TurboML Billing Units (TBU) Pricing Model

TurboML provides a straightforward and flexible billing system based on TurboML Billing Units (TBU), allowing you to pay only for what you use. This predictable pricing model adapts to the needs of organizations of all sizes, ensuring cost efficiency.

What is a TurboML Billing Unit (TBU)?

A TurboML Billing Unit (TBU) is the core metric for usage-based billing on the TurboML platform. It represents the normalized cost of operations such as data processing, storage, and retrieval. Your monthly costs are calculated based on the number of TBUs consumed across various activities like retrieval, and storage.

1 TBU = $0.01

Your monthly charges will depend on the number of TBUs consumed across various operations such as data ingestion, data retrieval, and data storage.

How TBUs are Consumed

1. Data Retrieval (Reads):
Accessing or querying data from TurboML incurs TBUs based on the size of the data retrieved.
Example: Retrieving 1 GB of data may cost 500 TBUs.

2. Data Storage:
Storing data on the TurboML platform is charged based on the volume stored and the storage duration.
Example: Storing 1 GB of data per hour may cost 0.05 TBUs.

3. Instance Types:
Running workloads on TurboML involves charges for compute resources based on instance types. Larger instances consume more TBUs per hour.

Billing Examples with Instance Types

Scenario 1: Small-Scale Use Case (General-Purpose Instances)
A small organization deploys eight "Large" instance types at a rate of 200 TBUs/hour.
• Instance Usage: 8 instances x 200 TBUs/hour x 24 hours x 30 days
• Estimated TBUs Used: 1,152,000 TBUs

Scenario 2: Enterprise Use Case (General-Purpose Instances)
An enterprise deploys sixteen "2xLarge" instance types at a rate of 800 TBUs/hour.
• Instance Usage: 16 instances x 800 TBUs/hour x 24 hours x 30 days
• Estimated TBUs Used: 9,216,000 TBUs