Managed Kubernetes Pricing

Managed Kubernetes is billed per Worker-vCPU per hour.

To get the price, choose:

Cloud Provider Best Effort Guaranteed Availability

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

CHF 26.00

CHF 57.00

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

CHF 26.00

CHF 57.00

Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

CHF 26.00

CHF 57.00

Exoscale Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS)

CHF 26.00

CHF 57.00

Per Worker-vCPU per 30 days, billed by the hour.

Notes

Price for calculation

The price per hour is used for calculation. To get the price per hour, divide the list price which is listed per 30 days by 720.

Rounding

The hour-by-hour costs are summed up by month, then rounded to two decimal places for invoicing.

Included in the price
Not included in the price
  • Compute resources

  • Installation customization (Deviation from standard setup)

Contract Length

There is no minimum contract length requested.

Setup Fee

The cluster installation is billed by the hour. In our experience, a standard cluster installation takes around 8 hours.

Validity

These prices are valid starting 2024-04-01 until further notice.

VAT

All prices are excl. VAT.

Days/Hours/Minutes Conversion

30 days are 720 hours or 43'200 minutes.

Duration

Duration is calculated from the time the vCPU is available until the vCPU is gone, rounded up to the nearest hour.

Cloud Service Provider price calculators

Many of the cloud providers provide a helping hand to calculate prices:

Work-Hour Pricing

Price per work hour: CHF 250.00.

Prepaid Hour Packages

Hour packages bring the advantage of discounted volume prices. These packages expire after one year from the date of purchase. Worked hours are deducted from the account balance and reported once a month.

Hours Price / Hour Total

40

CHF 240.00

CHF 9'600.00

80

CHF 230.00

CHF 18'400.00

120

CHF 220.00

CHF 26'400.00

240

CHF 210.00

CHF 50'400.00

Hour packages must be used within one year of the contract signing. You will receive a monthly report of hourly packages used. If an hourly package is used, it will be billed at the normal rate, and a new package can be ordered at any time.

FAQ

What is a Worker-vCPU?

Nodes which are running customer’s workload are called worker nodes. vCPUs which are attached to these worker nodes are Worker-vCPUs.