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Usage and billing

Institutions need to know what they will be charged for before they commit. This page, published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), explains how use of Foundry is designed to be metered, where the service boundary sits and the rule that no charge applies unless it was disclosed in writing beforehand. No prices are published on this page, and no charges apply at the current stage. Information and enquiries are open today.

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01Workspace

The workspace for usage and billing.

Workspace and job console

Usage and billing · Project space 12 · Cluster east · Example interface, not a record

  • Jobs running
    27Active
  • Queue wait, p50
    4minNormal
  • Runs today
    8695
  • Quota used, % this month
    46Watch
IllustrativeGCRI · Foundry

Jobs

J-77135Flood model ensembleProject owner00:20:12Running
J-81662Tile render, zoom 0 to 12GIS workspace00:04:40Running
J-56559Evidence exportModel steward00:00:43Done
J-91785Agent tool call batchAgent sandbox00:01:10Policy block

Policy events

  1. 10:24GateAgent call needs human approval
  2. 10:29InfoRun record sealed
  3. 11:34WarnQuota at 80 pct for project
Workspace and job console.Illustrative interface; not live data.

Foundry · Workspace and job console. Workspace and job console: example names and illustrative values, not a record.

02Current state

Nothing is billed today.

At the current service level, Foundry provides information and receives enquiries. Contribution payments and computing allocations open only when their service team, terms and review capacity are in place. An enquiry never creates a charge.

03Metering

How use is designed to be measured.

Attribution

Metered to a project

Use is recorded and attributed to the programme and project that incurred it.

Units

Declared service units

Compute, storage and system use are measured in units defined in the agreement before work starts.

Separation

Cost kept apart from results

Usage is metered independently of scientific state, so budget pressure cannot change whether a result is reproduced or accepted.

04Service boundary

What is and is not part of the service.

  • The service covers the systems, rooms and support named in the institutional agreement.
  • Infrastructure contributed by others is recorded as an offer, not as reserved, consumed or funded capacity, until it is separately allocated.
  • Rails records instructions and receipts between institutions; it never moves funds itself.
  • Third-party services a project chooses to connect are governed by their own terms.
  • Offered capacity from a contributor never appears on a statement as if it were consumed or paid for.
05No undisclosed charges

Charges are written down first.

  1. 01

    Disclosure

    Any fee appears only with the issuer, currency, effective date and applicable schedule recorded in writing.

  2. 02

    Agreement

    Use is governed by an institutional agreement with the contracting party, GCRI Canada, or as that agreement provides.

  3. 03

    Statements

    Metered use is reported to the project owner against the agreed units.

  4. 04

    Disputes

    A question about a charge is reviewed by someone not responsible for the contested decision.

06Questions

Questions and answers.

How much does Foundry cost?
No prices are published. Terms are set in a written institutional agreement before any use is charged.
Does membership include compute?
No. Neither membership nor sponsorship secures a compute allocation, and a payment is never access to restricted data.
Can ordinary participants be charged?
Ordinary participation in working groups and learning carries no fee. Correction and integrity routes are never paywalled.
Who do I ask about terms?
Write to the partnership form. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Can I see my project’s usage?
The design reports metered use to the project owner against the agreed units, attributed to programme and project, so the owner can check it against the agreement.
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