Estimate project costs
This topic provides general guidance on estimating the cost of your Imply Polaris project.
In Polaris, pricing is based on your resource consumption. To estimate your monthly project cost, consider the core billing dimensions of Polaris: Project Tier size, batch data ingestion, streaming data ingestion, and file storage.
The following table illustrates how to use the billing dimensions to calculate your monthly project costs:
| Billing dimension | Cost calculation | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Project Tier | Multiply the list price by the number of hours in the month. | $2.60 /hr * 720 hrs |
| Batch data ingestion | Multiply the list price by the amount of batch data in GBs ingested during the month. | $0.30 /GB * 80 GB /day * 30 days |
| Streaming data ingestion | Multiply the list price by the amount of streaming data in GBs ingested during the month. | $0.60 /GB * 20 GB /day * 30 days |
| File storage | Multiply the list price by the amount of data in GBs stored during the month. | $0.06 /GB-month * 100 GB-month |
Pricing examples
The following examples illustrate how Polaris calculates monthly charges for customers on the pay-as-you-go plan. The examples are for the month of November which has 30 days or 720 hours.
a.02 Project Tier
You are building a modern app with Polaris as the database. You ingest 20 GB of streaming data using the built-in Kafka streaming service and 80 GB of batch data daily. You retain the data for one day. The total size of the data on the disk every day is 100 GB.
For your requirement of 100 GB of data capacity, you need an a.02 Polaris Project Tier. The a.02 Project Tier provides 200 GB of data storage capacity, 16 vCPU, and 112 GB of memory.
Polaris calculates your consumption as follows:
Project Tier: $2.60 /hr * 720 hrs = $1,872
Batch data ingestion: $0.30 /GB * 80 GB /day * 30 days = $720
Streaming data ingestion: $0.60 /GB * 20 GB /day * 30 days = $360
File storage: $0.06 /GB-month * 100 GB-month = $6
Total for the month = $2,958
a.04 Project Tier
You are modernizing your app and transitioning from a legacy database to Polaris. On November 1, you bulk ingest 350 GB of historical data. You also ingest 30 GB of streaming data every day. Your total data size on disk is 380 GB every day for November.
For your requirement of 380 GB of data capacity, you need an a.04 Polaris Project Tier. The a.04 Project Tier provides 400 GB of data storage capacity, 28 vCPU, and 208 GB of memory.
Polaris calculates your consumption as follows:
Project Tier: $5.20 /hr * 720 hrs = $3,744
Batch data ingestion: $0.30 /GB * 350 GB = $105
Streaming data ingestion: $0.60 /GB * 30 GB /day * 30 days = $540
File storage: $0.06 /GB-month * 380 GB-month = $22.8
Total for the month = $4,411.80