Credits and Quotas

Credits and Quotas#

All users receive 5 US$ in credits upon registration. As a user you may also purchase credits via Stripe whenever you want.

Credits are consumed based on the user’s resource usage. This includes factors like computation time and the specific machines utilized. For example, running a simulation on a high-memory machine will consume more credits than on a standard machine.

Real-time tracking of credit usage allows users to track and optimize their consumption efficiently and avoid unexpected shortfalls. Below we’ll describe the new tools that guarantee that users have full visibility over their available credits. If a user has insufficient credits to launch a new resource, a clear message will be displayed.

By understanding and managing their credits, users can optimize their resource usage ensuring they get the most value from their allocated credits while staying within their limits.

Quotas#

You’re free to use the Inductiva API as an individual user (starter plan) or join an organization (business or academia).

Quota

unit

scope*

Description

Starter

Business

Academia

Maximum number of VCPUs

vcpu

global

Total number of VCPUs across all running machine instances plus the number of VCPUs of the instance to be requested must not exceed the quota limit

300

10000

10000

Maximum price per hour across all instances

USD

global

Accumulated price per hour of all active machine instances, plus the price of the instance to be requested, must not exceed the quota

10

1000

1000

Maximum simultaneous instances

instance

global

Maximum number of machine instances running simultaneously at any moment

10

100

100

Maximum disk size

GB

instance

Maximum size of the disk that can be assigned to each individual machine in a machine group

1000

5000

5000

*NOTE: global quotas are applied to the user account and will encompass all machines and tasks submitted by the user. Instance quotas are applied to each machine and task and, therefore, are only applicable to each item individually.

FAQs#

When are credits and quotas verified?

Every time the user tries to register a machine or submits a task.

How to monitor your account details#

Inductiva’s CLI provides an easy way to monitor your account details and get information about your tier, credits and current quotas. Simply use the command inductiva user info:

$ inductiva user info
Name: <name of the user here>
Email: <user e-mail here>
Username: <username here>

■ Plan: Starter

■ Credits: 4.55 US$
■ Estimated Costs (current month):
    Computation: 0.35 US$
    Storage:     0.10 US$
    Total:       0.45 US$

■ Global User quotas
                                               CURRENT USAGE     MAX ALLOWED
 Maximum simultaneous instances                0 instance        10 instance
 Maximum price per hour across all instances   0 USD             10 USD
 Maximum number of VCPUs                       0 vcpu            300 vcpu

■ Instance User quotas
                     MAX ALLOWED
 Maximum disk size   1000 GB

This information is also available programmatically through the Python client:

import inductiva

inductiva.users.get_info() # <-- to get information about the tier and credits
inductiva.users.get_quotas() # <-- to get quotas

If any of these quotas establish a limit for what you can achieve with Inductiva API, please reach out to us and we can better understand your needs.

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