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Frequently asked questions

• How am I billed for the ForePaaS Platform?

  ForePaaS offers monthly or yearly subscription plans, and charges for additional computing resources and storage when they occur. While you pay for your subscription upfront (at the beginning of the month or year), resource and storage consumption is billed as it happens. This is similar to paying for your monthly apartment rent at the beginning of the month, and for your utilities like electricity as you consume them.

• How does the free trial work?

  All users get a 14-day free trial of the platform, no credit card required! Just sign up on the ForePaaS Platform and create an organization. After the free trial ends, you’ll be asked to get a pricing plan to continue accessing your project or to create new ones. If you have already used up your free trial on your account, you can still get one on a new organization by getting a Standard plan. You will get full access to all components on the platform for 14 days, after which your monthly or yearly subscription will begin.

• What are the resources I might consume on the ForePaaS Platform?

  Your projects will use different levels of computing resources, storage and Dataplants. ForePaaS measures computing resources as ForePaaS Units. Storage overage is built seperatly, on-demand. Dataplants are collaboration workplaces in which users carry out their projects. They are included in your pricing plans. Additional Dataplants can be rented at $0.05 per hour.

• What is a ForePaaS Unit?

  A ForePaaS Unit (FPU) is a unit of computing power, billed on per-hour usage. It is calculated for temporary data processing jobs and long-running deployments such as APIs or applications. FPUs are included in 2 of our subscription plans, and can be charged as overage if you exceed your monthly plan. Today, we’re offering one type of FPU, the FPU-Standard (FPU-S). The FPU-S represents approximately 0.5 vCPU and 2 GB of RAM based on hardware availability.

• What is a Dataplant?

  A Dataplant is a self-contained cloud environment used to carry out your data projects with your teammates. It offers all the tools and components required to manage a production-grade data and AI system, from processing to visualization. You can create as many Dataplants as you want.

• How are resource consumptions invoiced?

  Resources are invoiced on-demand, which means that you only pay for the resources you consume. Two of our subscriptions include a certain level of resources. You only pay for resource consumption that exceeds your plan.

• How many teammates can I add to my plan?

  ForePaaS charges per organization, not per user. You can add as many teammates and application end-users to your organization as you want, with any of our plans.

• Can I invoice multiple organizations independently?

  Yes. An organization is invoiced through a billing account, which is associated with a legal address and a method of payment. You can own several accounts. For example, you might want to be invoiced for different regions of operations or different departments.