Pricing

NeSI has rich experience and advanced capabilities in High Performance Computing (HPC) and data science engineering focused on powering Aotearoa New Zealand science.

 

Service Subscriptions

NeSI has a range of options for accessing its services and building your research capabilities. Subscribing to NeSI's services provides you with:

  • Managed entitlements on NeSI's HPC and AI platform for your research projects and programmes, including access to:

    • high-capacity CPUs, GPUs and high memory nodes

    • interactive computing via Jupyter Notebooks, containers, and virtual lab environments

    • an extensive pre-built software library

    • data storage for compute, from the highest performance storage on NeSI's HPC platform or via NeSI's long-term storage Nearline Service

  • Personalised support to assist your researchers across the breadth of their NeSI experience, from applying for projects/allocations, to getting their projects running on the platform, to general troubleshooting or experimenting with new tools or techniques.

  • Targeted support for building researchers' computational skills and capabilities. NeSI's Consultancy Service provides dedicated scientific and HPC-focused computational and data science support to research projects across a range of domains.

  • Advice and partnership on advanced research computing strategies and collaboration on shared goals.

 

HPC Platform

The following pricing table covers NeSI's core HPC Platform service offerings:

Last updated June 2025 - prices are subject to change.

Offer
Public sector & not-for-profit
Commercial

Research Software Expertise

 

 

Computational science and data science engineering Consultancy (per hour)

$160.00

$320.00

High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Analytics

 

 

Mahuika Broadwell* HPC core hours (per CPU core hour)

$0.05

$0.07

Mahuika Milan HPC core hours (per CPU core hour)

$0.08

$0.09

Mahuika Genoa HPC core hours (per CPU core hour)

$0.08

$0.09

P100 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) hours (per GPU hour)

$0.35

$0.40

A100 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) hours (per GPU hour)

$0.90

$1.00

H100 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) hours (per GPU hour)

$0.90

$1.00

L4 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) hours (per GPU hour)

$0.90

$1.00

Research Data Management

 

 

Nearline / Freezer long-term storage (per Terabyte per year)

$30.00

$37.50

Persistent storage (>2 TB) (per Terabyte per year)

$150.00

$187.50

National Data Transfer Platform membership & managed endpoint (per year)

$4,000.00

$P.O.A

*Mahuika's Broadwell nodes are in the process of being decommissioned. The final day of user access to these nodes was Friday 27 June 2025.

 

Research Developer Cloud

Billable services in the Research Developer Cloud include:

  • Virtual Machines (VMs)
  • General Purpose Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)
  • Storage

Last updated September 2024 - prices are subject to change.

 

Virtual Machines (VMs)

Regular VMs

  • The flavours available by default are the balanced VMs with 1 CPU to 2GB RAM ratio.
  • They are named balanced1.1cpu2ram and increment up to balanced1.32cpu64ram.
  • The price scales linearly with the number of cores in the VMs.
 
Public sector & not-for-profit
 
Flavours
Price per hour ($)
Price per month ($ in approximation)

balanced1.1cpu2ram

0.039

28.50

balanced1.2cpu4ram

0.078

56.99

balanced1.4cpu8ram

0.156

113.98

balanced1.8cpu16ram

0.312

227.96

balanced1.16cpu32ram

0.625

455.92

balanced1.32cpu64ram

1.249

911.85

 

High Memory & Development VMs

The Research Developer Cloud also offers high memory flavours (memory1) and flavours designed for quick development and test purposes (devtest1): 

  • high memory flavours having 1 to 4 ratio of CPU per GB of RAM
  • development focused flavours with 1 to 1 ratio

Please contact us if you would like to access these specialised compute flavours.

 
Public sector & not-for-profit
 
Flavours
Price per hour ($)
Price per month ($ in approximation)

memory1.1cpu4ram

0.062

45.59

memory1.2cpu8ram

0.125

91.18

memory1.4cpu16ram

0.250

182.37

memory1.8cpu32ram

0.500

364.74

memory1.16cpu64ram

0.999

729.48

memory1.32cpu128ram

1.999

1,458.96

devtest1.1cpu1ram

0.028

20.35

devtest1.2cpu2ram

0.056

40.71

devtest1.4cpu4ram

0.112

81.42

 

General Purpose GPUs

General Purpose GPUs are currently accessible as a whole node or half a node of A40 GPUs. The GPU flavour won’t be visible by default on your project.

We will be working on making vGPU access available in smaller portions instead of the whole node. Please contact us if you would like to access them.

 

 
Public sector & not-for-profit
 
Flavours
Price per hour ($)
Price per month ($ in approximation)

gpu1.44cpu240ram.a40.1g.48gb

3.672

2,680.43

gpu1.88cpu480ram.a40x2.1g.48gb

7.344

5,360.85

 

Storage

 
Public sector & not-for-profit
 
Storage type
Price per hour ($) per GB
Price per month ($ in approximation) per GB

Flash

0.0005

0.37

Spinning disk

0.0002

0.12

 

If you have questions or would like to learn more about a Subscription to any of the NeSI services outlined above, get in touch.