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NERC Pricing Calculator

The NERC Pricing Calculator is a google excel based tool for estimating the cost of utilizing various NERC resources in different NERC service offerings. It offers a user-friendly interface, allowing users to input their requirements and customize configurations to generate accurate and tailored cost estimates for optimal budgeting and resource allocation.

Start your estimate with no commitment, and explore NERC services and pricing for your research needs by using this online tool.

How to use the NERC Pricing Calculator?

Please note that you must make a copy of this tool before estimating any costs. Once copied, you can update the resource-type columns in your own working sheet, and the tool will automatically calculate your potential Service Units (SU), rates, and costs per hour, month, and year.

The tool contains five sheets at the bottom, as shown below:

Estimator Available Sheets

If you want to estimate costs based on the available NERC OpenStack flavors (which define the compute, memory, and storage capacity for your dedicated instances), you can select and use the second sheet titled "OpenStack Flavor".

For estimating the NERC OpenShift resource usage, use the first sheet titled "OpenShift SU" and enter the pod-specific resource requests in each row. If your application scales to multiple pods, add a separate row for each replica.

For the Storage cost calculation, use the third sheet titled "Calculate Storage".

For the BareMetal cost estimation, use the fourth sheet titled "BM SU".

Finally, the combined overall cost will be displayed on the last sheet titled "Total Cost".

For more information about how NERC pricing works, see How does NERC pricing work and to know more about billing process for your own institution, see Billing Process for My Institution.