Pricing

Public prices, per minute or per vCPU

Both platforms are open source, under the Apache 2.0 license. In SaaS, you pay by the minute for the resources your workloads reserve, from start to finish. Installed on your premises, graal is an annual per-vCPU subscription, with unlimited users and agents. All prices exclude VAT.

Two billing models

Per minute as SaaS, per vCPU on your premises

The same measurement engine serves both models: what is reserved on the cluster, in instance type and minutes.

SaaS · per minute

graal hosted by the vendor

From €0.0008 per vCPU per minute. One rate for jobs, notebooks, SQL and endpoints. One invoice per month; the current month’s costs are visible in the console before the invoice.

See the price list and estimate

Self-hosted · per vCPU per year

graal on your premises

On your infrastructure or at a qualified host: €290 per vCPU per year for vCPU 1 to 64, €190 for vCPU 65 to 256. The software stays open source, under the Apache 2.0 license.

See the plans and calculate

Self-hosted · included

Internal rebilling

The platform computes costs per project, job, workflow and workspace, at your own price grid, and exports them: you rebill your departments and teams.

SaaS · per minute

Pay for the reserved minute, not the month

One rate, whatever the usage: job, notebook or workspace, SQL, endpoint. Billing runs from the effective start of the workload to its end, per started minute; time in the queue is not billed.

Price per vCPU per minute, in euros excluding VAT
FamilyBest forMemory per vCPUPer vCPU per minutePer vCPU per hour
DevelopmentSmall sizes, to develop and try things out2 GB€0.0008€0.0480
ComputeCompute, little memory per vCPU1 – 2 GB€0.0008€0.0480
GeneralEveryday use, balanced memory4 GB€0.0011€0.0660
MemoryA lot of memory per vCPU8 GB€0.0014€0.0840
GPUGeneral vCPUs, plus the graphics card4 GB+ €0.0100 / GPU+ €0.6000 / GPU

The price of an instance is its number of vCPU multiplied by the rate of its family, plus €0.0100 per GPU per minute for GPU types. The calculation is the same for every usage. Storage and outbound traffic are not billed.

SaaS calculator

Add one or more workloads: the total updates as you type.

Prices exclude VAT. This is an estimate: the monthly invoice reflects the minutes actually used.

Full instance type price list
The 20 instance types and their prices, in euros excluding VAT
TypevCPUMemoryGPUPer minutePer hour
Development D00.250.5 GB0€0.0002€0.0120
Development D10.51 GB0€0.0004€0.0240
Development D212 GB0€0.0008€0.0480
Compute C012 GB0€0.0008€0.0480
Compute C124 GB0€0.0016€0.0960
Compute C244 GB0€0.0032€0.1920
Compute C3816 GB0€0.0064€0.3840
Compute C41632 GB0€0.0128€0.7680
General G014 GB0€0.0011€0.0660
General G128 GB0€0.0022€0.1320
General G2416 GB0€0.0044€0.2640
General G3832 GB0€0.0088€0.5280
General G41664 GB0€0.0176€1.0560
Memory M018 GB0€0.0014€0.0840
Memory M1216 GB0€0.0028€0.1680
Memory M2432 GB0€0.0056€0.3360
Memory M3864 GB0€0.0112€0.6720
Memory M416128 GB0€0.0224€1.3440
GPU N1416 GB1€0.0144€0.8640
GPU N2832 GB2€0.0288€1.7280

Self-hosted · per vCPU per year

A per-vCPU subscription, unlimited users

The vCPU counted is the CPU quota of the execution space, where your workloads run. You set it yourself; it is measurable, capped and verifiable. Each vCPU is billed at the price of its band: the total never decreases when you add a vCPU. Adding a person or an agent does not change the price.

Free

Open source

Apache 2.0 license

€0

no subscription, no royalties

  • The code of both platforms
  • Install and use without us
  • Unlimited users and agents

Annual subscription

Essential

vCPU 1 to 64

€290

excl. VAT per vCPU per year

  • Vendor subscription and 8×5 support
  • Unlimited users and agents
  • Internal rebilling included

Annual subscription

Enterprise

vCPU 65 to 256

€190

excl. VAT per vCPU per year, on top of the previous band

  • Vendor subscription and 8×5 support
  • Several entities on one installation
  • Internal rebilling included

On quote

Sovereign

Air-gap, escrow, or more than 256 vCPU

On quote

depending on your context

  • Offline installation
  • Source code escrow
  • For government, defence and health

3-year commitment: −15%

On the per-vCPU price, for a subscription signed for three years.

