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ms.author: prasadkomma
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ms.service: planetary-computer-pro
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 09/18/2024
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ms.date: 10/13/2024
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#customer intent: As a user, I want to understand the pricing structure for Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro so I can estimate costs.
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# Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro service usage meters
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Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro offers a pay-as-you-go usage model. You're charged for the resources you consume, providing flexibility and control over your spending. This article details the usage meters for the different components of the service.
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## Accessing usage metrics through the Azure portal
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## Access usage metrics through the Azure portal
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Detailed information about the utilization of your GeoCatalog resource is available in the Azure portal under **Monitoring**->**Metrics** in the resource view.
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Detailed information about the utilization of your GeoCatalog resource is available in the Azure portal under **Monitoring**>**Metrics** in the resource view.
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[![Screenshot how to access the service usage meters in the Azure portal.](./media/service-usage-metrics.png) ](./media/service-usage-metrics.png#lightbox)
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[![Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Metrics blade for a GeoCatalog resource.](./media/service-usage-metrics.png)](./media/service-usage-metrics.png#lightbox)
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## Service usage meters
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Usage of the service is measured with the following dimensions (no pricing values are shown in this document):
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Usage of the service is measured with the following dimensions:
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| Meter | Measured Units | Description |
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| **Capacity** | GiB-month | Ingested data stored after any cloud optimization and compression. |
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| **Operations** | 10K operations | Storage read / metadata retrieval operations (search, list, item/asset metadata access). |
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| **Ingestion & Transformation** | vCPU-hour | Compute consumed transforming data into cloud-optimized formats (for example COG generation). |
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| **Bandwidth** | GiB egress | Data transferred out of the Azure region hosting the GeoCatalog resource. |
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| **Geospatial Storage** | GiB-month | Ingested data stored after any cloud-optimization and compression. |
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| **Geospatial Data Operations** | 10K operations | Storage read / metadata retrieval operations (search, list, item/asset metadata access). |
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| **Ingestion & Transformation** | vCPU-hour | Compute consumed transforming data into cloud-optimized formats (for example COG generation) and ingesting data into GeoCatalog. |
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| **Bandwidth** | GiB | Data transferred out of the Azure region hosting the GeoCatalog resource. |
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All meters are calculated using binary gigabytes (GiB), where 1 GiB equals 1,073,741,824 bytes.
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### Capacity
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### Geospatial Storage
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Measured in GiB-month of data stored in your GeoCatalog (original plus derived / optimized forms). Includes any cloud-optimized representations generated by the platform.
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### Operations
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### Geospatial Data Operations
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Operations are read operations for data that is stored in managed storage. Common patterns include:
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* Use the SAS API to read stored data
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* Use the Data API to create a tile based on stored data
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Operations are read operations for data that is stored in the managed storage inside a GeoCatalog resource. Common patterns include:
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* Use the SAS API to read stored assets.
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* Use the Data API to render a tiles based on managed data.,
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Use of the [STAC API](./stac-overview.md) for querying or searching a catalog isn't considered a read operation.
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Measured in vCPU-hours consumed while ingesting and transforming source data (including optimization to formats such as COGs). Consumption varies with data volume and the format of the data.
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To help estimate what an ingestion operation could cost in vCPU hours, here are some benchmarks:
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To estimate your vCPU-hours, choose a data type similar to the one you plan to ingest:
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| Data Type | Format State | Description (Format / Bands) | Representative vCPU/GiB |
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| Data Type | Format State | Description (Format / Bands) | Representative vCPU-hours/GiB |
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| [Sentinel‑2 L2A](./data-visualization-samples.md#sentinel-2-l2a-collection-configuration) | Non-COG | GeoTIFF; 13 MSI spectral bands (B1–B12 incl. B8A, 10–60 m) plus QA masks | 0.50 |
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| Micro COG 1000 | COG | Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs (1000 2-10 MB files); Three bands (RGB) | 0.423 |
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| Aerial Orthomosaic | Non-COG | Orthorectified GeoTIFF mosaic; Three bands (RGB); large tiles | 0.20 |
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| [National Aerial Imagery Program](./data-visualization-samples.md#the-national-agriculture-imagery-program-collection-configuration) | COG | Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF; Four bands (RGB + NIR) | 0.030 |
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To estimate your vCPU-hours, select a data type that is similar to the one you plan on ingesting, and multiply the **Representative vCPU/GiB** value by the number of gigabytes of data you intend to ingest.
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To estimate your vCPU-hours, select a data type that's similar to the one you plan on ingesting, and multiply the **Representative vCPU-hours/GiB** value by the number of gigabytes of data you intend to ingest.
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> [!EXAMPLE]
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>Suppose you're ingesting 250 GiB of [National Aerial Imagery Program](./data-visualization-samples.md#the-national-agriculture-imagery-program-collection-configuration) (NAIP) data already in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format. Using the representative value of 0.030 vCPU/GiB from the table:
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> $250 \text{ GiB} \times 0.030 \frac{\text{vCPU-hour}}{\text{GiB}} = 7.5 \text{ vCPU-hours}$
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