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Pay nothing till you deploy the project to productionGet a free, full-featured sandbox **Get up to $250 wallet credits *

You will only be charged once you deploy your project to the production environment. This charge will be based on:

  • The number of calls per Catalyst component and function execution time.
  • The component used and the Catalyst credit corresponding to the component usage.

What sets us apart?

Free, full-featured sandbox

You can use all of the Catalyst components and deploy your project in the development sandbox free of cost, unlike any other vendor in the industry. You pay nothing when your code is not running.

Usage-based pricing

Pay only for what you use. Depending on your usage, Catalyst will automatically ensure that you always end up paying a lower bill. How? See example below.

Example  

Zylker Technology runs an ecommerce website for selling chocolates and candies. They store the backend information in Catalyst and use its Zia OCR feature to detect handwritten wishlists and add those items to cart. Candy sales are consistent throughout the year, but the website sees peak traffic during Halloween. Let's look how billing would work for them in two scenarios, in a low traffic month (September) and a high traffic month (October).

September

Operation TypeNumber of CallsNumber of Credits per callTotal Credits
Data Store insert5000210,000
Data Store update5000210,000
Function calls with 2 seconds of execution time with 128 MB of memory500015,000
Zia OCR3000100300,000
 Cost as per light usageCost as per heavy usage
Usage fee per credit
Fixed fee
Total credits consumed325,000325,000
Total price
(325,000*)
(+[325,000*])

Monthly cost to business =

How? Catalyst automatically calculates the pricing basis the light usage and heavy usage plans, and bills whichever is lower. In this example, the business will pay instead of , and save 39% of cost through usage-based pricing.

October

Operation TypeNumber of CallsNumber of Credits per callTotal Credits
Data Store insert50,0002100,000
Data Store update50,0002100,000
Function calls with 2 seconds of execution time with 128 MB of memory50,000150,000
Zia OCR30,0001003,000,000
 Cost as per light usageCost as per heavy usage
Usage fee per credit
Fixed fee
Total credits consumed3,250,0003,250,000
Total price
(3,250,000*)
(+[3,250,000*])

Monthly cost to business =

How? Catalyst automatically calculates the pricing basis the light usage and the heavy usage plans, and bills whichever is lower. In this example, the business will pay instead of and save 75% of cost through usage-based pricing.

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Catalyst does not follow a subscription model. That means you don't have to commit to any long-term contracts or license agreements. (Did we mention that signing up takes less than 10 seconds?)

Per component credit charges

Functions 

Functions are charged based on the length of the execution.

Execution Time (in seconds)Credits
<10.5
1-51
5-105
10-1510
15-3015
30-6030
60-12060
120-300120
300-600300
600-900600

Memory Cost

Memory (MB)Credits proportionate to execution time
1281
2562
5124

Method of calculation = Number of Function executions * Number of credits for Function execution time * Number of credits for memory configured

Circuits 

Circuits are charged based on the number of state transitions.

Operation typeCredits
State transition1

Data store 

Catalyst data store is charged based on the number of I/O calls and the amount of data stored in the data store.

Operational Cost

Operation TypeCredits
Insert2
Delete2
Update2
Select1
Search2

Storage Cost

StorageCredits
Up to 2 GB (approx. 1 million rows)0
1 MB (~500 rows)*5000

File store 

File store is charged based on the number of uploads and number of downloads to the file store and the amount of data stored in the file store.

Operational Cost

Operation TypeCredits
Upload4
Download2

Storage Cost

Operation TypeCredits
Up to 10 GB (~2000 image files)0
1 GB50

Cache 

Cache is charged based on the number of I/O calls and the amount of data stored.

Operation TypeCredits
Put2
Get1

Storage Cost

StorageCredits
Up to 10 MB(Approx 2000 keys)Free
1 MB(Approx 200 keys)50

Intelligence by Zia 

The AI and ML services offered in Catalyst are charged based on the number of successful calls made to each of these services.

FeatureCredits
OCR100
Object Recognition100
Face Analytics100
Barcode Scanning100
AutoML100/Request
Free model training
Image Moderation100

Services 

Catalyst offers various services to empower your applications - they're all charged based on the number of times they've been invoked.

ServiceCredits
API Gateway1/Requests
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)1/Function Executions
Web Client Hosting1/GET requests
Emails50/Emails
Push notifications25/notifications
Application Alerts - Email Alert50/alert

Additional Services 

Catalyst offers Automation Testing, an automated API testing tool that can be used to test all API endpoints accessible to an application.

Additional ServiceCredits
Automation Testing500 free test case/project
250/test case run

Pricing Calculator

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Type

Credits

Functions

Number of function calls
1,000Calls
 
Average execution time
1Seconds
 
Memory Configured for the Function
256MB
1,000Credits

Circuits

State transition
0Transitions
0Credits

Data store

Operational Cost
Insert
1,000Calls
2,000Credits
Delete
1,000Calls
2,000Credits
Update
1,000Calls
2,000Credits
Select
1,000Calls
1,000Credits
Search
1,000Calls
2,000Credits
Storage cost
Storage
(approx 2 GB)
1,000,000Rows
FreeCredits

File store

Operational cost
Upload
1,000Calls
4,000Credits
Download
1,000Calls
2,000Credits
Storage cost
Storage
10GB
FreeCredits

Cache

Operational Cost
Put
1,000Calls
2,000Credits
Get
1,000Calls
1,000Credits
Storage cost
Storage
10MB
FreeCredits

Intelligence by Zia

Operational Cost
OCR
0Calls
0Credits
Object Recognition
0Calls
0Credits
Face Analytics
0Calls
0Credits
Barcode Scanning
0Calls
0Credits
AutoML
0Requests
0Credits
Image Moderation
0Calls
0Credits

Services

Operational Cost
API Gateway
0Requests
0Credits
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
0Function Executions
0Credits
Web Client Hosting
0Get Requests
0Credits
Emails
0Emails
0Credits
Push notifications
0Notifications
0Credits
Application Alerts - Email Alert
0Alerts
0Credits

Additional services

Automation Testing
500test case runs
FreeCredits
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Total CreditsBilled Monthly
19,000
22.8

*This calculator provides only an estimate based on your inputs. Actual billing will be based on your actual usage.

Total Credits : 19,000

Billed Monthly : 22.8

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