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 estimateSelf-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 calculateSelf-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.
| Family | Best for | Memory per vCPU | Per vCPU per minute | Per vCPU per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development | Small sizes, to develop and try things out | 2 GB | €0.0008 | €0.0480 |
| Compute | Compute, little memory per vCPU | 1 – 2 GB | €0.0008 | €0.0480 |
| General | Everyday use, balanced memory | 4 GB | €0.0011 | €0.0660 |
| Memory | A lot of memory per vCPU | 8 GB | €0.0014 | €0.0840 |
| GPU | General vCPUs, plus the graphics card | 4 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.
Monthly total excl. VAT
€0.00
Sum of the workloads: instances × minutes × runs per month.
Prices exclude VAT. This is an estimate: the monthly invoice reflects the minutes actually used.
Full instance type price list
| Type | vCPU | Memory | GPU | Per minute | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development D0 | 0.25 | 0.5 GB | 0 | €0.0002 | €0.0120 |
| Development D1 | 0.5 | 1 GB | 0 | €0.0004 | €0.0240 |
| Development D2 | 1 | 2 GB | 0 | €0.0008 | €0.0480 |
| Compute C0 | 1 | 2 GB | 0 | €0.0008 | €0.0480 |
| Compute C1 | 2 | 4 GB | 0 | €0.0016 | €0.0960 |
| Compute C2 | 4 | 4 GB | 0 | €0.0032 | €0.1920 |
| Compute C3 | 8 | 16 GB | 0 | €0.0064 | €0.3840 |
| Compute C4 | 16 | 32 GB | 0 | €0.0128 | €0.7680 |
| General G0 | 1 | 4 GB | 0 | €0.0011 | €0.0660 |
| General G1 | 2 | 8 GB | 0 | €0.0022 | €0.1320 |
| General G2 | 4 | 16 GB | 0 | €0.0044 | €0.2640 |
| General G3 | 8 | 32 GB | 0 | €0.0088 | €0.5280 |
| General G4 | 16 | 64 GB | 0 | €0.0176 | €1.0560 |
| Memory M0 | 1 | 8 GB | 0 | €0.0014 | €0.0840 |
| Memory M1 | 2 | 16 GB | 0 | €0.0028 | €0.1680 |
| Memory M2 | 4 | 32 GB | 0 | €0.0056 | €0.3360 |
| Memory M3 | 8 | 64 GB | 0 | €0.0112 | €0.6720 |
| Memory M4 | 16 | 128 GB | 0 | €0.0224 | €1.3440 |
| GPU N1 | 4 | 16 GB | 1 | €0.0144 | €0.8640 |
| GPU N2 | 8 | 32 GB | 2 | €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
Slider from 8 to 256 in steps of 8. Each vCPU is billed at the price of its band; above 256, on quote.
Plan
Average price per vCPU per year
Annual total excl. VAT
This configuration is quoted on request.
Request a quotePrices exclude VAT. Unlimited users and agents, internal rebilling included.
| Open source | Essential | Enterprise | Sovereign | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size | No license limit | Up to 64 vCPU | Beyond 64, up to 256 vCPU | Air-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 agents | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Internal rebilling | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Vendor subscription: fixes delivered, qualified updates, signed images | — | Included | Included | Included |
| 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.
| Offer | Hosting | 4 vCPU, 16 GB, 1 hour | Per vCPU per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| graal, SaaS — jobs, notebooks, SQL, endpoints (General G2) | graal.systems | €0.264 | €0.066 |
| Databricks Jobs Compute Premium | AWS Paris | €0.29 | €0.072 |
| Databricks Jobs Compute Premium | Azure France Central | €0.395 | €0.099 |
| Databricks All-Purpose Compute Premium | AWS Paris | €0.53 | €0.13 |
| Databricks All-Purpose Compute Premium | Azure 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).
- Source: Databricks — Lakeflow Jobs (Jobs Compute) (accessed on 2026-10-26)
- Source: Databricks — DBU per instance type (accessed on 2026-10-26)
- Source: AWS — EC2 on-demand pricing (Paris region) (accessed on 2026-10-26)
- Source: Microsoft Azure — Databricks (France Central) (accessed on 2026-10-26)
- Source: Microsoft — Azure Retail Prices public API (D4s v3) (accessed on 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.
Discover the Data Platformgraal Agentic Platform
Your AI agents move your processes forward, under measured guarantees: workflows of agents and people, human approval, evidence and audit.
Discover the Agentic PlatformThe 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.
See the use caseTraining
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.