs. Free quota or pilot period storage are not included in the terabytes used in the calculations.
# Others
# Metering
The metering sections in the services specifications specify how individual service units in the price lists are are measured (metered).
# Costs
The cost sections in the services specifications reference the price list and specify how costs are calculated for individual service units when they are adjusted over the service period.
# Billing
The billing sections in the services specifications specify when fees are billed. Fees are billed to billing accounts under one data spaces. Data spaces on the BLUE subscription level may include separate billing accounts to their labs.
| Data space subscription level: | WHITE | ORANGE | BLUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| One billing account | | | |
| Multiple billing accounts | | | |