With digital transformation gaining momentum across all industries over the past decade, the industrial data platform has become a key part of the infrastructure of many enterprises. However, specialized platforms that are built for and understand the needs of industrial customers are often exorbitantly priced, and reliance on these systems can have a significant impact on companies’ bottom lines. Startups and enterprises with small profit margins are particularly affected by the traditional pricing structure of industrial data software, often turning the necessity of digital transformation into an impossibility.
Traditional Pricing Structure
Traditionally, industrial data systems are priced based on the number of data streams, often known as tags, that will be stored. Customers are required to sign a contract for a software license covering the number of tags that they have chosen. The large upfront fee typically included in this contract can make changing systems or testing new products prohibitive, especially for smaller companies — but the time and money spent on licenses is a major drawback for enterprises of all sizes.
Even more importantly, as business grows, it is necessary to renegotiate existing contracts to include additional data streams. This is true even if your hardware resources are sufficient to support your datasets. In short, traditional pricing models are not designed to scale with your business, but to squeeze additional profits for the vendor out of your company’s success.
TDengine: A New Approach
TDengine not only brings new technology to the industrial data platform — it also brings a modern pricing structure. As a modern data historian, TDengine provides transparent, predictable pricing based on the number of compute resources that you require. In fact, our cloud service pricing plans are public information and are shown in the following table.
| Starter | Small | Medium | Large | XLarge | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (Monthly) | $820 | $1,640 | $3,290 | $6,570 | $13,150 |
| CPUs | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 |
| Memory (GB) | 4 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 64 |
| Storage (GB) | 200 | 400 | 1,000 | 4,000 | 10,000 |
| Egress Data (GB) | 50 | 200 | 500 | 1,000 | 2,000 |
Each of these plans includes the option to purchase additional storage for $0.20 per gigabyte per month. Note that using the PI or OPC connectors with any plan will incur additional charges. There is no license negotiation required to use TDengine and no upfront fees.
The cloud native, distributed architecture of TDengine allows you to scale out the platform by adding extra nodes, potentially supporting the collection and processing of data from millions of devices at an affordable cost. In addition, its high performance design ensures that ingestion and query speeds do not deteriorate even with large-scale datasets, even those with high cardinality. Try TDengine today and experience a industrial data platform that helps you go digital without hurting your bottom line.