Billing
An overview of WarpStream's billing model.
Overview
WarpStream utilizes a consumption-based billing model. Billing settings are configured per WarpStream account. By default, new accounts are billed monthly in arrears for consumption metered in the prior calendar month, however custom payment schedules, payment terms, and pricing are available with a minimum commitment.
Billed usage for WarpStream resources is metered in hourly intervals. To review a breakdown of your consumption during the current billing period, or view invoices for past billing periods, navigate to the Usage tab of the Billing screen in the WarpStream console.
Manage your WarpStream billing account
To set a payment method, update your billing account information, or enter tax information, navigate to the Payment Methods tab in the Billing screen in the WarpStream Console.
Billing model
WarpStream has a consumption-based billing model for both Serverless and BYOC clusters. Pricing is published on the WarpStream website. Usage is metered hourly, and invoiced monthly in arrears.
Billing dimensions for BYOC clusters
WarpStream BYOC clusters are metered on the following dimensions:
Cluster-minutes
Minutes during which a WarpStream cluster had at least one Agent deployed. Metered in 15-minute intervals.
Uncompressed GiB written
Logical data written to the WarpStream cluster. Metered as the sum of logical data written to the cluster.
Uncompressed GiB stored
Logical data stored on the WarpStream cluster
Billing dimensions for Serverless clusters
WarpStream Serverless clusters are metered on the following dimensions:
Cluster-minutes
Minutes during which a WarpStream cluster received at least one request. Metered in 15-minute intervals.
Uncompressed GiB written
Logical data written to the WarpStream cluster
Uncompressed GiB stored
Logical data stored on the WarpStream cluster
Compressed GiB written
Network ingress to the WarpStream cluster
Compressed GiB read
Network egress from the WarpStream cluster
Cluster Tiers
WarpStream bills for cluster tiers. The tier of the cluster determines the price per Cluster-minute.
The available cluster tiers, their pricing, and features can be found on the pricing page.
Tiered pricing
The Uncompressed GiB written
and Uncompressed GiB stored
billing metrics are implemented with a tiered pricing model. This means that higher write volumes and storage volumes result in lower unit prices per incremental unit. Tiers reset at the beginning of each monthly billing cycle.
For Uncompressed GiB written
, tier thresholds are defined as the cumulative volume of data written to a single WarpStream cluster during the month. Once the next tier threshold is reached, subsequent data written to the cluster beyond that threshold are billed at the corresponding subsequent tier's unit price.
The tier thresholds for Uncompressed GiB stored
are defined as the cumulative number of GiB-Minutes
of logical data stored on a given WarpStream cluster. A GiB-Minute
is the maximum data volume stored during a 60 second interval. For example, if you store exactly 2 GiB of data on a WarpStream cluster for 30 minutes, the billing system will accrue 60 GiB-Minutes. For convenience, the tier sizes and unit prices for Uncompressed GiB stored
are often expressed as GiB-Months
, rather than GiB-Minutes
, but the meaning is the same. For example, if the first tier of Uncompressed GiB stored
is 50 TiB (which is 51,200 GiB), and the unit price for that tier is $0.01/GiB-Month, then the equivalent tier size in GiB-Minutes is 2,211,840,000 GiB-Minutes, and the unit price per GiB-Minute is $0.00000023148. For convenience and consistency, we define the conversion rate from GiB-Months to GiB-Minutes to assume a 30-day month (43,200 minutes per month).
The tiers for Uncompressed GiB written
and Uncompressed GiB stored
are specified on the pricing page.
Free Trial
All new WarpStream signups receive $400 in free credit automatically. This free credit can be utilized for any WarpStream product, and applies to all billing dimensions.
A payment method is not required to get started with WarpStream. To get started with a free trial of WarpStream, sign up for a WarpStream account.
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