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Use the cluster you already own alongside rented cards

One place to see both, and one meter that understands the difference between hardware you are paying for by the second and hardware you already bought.

Everything below describes what this is being built to do. It needs Compute, which you can look around today but cannot yet use for the whole of this job. The problems are real now; the answers are the part still being built.

Hardware you already bought and hardware you are renting are the same workload and two different tools.

Why it is hard

  • Two control planes, one job

    Owned capacity and rented capacity are managed separately, so the workload that spans both is stitched together by hand.

  • The comparison is impossible to make

    Working out whether the owned cluster is cheaper than renting requires putting two incompatible cost models side by side.

  • Bursting is a manual decision

    Reaching for rented capacity when the cluster is full is something somebody notices and does, usually later than they would have liked.

What answers it

  • Both appear in one place

    The intent is that your own cluster sits beside rented capacity rather than in a separate tool.

  • One meter across both

    The useful part is not the connection but the reporting: hardware you own and hardware you rent by the second in the same ledger.

  • Outbound, from your side

    The connection is expected to be made out to us, which is the shape that does not ask you to open anything to the internet.

How billing works

usage_eventsbilled per second, EURlaunchmeter starts with the containerheartbeat10s at the price frozen at matchstopmeter stops, nothing after
heartbeatsent twiceusage_eventsledger_entriescharge · provider_share 85%account_balancesa view: sums, never a columnone fresh row, summedthe retry: unchangedunique(instance_id, seq)

per second, to the microeuro · no minimum · no egress fee · idle costs nothing

Metering starts when the container does and stops when it stops. The rate is frozen the moment you match, so a provider re-pricing cannot change a running rental, and an aborted run costs what it used.

Access is not built. There is no connector and this describes the intended shape.