Pricing
We are offering two pricing options for the Education Cloud: Pay-as-you-go and Virtual Datacentre.
Introductory free tier
New institutional customers (with ac.uk domains) can enjoy a free two month trial of our small Virtual Datacentre from our Virtual Datacentre tariff. You can also buy extra infrastructure during the free tier period.
Get in touch
For more about the Education Cloud products and pricing - including our introductory free tier for .ac.uk, please email us or call 01225 474300.Pay-as-you-go cloud services
The Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model associates a price with each of the Education Cloud products.
Account holders are billed monthly according to how much of each of the products they have used during the billing period.
Accounting information will be provided alongside all billing, to show the usage breakdown.
vCloud Compute PAYG
The vCloud Compute service follows an instance model - vCPU and memory bundled together into a single virtual machine and price:
| Linux Price / hour | 1 vCPU | 2 vCPU | 4 vCPU | 8 vCPU | 24 vCPU |
| 512MB | 1.2p | 1.4p | 1.5p | 1.6p | 1.7p |
| 1GB | 2.4p | 2.8p | 3.1p | 3.2p | 3.4p |
| 2GB | 4.8p | 5.6p | 6.2p | 6.5p | 6.7p |
| 4GB | 9.6p | 11.2p | 12.3p | 13.0p | 13.5p |
| 8GB | 19.2p | 22.4p | 24.6p | 25.9p | 26.9p |
| 16GB | 38.3p | 44.8p | 49.2p | 51.9p | 53.8p |
| 48GB | 115.0p | 134.5p | 147.7p | 155.6p | 161.5p |
| Windows Price / hour | 1 vCPU | 2 vCPU | 4 vCPU | 8 vCPU | 24 vCPU |
| 512MB | 1.4p | 1.7p | 1.8p | 1.9p | 2.0p |
| 1GB | 2.8p | 3.4p | 3.7p | 3.9p | 4.0p |
| 2GB | 5.7p | 6.7p | 7.4p | 7.8p | 8.1p |
| 4GB | 11.4p | 13.4p | 14.8p | 15.6p | 16.2p |
| 8GB | 22.8p | 26.8p | 29.5p | 31.2p | 32.4p |
| 16GB | 45.6p | 53.6p | 59.1p | 62.3p | 64.8p |
| 48GB | 136.7p | 160.8p | 177.2p | 187.0p | 194.3p |
VM Storage and File Storage PAYG
VM Storage (storage that is directly attached to virtual machines) is billed according to the average provisioned storage over the billing period (one month).
File Storage (storage accessed through a RESTful API) is billed according to the average utilised storage over the billing period (one month).
In both cases, the price per GB per month: 6.7p.
Connectivity PAYG
JANET Data transfer: Free.
First public IP address: Free.
Additional public IP addresses: 0.5p per IP address per hour.
Virtual Datacentre
Our vCloud Compute Virtual Datacentre tariff uses a reservation model. A customer can reserve a certain amount of CPU (GHz), memory (GB), VM Storage and File Storage (TB) and public IP addresses according to the sizes below.
The reserved amount is how much resource is guaranteed for the customer. Customers can run any combination of virtual machines up to their reserved CPU and memory. Any compute usage over your reserved amount will be charged according to the vCloud Compute PAYG. Any storage usage over your current tariff will be charged according to the VM Storage and File Storage PAYG prices.
We offer the following tariffs:
| Very Small | Small | Medium | Large | Very Large | |
| vCloud Compute CPU Reserved | 10GHz | 20GHz | 40GHz | 80GHz | 200GHz |
| vCloud Compute Memory Reserved | 20GB | 40GB | 80GB | 160GB | 400GB |
| Storage | 1TB | 4TB | 10TB | 20TB | 50TB |
| Approx Virtual Machines (not limit) | 13-25 | 26-50 | 51-100 | 101-200 | 201-500 |
| Public IP addresses | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| Price / month | £440 | £990 | £2,080 | £4,080 | £9,980 |
| Price / year | £5,070 | £10,940 | £21,790 | £45,740 | £93,120 |
A vCloud Compute Virtual Datacentre can be used to run both Linux and Windows virtual machines.
Terms and conditions
All prices shown are VAT exclusive.
The prices shown here are for the infrastructure and associated cloud platform (e.g. VMware vCloud) supporting virtual machines running either Linux or Windows. Where customers run other commercially licensed operating systems or application software on their virtual machines, they must ensure that it is appropriately licensed.
Read the full terms and conditions of our pricing.