The free tier includes $15 worth of usage per month. The free tier estimates are based on the following assumptions:

• Queries: 50,000 queries read 0.0075 GB per query with the P1_X_SMALL Propeller at $0.03, totaling $11.25 monthly.
• Writes: 1 GB of data writes at $0.05 per GB, totaling $0.05 monthly.
• Storage: 10 GB stored for every hour of a 30-day month, totaling $3 monthly.
• Embeddable dashboards:  Coming soon.
• Embeddable components:  Coming soon.

Yes, you can use Propel’s free tier forever.

Data written is data that you write into Propel Data Pools in the form of:

• Data ingested into Data Pools.
• Data updated or deleted in Data Pools.
• Data inserted by Materialized views into Data Pools.

Data read by queries is the volume of data Propel needs to scan to answer a query. The amount depends on the size of your dataset and the complexity of your query.

For example, a query for the last 24 hours on a small dataset will read less data than a query for the last five years on a large dataset.

The easiest way is to sign up for the free tier and build a proof of concept. In the API Playground, you can see how much data is read by each query you run.

Capacity commitments give you volume discounts. Contact sales for more information.

If you don’t use the committed amount within a year, it rolls over to the next as long as you renew the capacity contract.

Yes. You can expect a compression ratio of 2-3x depending on the data.

Propel measures the amount of data stored in Data Pools every hour. At the end of the month, It sums all the GBs counted and multiplies them by the GB-hour price.

Data is stored in AWS us-east-2 region. If you have requirements to deploy in another region, please contact sales.