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Gateway to Marlowe

DCU grant by IOG for projects and individuals looking to integrate Marlowe contracts

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Need more DCUs?

Demeter offers two ways of purchasing DCUs that are designed to adapt to projects of different sizes at different stages

Pay as you go

Buy the DCUs that you need, when you need them, no commitments, no monthly fees.

DCUs purchased in this way remain in the project's wallet until they are spent and will never expire.

This is ideal for projects that are just starting out and don't have a clear idea of how many DCUs they will need.

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Savings plans

The best way to get DCUs at a discounted price by committing to a pre-defined monthly spending.

At the moment of subscribing, a monthly billing cycle starts and the project's wallet is credited with the plan's corresponding DCUs that are bound to be spent during the following month.

At the end of each billing cycle, unspent DCUs from the plan will be burnt new DCUs will be added according to the plan while the subscription is active.

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Demeter savings plans

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Demeter always includes

Access to all extensions

A growing set of community developed extensions so you have all the tools needed for building on Cardano.

Unlimited collaborators

Easily manage team members in your organizations and grant them access to your projects, no limits!

Full network access

All workspaces and workloads have access to preview, preprod and mainnet Cardano Nodes.

Do you need a private cluster?

Private clusters are available for projects that require a dedicated infrastructure.

Request private cluster

What are DCUs?

Measuring usage

Demeter Compute Units (DCUs) are an abstraction layer implemented in Demeter to measure infrastructure usage.

Every enabled feature in your project consumes a certain amount of DCUs per unit of time depending on actual impact on resources consumption.

You can enable just the features that you need at the project level so you have total control over spending.

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Demeter DCUs charts

DCUs calculator

Select features from the grid to estimate your monthly price

Shared extensions instances

Cardano Node Mainnet
~3,600,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Node Preprod
~1,200,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Node Preview
~1,200,000 DCUs /month
Cardano DB-Sync Mainnet
~3,600,000 DCUs /month
Cardano DB-Sync Preprod
~1,200,000 DCUs /month
Cardano DB-Sync Preview
~1,200,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Submit API Mainnet
~4,500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Submit API Preprod
~1,500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Submit API Preview
~1,500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Kupo Mainnet
~1,000,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Kupo Preprod
~333,333 DCUs /month
Cardano Kupo Preview
~333,333 DCUs /month
Cardano Kuber Mainnet
~4,500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Kuber Preprod
~1,500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Kuber Preview
~1,500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Blockfrost RYO Mainnet
~4,500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Blockfrost RYO Preprod
~1,500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Blockfrost RYO Preview
~1,500,000 DCUs /month

Private extensions instances

Cardano Kupo Mainnet
~13,824,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Kupo Preprod
~7,862,400 DCUs /month
Cardano Kupo Preview
~7,862,400 DCUs /month
Cardano Webhooks Mainnet
~1,500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Webhooks Preprod
~500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Webhooks Preview
~500,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Hydra Node Mainnet
~3,600,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Hydra Node Preprod
~1,200,000 DCUs /month
Cardano Hydra Node Preview
~1,200,000 DCUs /month

Hosting

Frontend nano
CPU: 250m
Mem: 500Mi
~6,652,800 DCUs /month
Frontend small
CPU: 500m
Mem: 1Gi
~13,305,600 DCUs /month
Frontend medium
CPU: 1
Mem: 2Gi
~31,492,800 DCUs /month
Frontend large
CPU: 2
Mem: 4Gi
~62,985,600 DCUs /month
Backend nano
CPU: 250m
Mem: 500Mi
~6,652,800 DCUs /month
Backend small
CPU: 500m
Mem: 1Gi
~13,305,600 DCUs /month
Backend medium
CPU: 1
Mem: 2Gi
~31,492,800 DCUs /month
Backend large
CPU: 2
Mem: 4Gi
~62,985,600 DCUs /month

Tips for efficient use of DCUs

Connect only the necessary extensions

All connected extensions will consume DCUs even if they are not being used. Make sure you disconnect unused extensions on your projects.

Pause workspaces while not working on them

Running workspaces consume high amounts of DCUs. You can easily pause your workspaces when you are done for the day and start them back when you resume your work.

Delete unused workspaces

Workspaces consume DCUs even if they are paused. It's recommended to delete your temporary or abandoned workspaces, you can always create new workspaces as you need them.

Don't oversize your workspaces

Running workspaces consume DCUs according to their size. Make sure you select the right size for your project needs. Keep in mind that you can resize your workspace after it was created by editing the settings on your workspace detail page.

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