24×7 support: +25%

8×5 support is included; 24×7 is an option on top.

Internal rebilling included

You set your own price grid and rebill your departments and teams.

Self-hosted calculator

Prices exclude VAT. Unlimited users and agents, internal rebilling included.

Comparison of self-hosted plans
Open sourceEssentialEnterpriseSovereign
SizeNo license limitUp to 64 vCPUBeyond 64, up to 256 vCPUAir-gap, escrow, or more than 256 vCPU
Price excl. VAT per vCPU per year€0€290 (vCPU 1 to 64)€190 (vCPU 65 to 256)On quote
Users and agentsUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Internal rebillingIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Vendor subscription: fixes delivered, qualified updates, signed images—IncludedIncludedIncluded
Vendor support—8×5 included, 24×7: +25%8×5 included, 24×7: +25%Tailored
3-year commitment—−15%−15%On quote

Benchmark

For 4 vCPU and 16 GB over one hour

Public prices read on 2026-10-26, excluding negotiated discounts and storage. Databricks prices add DBUs and the cloud provider’s virtual machine.

Price comparison for 4 vCPU, 16 GB, one hour
OfferHosting4 vCPU, 16 GB, 1 hourPer vCPU per hour
graal, SaaS — jobs, notebooks, SQL, endpoints (General G2)graal.systems€0.264€0.066
Databricks Jobs Compute PremiumAWS Paris€0.29€0.072
Databricks Jobs Compute PremiumAzure France Central€0.395€0.099
Databricks All-Purpose Compute PremiumAWS Paris€0.53€0.13
Databricks All-Purpose Compute PremiumAzure France Central€0.56€0.14
  • Instance compared: 4 vCPU and 16 GB (m5.xlarge on AWS, D4s v3 on Azure). At graal, General G2: 4vCPU, 16 GB, €0.0044 per minute, or €0.2640 per hour.
  • Databricks Jobs on AWS Paris: 0.69 DBU per hour × $0.15 per DBU + $0.224 per hour for the machine, i.e. $0.3275 per hour; converted at €0.88 per $1, the rate implied by published Azure prices. On Azure France Central: 0.75 DBU per hour × €0.264 + €0.1971 per hour for the machine.
  • Databricks bills per second (one-minute minimum in serverless); graal bills per started minute. Databricks prices exclude disks, public IP addresses and storage.
  • At graal, the same rate applies to jobs, notebooks, SQL and endpoints. Databricks does not publish an offer installable on your own infrastructure on its pricing pages (2026-10-26).

Two platforms

One, the other, or both

The Data Platform and the Agentic Platform are independent: each one installs, runs and is bought on its own. Together, they complement each other: the Agentic Platform’s agents operate the Data Platform through its MCP server, under a service account scoped to one project.

graal Data Platform

From source to model in production, on your infrastructure: pipelines, orchestration, lakehouse, notebooks, ML and generative AI, governance.

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graal Agentic Platform

Your AI agents move your processes forward, under measured guarantees: workflows of agents and people, human approval, evidence and audit.

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The subscription

What the vendor subscription includes

GRAAL.SYSTEMS SAS, the vendor, stands by you to run the platforms in production.

Vendor support

One French counterpart for your platform, data and security teams. 8×5 included, 24×7 optional.

Security fixes

Fixes are delivered with their release notes: you apply them at your own pace.

Qualified updates

Every release is qualified by the vendor before it is offered to you, with its release notes.

Signed images

Images are signed and pinned by digest: you verify their origin before installing them.

graal Services

The vendor at your side

graal Services come on top at a fixed price or on quote, depending on your needs.

Integration

Installation on your infrastructure, connection to your SSO, your data sources and your tools.

Migration

Your Python and Spark jobs brought over from Saagie, Hadoop or a SaaS platform.

