Billing
Nodes
Nodes are billed according to the cost of the machine it is launched on. There are a wide variety of CPU & GPU Machine Plans available on the TIR platform to launch nodes, and each of these plans has a price associated with it on which the customer is billed. The billing for these machines is done on an hourly or committed basis.
To launch any node on a paid machine, one must have enough credits to run that node for about 24 hours.
We also provide a certain number of free machine plans to launch nodes. Kindly refer to the Free-Tier Nodes section for more details.
As soon as the node is launched or started, the billing starts. Billing of a particular node stops when the node is stopped or terminated. Nodes are not billed when in the stopped state.
Free-Tier Nodes
Free-Tier Nodes are the nodes running on the free machine plans available on the platform.
Each Primary Account gets a fixed number of free hours every month. The free hours available in a month are different for CPU & GPU Machines. Currently, every account gets 2 hours of monthly free usage for GPU Machines. For CPU Machines, there is no time limit.
As long as free usage hours are available in the account, any customer (Primary or Secondary) can launch these Free-Tier Nodes.
Node Limit
At any point in time, only 1 Free-Tier node each for CPU & GPU-type machines is allowed per account, i.e., across projects & teams of primary & secondary customers.
If your monthly free hours are consumed, or the node-limit condition is not met, free-tier nodes cannot be launched. Nevertheless, you will always be able to launch nodes on paid machines, without any restrictions.
When the monthly free usage limit has been reached, free-tier nodes are either auto-shutdown or converted to paid instances depending on the termination policy chosen by the user at the time of launching the node. If the "Convert to Paid Version" option is chosen, billing of nodes will start as soon as the free hours have been consumed.
Node Disks (PVC)
Every node comes with a default 30 GB of disk space. This disk space can be upgraded to a maximum of 5000 GB based on the user’s choice.
Users are not charged anything for the default 30 GB of disk space. However, every additional GB of space beyond the default 30 GB will be charged on a per GB per month basis.
Datasets
Creation of any dataset leads to the creation of a bucket in the customer’s Object Store on TIR.
Datasets are not charged explicitly, but all the corresponding buckets in TIR will be charged as per the pricing of Object Storage.
Playground
The cost of LAMA-2 and Code Llama models is based on the number of tokens you input and the number of tokens in the output. For Stable Diffusion, the cost is based on the number of inference steps.