Cost examples

Overview

Our cost examples are illustrative and serve as a guide for using CXFabric, providing context on potential expenses. They are not definitive or exhaustive since costs can vary based on individual use cases and infrastructure choices. Users should assess their specific needs and configurations to estimate their own hosting costs accurately.

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Breakdown

We are estimating an AWS cost per flow (cpf) of under 0.015 cents.

Explanation: our fixed daily AWS cost amounts to about $12. Given this baseline, we spent approximately $35.50 for executing load tests totaling more than 250,000 flow executions. Not all of the $35.50 can be attributed to the load testing but under the worst-case assumptions we ascribe the entire cost to exactly 250,000 flow executions. This evaluates to $35.5 * 100 (cents) / 250000 = 0.0142 cents.

Although self-hosted CXFabric platforms may run on other infrastructure with different “cost” to the customer, these tests give a useful “cost” benchmark. With a daily (intercept) cost of approximately $12, the annual base cost would be $4,380. Assuming that most customer integrations would execute five or fewer flows per invocation, 50,000 “invocations” would cost $35.50. The customer’s use case would dictate their expected annual total flow “budget.” For example, if an “invocation” was actually an incoming voice call, an “average” enterprise might receive 50,000 calls per month. That would suggest a “flow” usage adder to the base of $35.50 per month or $426 per year giving a total infrastructure cost of $4,806.