Purchasing CSC’s services

Many of CSC’s services can be purchased if the terms of our free-of-charge use policy are not met. If you wish to purchase CSC services and expert support, please contact our Service Desk.

Details about purchasing specific CSC services and their pricing is available below. Please note that the service price list of the LUMI supercomputer is available on CSC’s main website.

Purchasing CSC services that use billing units

The use of Allas, cPouta, ePouta, Mahti, Puhti, Pukki, Rahti, SD Connect and SD Desktop services is measured primarily by billing units (BUs). To use them, you need to purchase our computing base package.

CSC’s computing base package 

Our base package is the minimum amount of billing units that you can purchase per project. This package can be used for computing, cloud and related storage resources, unless agreed otherwise.

The base package costs 1190 EUR (VAT 0 %). It includes:

• 20 000 BUs.
• 4 user accounts.
• Support from our experts via CSC Service Desk.

You can use our billing unit calculator to estimate how many BUs your project might require. If you would like to read more about billing units and their use in our services, please refer to our page on Resource allocation.

Additional resources

If you require more BUs or user accounts for your project than the base package provides, you do not need to re-purchase the same package. You can purchase additional resources separately as follows:

• 420 EUR per additional 20 000 BUs.
• 30 EUR per additional user account.

Please note that VAT is not included in the prices above.

Limitations

Please note that these services have certain quota limitations per project as well. See our page on Managing service quotas to find out which quotas may or may not be altered.

Purchasing other CSC services

The following CSC services are billed and purchased differently. Other services not listed here may also be available for purchase, please contact CSC Service Desk for more information.

LUMI

Up to a fifth of the computing capacity of the LUMI supercomputer is intended for commercial companies for research, development and innovation use.

Please note that LUMI does not use the same billing units and pricing model as most other CSC services. The LUMI billing policy and service price list are available in the LUMI user guide and on CSC’s website, respectively.

• LUMI billing policy
• LUMI supercomputer service price list

Chipster

For academic use, a personal Chipster user account costs 500 EUR per year. Corporate users can purchase personal (single-user) accounts or company accounts. Please contact CSC Service Desk for more information.

EUDAT services

The following tailored EUDAT services are available for purchase:

• B2SHARE and B2DROP: tailored to meet the specific needs of a community in terms of metadata, storage space, user management, and branding.
• B2SAFE: used to store, replicate and implement data management policies on research data repositories across multiple EUDAT service providers.

Please contact CSC Service Desk to learn more.

Kvasi

To use Kvasi, you will need a CSC project with access to Puhti supercomputer. The use of Puhti requires a CSC computing base package, which you will need to purchase first. The actual Kvasi package options are sold separately on top of that. More details about Kvasi packages and billing are available in Docs CSC.

Noppe

Noppe pricing is based on the amount of students, memory requirements, and duration of use. If you wish to purchase Noppe, please contact CSC Service Desk. We are happy to help you to set up your course and figure out the details, including total cost.