Estimating Costs

Can I estimate how much a render will cost me?

Boost for Daz uses fractional billing so you are only paying for what you use - right to the very second. Here’s how your costs are calculated for a session (all prices here are in US Dollars):

The key inputs into your final charges for a session are:

• Session Rate in cents/second = (Hourly rate of the selected machine, in cents)/ 3600 [A]

• Total Duration of your session (in seconds) [B]

You will be charged = [A] * [B] , which is [Session Rate (in cents) * Duration of your session in (sec)]

So, for example:

If you selected an NVIDIA RTX 4000 machine currently priced at $1.40/hour and you used it for 20 minutes, here’s how your total charges will be calculated:

Session Rate (in cents/sec): 112/3600 = 0.04 cents/sec [A]

($1.40= 140 cents and 3600 (= 60*60) are the number of seconds in one hour)

Total Duration of session (in sec): 1200 sec (=20 mins * 60 secs/min) [B]

Your total charge for a 20 min session on an RTX 4000 machine on Boost for Daz = [A] * [B]

=> [$0.04 cents/sec] * [1200 sec] => 48 cents

So, a 20 min session on an RTX 4000 at a $1.40 hour rate would cost you 48 cents.