Credits
After signing up, you receive 10 000 free credits that you can use for testing the UP42 platform. If you consume the free credits and wish to continue using the platform, you need to purchase a credit package. To view the available credit packages, please go to Pricing.
The Value of a Credit
An UP42 credit is the monetary unit used to set the price for the data and service usage available on our platform (data and processing blocks, tasking and catalog images, infrastructure costs etc.). One UP42 credit is equivalent to 1 Euro or US dollar cent and 100 UP42 credits are equivalent to 1 Euro or US dollar (see the conversion rate in the table below).
| Unit | Euro | US dollar |
|---|---|---|
| 1 UP42 credit | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| 100 UP42 credits | 1 | 1 |
How do Sign-up Credits Work in UP42?
New users get 10 000 sign-up credits or the equivalent of 100 Euro/US dollars.
With a business account, you can use sign-up credits to access all data and all algorithms on our platform. Some products are restricted to the general public (e.g. AIS data) and need additional screening via an access request form. When the provider grants you access, you can use your sign-up credits on the restricted products as well.
With a personal account, you can use sign-up credits to access only free data and all algorithms on our platform. Commercial data are restricted, but access can be granted on a case-by-case basis. For more information, please refer to Get Access to Commercial Data. Some products are restricted to the general public (e.g. AIS data) and need additional screening via an access request form. When the provider grants you access, you need to buy a credit package to use these products.
The table below explains which data and processing algorithms are unlocked with the 10 000 sign-up credits.
| Data and Algorithms | Business accounts | Individual accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Free datasets | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial datasets | Yes | No (access request form is needed) |
| Free algorithms | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial algorithms | Yes | Yes |
| Restricted data | No (access request form is needed) | No (access request form is needed) |
To find out which data and processing algorithms are covered by the sign-up credits for personal accounts, look up the keyword "signup" in the Marketplace. If you have a specific use case that you want to test using commercial datasets, please contact the sales team.
How to Purchase Credits
To purchase credits, go to Credit Management, add a credit card and select the preferred credit package. The minimum credit package is 500 Euro/US dollars (50 000 credits). For more information, please refer to Purchase Credits.
Terms and Conditions
- Credits are non-refundable.
- Credits expire after 24 months since they have been allocated to your account. For example, if you create an account on the 1st of January 2022 and you receive the 10 000 sign-up credits in the same day, you have to consume the credits in 24 months starting with the 1st of January 2022. The last day before the expiration date is 31st of December 2023.
- Credit packages can be customized. If you would like to buy credits in larger packages or are unsure about which credit package is right for you, please contact our sales team.
Credit Consumption
When running a job of a workflow on our platform, the credits are used for the following components:
- Data costs: how much data was consumed through a data block.
- Processing costs: how much data was processed through a processing block.
- Infrastructure costs: how much machine time was used during data consumption and computation. Please note that the infrastructure costs are not displayed in the job estimation. Currently, the job estimation can only calculate the overall credit costs needed for data and processing blocks. However, infrastructure costs can be viewed in the job dashboard (after running the job) and are usually negligible.
Your account balance needs to have minimum 1000 credits in order to run a job or order data.
Pricing
Data and Processing Blocks
Data and processing blocks have different prices, depending on the technical specifications (spatial, spectral, temporal resolution) and algorithm complexity (band math, deep learning, interferometry). The table below shows a brief comparison between the prices of data and algorithms.
| Pricing factors | Example | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Geospatial Dataset Type | Pléiades (High-resolution commercial images) Sentinel-2 (Low-resolution free images) | 1000 credits/sq. km. 0 credits/sq. km. |
| Algorithm Type | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Ship Identification Aircraft Detection | 25 credits/sq. km. 100 credits/sq. km. 300 credits/sq. km. |
The upstream providers who distribute their services via UP42 data or processing blocks set the price and the pricing unit: MB, square kilometers, scenes, megapixels, tiles etc. This information can be found in the block descriptions on the Marketplace.
Machine Type
Depending on the algorithm complexity, users can choose a machine type that is able to do extensive computations (see table below).
| Machine Type | CPUs | Memory (GB) | Credits (per hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| small | 0.5 | 2 | 4 |
| medium | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| large | 2 | 10 | 19 |
| xlarge | 4 | 20 | 38 |
| xxlarge | 8 | 40 | 76 |
| xxxlarge | 16 | 80 | 152 |
| gpu_nvidia_tesla_k80 | 4 | 20 | 99 |
| gpu_p100_xxl | 8 | 40 | 258 |
- All CPUs and GPUs are charged a minimum of 1 minute. For example, if you run your machine instance for 30 seconds or less, you will be billed for 1 minute of usage.
- After 1 minute, instances are charged in 1 second increments.
- Credit cost calculation is rounded up: any fractional credit usage gets rounded up to 1 credit. For example, 0.1 credit is billed as 1 credit.
| Machine Type | Example load |
|---|---|
| small | Data block that downloads images or a processing block with a very basic algorithm block. |
| medium | Processing block with a basic algorithm, e.g. K-means clustering UP42 demo block. |
| large | Multi-band imagery analysis not parallelizable with raster tiling. |
| xlarge | More advanced algorithms, e.g. Range Doppler Terrain Correction. |
| gpu_nvidia_tesla_k80 | GPU intensive ML algorithm, e.g., Sentinel 2 Super-resolution by UP42. Includes xlarge machine with NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU and extra 12 GB of GDDR5 SDRAM. |
VAT
VAT stands for Value Added Tax. UP42 GmbH is a company operating in the European Union (EU), therefore we are obliged to charge VAT for every monetary transaction taking place in our platform, which includes selling credits to our customers. It's important to note that the application of VAT depends on the legal status of a customer: company or private person.
If your company operates within the EU, a VAT identification number is necessary. The following information is also required: a billing address and a credit/debit card.
If you are a private customer based in Germany, you will also need to pay VAT at a current tax rate of 19%.