Cost Calculator

You're planning a new environment. Three VMs, a couple of volumes, maybe some snapshots for backup. How much will it cost? Right now, you're either guessing or opening six Outscale documentation tabs to look up per-hour pricing and doing math in a spreadsheet.

That spreadsheet will be wrong. Not because you're bad at math — because Outscale pricing has enough variables that even careful people miss things. Per-second billing on instances, IOPS tiers on volumes, snapshot storage costs that scale with retention. It adds up in ways that aren't obvious until the first invoice arrives.

What it does

Cost Calculator lets you spec out an infrastructure and see the monthly cost — before you deploy anything. Pick your instance types, define your volumes, add your snapshots, and get a number. A real number, based on current Outscale pricing.

But the real power is comparison. For every configuration, you see three prices side by side:

• On-demand 24/7 — running everything all the time, no commitments
• Scheduled — running only during your defined hours (e.g., 50h/week instead of 168h)
• Reserved — committed pricing for 1-year terms

That side-by-side is where decisions happen. When you can see that scheduling dev VMs saves €4,200/month compared to on-demand — and that reserved instances only save €1,800 — the choice makes itself.

How it works

Open the calculator. Add resources: instances, volumes, whatever your architecture needs. For each resource, pick the specs — instance type, volume size and IOPS tier, snapshot retention count.

The calculator pulls current Outscale pricing and computes three scenarios instantly. Change the schedule — say, 10 hours a day instead of 8 — and the numbers update live. Add an instance, remove a volume, the total adjusts.

When you have a configuration you're happy with, share it. The calculator generates a public link — anyone with the link sees the same breakdown. No login required. Send it to your manager, your finance team, your client. They see the specs, the costs, the comparison. No "let me pull up the spreadsheet."

Shareable quotes mean everyone works from the same numbers. No more debates about what the infrastructure "should" cost.

Why it matters

Bad estimates cause two problems. Underestimate, and you blow your budget and scramble for approvals mid-quarter. Overestimate, and you reserve budget you don't need — money that could have gone elsewhere.

The calculator eliminates both failure modes. You get accurate estimates before deployment, so budgets are right-sized from day one. And the scheduling comparison often reveals savings that teams didn't know existed — because nobody had done the math before.

For consulting teams and MSPs, the shareable link is a game-changer. Build a quote in five minutes, send a link, close the conversation. No attached Excel files, no "I'll get back to you with numbers." The numbers are the link.

Estimate before you deploy. Try the calculator free on Vextnd.