Pricing
You pay for the nodes you pick. No seat licenses. No commitments.
A cloud engine's price is the sum of what its nodes cost to operate, plus a prepaid balance of cycles for day-to-day workloads. Every price is set by the node provider — OpenCloud takes no markup on compute.
How engine pricing works
Three things add up to the total cost of a cloud engine.
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Node ownership — monthly
A flat monthly fee per node set by its operator. Covers the rack, the hardware, and the data-center spend. Identical across the same hardware class.
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Bandwidth — metered
Egress bandwidth is billed per GB by the node operator, reflecting their data-center contract. Typically $0.01–$0.15 per GB.
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Compute — optional
Some operators meter CPU; many do not. When a node provider absorbs compute into the monthly fee, you will see a 'compute included' tag in the node selector.
Worked examples
Typical all-in monthly spend by engine shape.
Staging / startup
$9,133 / mo
13-node Medium engine. EU-only nodes.
- · 13 × gp2 nodes (16 vCPU, 64 GiB RAM)
- · ~$0.09/GB bandwidth
- · Compute metered by provider
- · Prepaid cycles: ~$60–120/mo typical
Production
$15,253 / mo
13-node Large engine. Mixed providers.
- · 13 × gp3 nodes (32 vCPU, 128 GiB RAM)
- · Dedicated SEV-SNP nodes available
- · Compute often included on dedicated nodes
- · Prepaid cycles: ~$250–500/mo typical
Shared hosting
$9 / canister / mo
Starting price on shared engines.
- · No engine to manage — just pick a listing
- · Prepaid cycles from $25/mo minimum
- · Best for experiments and single-canister apps
What cycles cover
Everything your canisters do is paid in cycles.
Persistent memory
Storage held inside canisters.
CPU
Update and query computation.
Inter-canister calls
Cross-canister and cross-engine messaging.
Ingress & egress bandwidth
External requests hitting your engine.
Cycles are prepaid. Your engine's control panel shows real-time burn per canister and lets you top up with a card. When a balance drops below the threshold that covers three months of frozen-asset storage, canisters are paused — never deleted by surprise.
Build an engine priced exactly for your workload.
The portal's node browser lets you mix and match. Filter by cloud, region, compliance, or any combination. See monthly and cycles cost before you commit.