Pricing and billing

The costs include database pricing for BigAnimal and the associated costs from other providers. You can also view usage and metering information.

BigAnimal calculates the estimated monthly price for your cluster and displays it at the bottom of the page while you're creating a cluster. This estimate includes database costs. If you're using BigAnimal's cloud account, it also includes infrastructure costs.

Database pricing

Pricing is based on the number of virtual central processing units (vCPUs) provisioned for the database software offering. Consumption of vCPUs is metered hourly.

Single-node and primary/standby high-availability pricing

When primary/standby high-availability configurations are enabled, to calculate the full price for all resources used, multiply the number of vCPUs per instance by the number of replicas configured.

This table shows the cost breakdown.

* The monthly cost is approximate and assumes 730 hours in a month.

Distributed high-availability pricing

When distributed high-availability configurations are enabled, to calculate the full price for all resources used, multiply the number of vCPUs per instance by the number of data nodes configured. You aren't charged for the database price for witness nodes or groups in distributed high-availability configurations, just the infrastructure resources, such as compute.

This table shows the cost breakdown.

* The monthly cost is approximate and assumes 730 hours in a month.

Cloud infrastructure costs

BigAnimal's cloud account

If you're connecting directly to BigAnimal through BigAnimal's cloud account, EDB bills you for cloud infrastructure. You can view monthly estimates for BigAnimal's cloud infrastructure costs while you're creating a cluster.

A BigAnimal infrastructure unit (BIU) is a unit of measure for cloud infrastructure resources, such as compute, storage, and data transfer. The nominal value of one BIU is $1.00. For example, an AWS compute instance priced at $0.192/instance-hour is multiplied by 1 BIU, so that the equivalent BIU cost is $0.192/BIU-hour.

Using your cloud account

If you're connecting directly to BigAnimal through your Microsoft Azure AWS, or Google Cloud account, EDB doesn't bill you for cloud infrastructure, such as compute, storage, data transfer, monitoring, and logging.

Your cloud provider bills you directly for the cloud infrastructure provisioned according to the terms of your account agreement.

• Microsoft Azure provides invoice and usage information on the Microsoft Azure Portal billing page. Learn more.
• AWS provides invoice information on the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. Learn more.
• Google Cloud provides invoice information on your Cloud Billing account. Learn more.

Management costs

To give you full control over your data, BigAnimal deploys infrastructure in each region to manage the clusters in that region. BigAnimal charges you for this infrastructure only if you're using BigAnimal's cloud. Your cloud provider (Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) bills directly for the infrastructure according to the terms of your account agreement.

If you deploy a large number of clusters in a single region, for example, more than 30, BigAnimal might deploy additional management infrastructure to support your workloads. In addition, BigAnimal provisions a number of other free resources in your account to help with management.

If you want to remove management resources provisioned from your cloud provider, contact Support.

Microsoft Azure management costs

The table shows a breakdown of management costs for Microsoft Azure:

At list price, estimated overall monthly management costs are $400–$700 for a single region. Check with your Microsoft Azure account manager for specifics that apply to your account.

To get a better sense of your Microsoft Azure costs, check out the Microsoft Azure pricing calculator and reach out to BigAnimal Support.

AWS management costs

The table shows a breakdown of management costs for AWS:

At list price, estimated overall monthly management costs are $400–$600 for a single region. Check with your AWS account manager for specifics that apply to your account.

To get a better sense of your AWS costs, check out the AWS pricing calculator and reach out to BigAnimal Support.

Apache Superset costs

Enabling Apache Superset to analyze your data has an added cost. In most cases the costs are approximately $150 per month, based on your cloud provider, instance and storage type selections, and other factors.

PgBouncer costs

Enabling PgBouncer to pool your connections incurs additional costs that depend on your cloud provider. In addition to the cloud provider costs, PgBouncer connects to your primary server and requires an IP address. BigAnimal provisions up to three instances per PgBouncer-enabled cluster to ensure that performance is unaffected, so each availability zone receives its own instance of PgBouncer. The extra VM costs are the 2vcpu SKU times the number of PgBouncer instances. For AWS, the instance type is c5.large. For Azure, the instance type is F2s_v2.

Payments and billing

Your payment and billing options include:

• Digital self-service using a credit card
• Direct purchase using the Sales Order form
• Azure Marketplace

Digital self-service

BigAnimal charges the credit card for your EDB account month to month and sends invoices to your email. This invoice includes database costs. If you're using BigAnimal's cloud account, it also includes infrastructure costs.

Direct purchase

If you're using BigAnimal's cloud account, you're invoiced monthly, or you can arrange for a longer term.

If you're using your Microsoft Azure or AWS account, usage details are included in your invoice. Account owners can download a usage report in CSV format from the BigAnimal Usage page. You can set the time frame, database type, and cloud provider prior to downloading the report. The information on the page refreshes hourly.

Azure Marketplace

If you're using Microsoft Azure Marketplace, all billing is handled directly by Microsoft Azure. This includes infrastructure costs as well as database costs. For database costs, Microsoft bills on actual hours in a given month. You can view invoices and usage on the Microsoft Azure Portal billing page. Learn more.

• On this page
• Database pricing
• Cloud infrastructure costs
• Management costs
• Apache Superset costs
• PgBouncer costs
• Payments and billing