DataKnobs can manage and host EKIP, data services, and approved AI models for you. Managed infrastructure runs against a prepaid usage budget with transparent metering, alerts, approval gates, and hard spending limits.
Platform value, managed operations, and variable provider consumption are separated so both parties can control financial risk.
Discovery, data integration, Knob configuration, evaluation, testing, and launch.
One-time scoped feeEKIP, governed Data Products, lineage, evaluation, monitoring, and optimization.
Annual subscriptionHosting, operations, observability, security maintenance, backup, and support.
Annual fixed feeCloud services, model endpoints, storage, networking, and third-party usage operate within an approved consumption budget.
Prepaid variable budgetThe prices listed include the DataKnobs intelligence platform and managed environment, with activation and variable provider consumption being charged separately.
Customers have visibility into fixed, scoped, and consumption-based costs.
$15K–$150K+ depending on integration and production complexity.
Based primarily on production Data Products and governed intelligence.
Fixed operations fee based on topology, environments, security, and SLA.
Cloud, LLM, storage, networking, and licensed third-party consumption.
These bands assist with financial planning; final estimates are based on workload profiling and a proof-of-value test.
Illustrative only. Final cost depends on providers, models, regions, record types, processing frequency, retention, availability targets, and workload architecture.
For workloads that are particularly volatile, either customer-owned infrastructure or a larger prepaid budget commitment is necessary.
| Consideration | Customer-owned infrastructure | DataKnobs-managed infrastructure |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud and LLM contracts | Customer contracts directly | DataKnobs operates within an approved budget |
| Provider consumption | Paid directly by customer | Prepaid and reconciled transparently |
| Environment operations | Customer or its managed provider | DataKnobs |
| Best fit | Large enterprises with existing cloud operations | Teams wanting a turnkey managed service |
| Cost variability risk | Held by customer | Controlled through budgets and hard limits |
| Recommended default | Enterprise default | Selective / qualified workloads |
The price shown includes the subscription to the intelligence platform and managed environment service, while the variable provider consumption is covered by a separate prepaid usage budget.
Analyzing thousands of small records or processing billions of documents or continuous multimodal streams are just some examples of workloads that may vary greatly. Unlimited pricing could either be too costly or result in low-volume customers subsidizing high-volume ones.
The customer can select from various options for their policy: hard stop, prioritizing noncritical work in the queue, reverting to lower-cost processing, decreasing sampling, or seeking approval for extra prepaid capacity.
The preferred model uses transparent provider-consumption reporting plus a clearly stated managed-environment fee. Taxes, provider commitments, and procurement charges should be defined in the order form.
Yes. Portability should be included in the architecture and agreement. Migration services may be separately scoped while the DataKnobs platform subscription continues.
Leverage customer-owned infrastructure for significant, unpredictable, sensitive, or heavily integrated workloads, particularly when the customer has existing enterprise cloud discounts and established platform operations.
DataKnobs analyzes the workload, predicts usage levels, implements controls, and begins operation with a prepaid budget and clear approval guidelines.
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