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Training

For your data teams, your platform team, your security teams and the teams that hand work to agents.

Operations

Monitoring, upgrades and support of the platforms, on your infrastructure.

Public buyers

Buying graal

Two French public procurement mechanisms let you start without a lengthy procedure.

Procedure exemption. Since 1 April 2026, a supplies or services contract below €60,000 excluding VAT can be awarded without prior advertising or competitive tendering. The pilot is sized below this threshold.

Innovative procurement. Since 1 July 2026, a purchase the buyer qualifies as innovative can be awarded without advertising or competitive tendering up to the applicable European threshold, i.e. €140,000 excluding VAT in 2026 and 2027. The first-year subscription and integration can fall under it.

We help you size a first order below these thresholds and gather the documents your procurement department needs.

FAQ

About billing and pricing

Is the software free?

The code of both platforms is open source, under the Apache 2.0 license: you can install and use it without us, with no subscription and no royalties. What you pay for is the vendor at your side: SaaS, the pilot, the subscription and graal Services.

Can we take only one of the two platforms?

Yes. The Data Platform and the Agentic Platform are independent: each one installs, runs and is bought on its own. They complement each other if you take both: the Agentic Platform’s agents operate the Data Platform through its MCP server, under a service account scoped to one project.

Why subscribe if the code is open?

Because running a platform in production takes more than code: someone who answers, security fixes, updates the vendor has qualified before offering them to you, signed images whose origin you can verify. You can also do without: no subscription is required to use the software.

How is the minute counted?

Billing runs from the effective start of the workload, meaning its first moment in execution, to its end, per started minute: 61 seconds count as 2 minutes. Time spent in the queue or pulling an image is not billed, and neither is a workload that never started.

Is a cancelled run billed?

Yes, up to the cancellation: the minutes elapsed since the effective start are due, like for a run that completed.

What do we pay for a notebook, a workspace or an endpoint?

The same as for a job: the reserved instance type multiplied by the minutes it runs. There is one rate, whatever the usage. Workspaces, endpoints, warehouses and managed streams are closed out every month so the invoice follows the period.

Can we follow our costs before the invoice?

Yes. In SaaS, the current month’s costs are visible in the console before the invoice, computed the same way, by project, job, workflow and workspace, with the utilization rate of the reserved resources. On your premises, the platform breaks them down the same way, at your price grid, and exports them for your internal rebilling.

How is the invoice issued?

One invoice per month, numbered in a continuous sequence per calendar year (GS-2026-0001, GS-2026-0002…). An issued invoice is never deleted: a mistake is corrected by a credit note, numbered in the same sequence. Payment is manual by default; online payment is an option.

What is the difference between SaaS and an installation on my premises?

In SaaS, the vendor hosts and operates graal: you pay for usage, by the minute. Self-hosted, graal runs on your infrastructure or at a host of your choice, which you pay directly: you take an annual subscription per vCPU of the execution quota, and no usage invoice is issued in the vendor’s name.

Which vCPU count applies when self-hosted?

The CPU quota of the execution space, where your workloads run. You set it yourself; a “Subscription” page in the console shows the subscribed vCPU, the quota and the peak actually allocated over the period.

How do we rebill internally?

The platform administrator sets their own internal price grid. The platform then computes costs per project, job, workflow and workspace, and exports them. Internal rebilling is included in the subscription.

Are storage and outbound traffic billed?

No. Only reserved compute is billed; storage and outbound traffic are neither measured nor billed.

Are prices negotiable?

The prices on this page are those of the public price list. Above 256 vCPU, for an air-gapped deployment or one with source code escrow, or for a tender, we draw up a quote.

Is the pilot paid?

Yes, at a fixed price, on one platform or both. It is sized to stay below the procedure exemption threshold for public buyers.

Who provides support?

The vendor, GRAAL.SYSTEMS SAS, as part of the subscription. graal Services cover integration, migration, training and operations.

What if we stop?

The software is open source: it stays installed on your side and keeps running. Pipeline code is exportable and formats are open: you keep your work and your data.

Need something outside the grid?

More than 256 vCPU, air-gap, source code escrow, tender requirements: we quote your case after a first conversation.