Sustainability and pricing

2i2c pools resources from communities in order to sustain and grow our team. We do this by charging fees for our services, and supplementing these fees with grants and donations. These sections are living documents, and we update them regularly as we learn more.

You may find the prices of our services and their prices at the link below. It is a living document, and we will continue to update it as we learn more.

Our service offerings and prices

About our pricing

As a mission-driven non-profit, we work with stakeholders in the communities we serve to develop a sustainability model that is transparent and that enables us to accomplish our mission of empowering the research and education community. The sections below describe the strategy around our sustainability and pricing model, as well as details of our cost breakdown.

• Cloud costs
  • What components make up my cloud bill
  • User actions that impact cloud costs
  • Estimate my cloud costs
  • How we estimate cloud costs for communities
• Personnel costs
• Comparison to similar services
  • Major factors to consider
  • Overview of services
  • 2i2c’s managed cloud service
  • Internal staffing
  • Large-scale public infrastructure
  • Consulting companies
  • Software as a Service Products
  • Bottom line
• Pricing strategy and rationale
  • Guiding principles of our prices
  • Pricing structure
  • Base fees for three service types
  • What we are missing