Cost Analysis

Cloud Provider Costs (Pass-through)

Customers pay for actual spot instance usage + small markup:

Component	Cost Structure
Spot instances	Provider spot price (pass-through)
Data transfer	Provider egress rates
Platform fee	5-10% markup on compute

Example Customer Bill

Customer: Example Corp - Monte Carlo Simulations
Period: January 2024

Workloads: 500 concurrent (avg)
Providers: AWS (60%), GCP (40%)

Compute:
  AWS c5.4xlarge spot (1000 hours) @ $0.25/hr  = $250.00
  GCP n2-standard-16 preemptible (800 hours) @ $0.20/hr = $160.00

Platform Fee (8%):                             = $32.80

Data Transfer:
  AWS egress (500 GB) @ $0.09/GB              = $45.00
  GCP egress (300 GB) @ $0.08/GB              = $24.00

Total:                                         = $511.80

Savings vs On-Demand:
  On-demand equivalent                         = $1,850.00
  Your savings                                 = $1,338.20 (72%)