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Essentials

Only Pay for What You Use

Through Essentials, our subscription-free tier, you pay only for the data you export from Notehub to your cloud application, making it perfect for developing PoCs, piloting projects or early-stage deployments.

While Essentials provides essential data routing from device to cloud, upgrading to Development unlocks a suite of premium features designed to optimize and accelerate your deployment.

Who is Essentials Designed For?

Projects that are looking to use Notehub exclusively as a device-to-cloud data pump, and do not want to use the advanced features to optimize their deployment.
Companies who are not currently focused on using Development’s features to optimize their deployment or gain deeper insight into their devices.
Projects that are prototyping or experimenting with Blues.
Companies that at the current stage of their business are comfortable with unpredictable monthly Notehub costs.

What are Consumption Credits?

Instead of paying a monthly subscription fee to use Notehub, users of Essentials are charged based on the amount of messages they export from Notehub to their cloud applications.

Users on the Essentials plan pay to export this data by pre-purchasing Consumption Credits. A Consumption Credit is a single event of either routing a data message from Notehub to the user application or reading a data message using Nothub API. As messages are routed/read, Consumption Credits are deducted, offering a flexible pricing model based on actual usage.

What Events Consume Consumption Credits?

Here’s a breakdown of the specific events and requests that consume Consumption Credits:

Service	CC Cost
Routed Event	1 CC
Event API Retrieval Request	1 CC
Other Notehub API Requests	.001 CC
Real-time Device Messaging*	1 CC
Notecard web request*	1 CC

What is the Pricing for Consumption Credits?

Companies on the Essentials plan will receive a monthly allocation of up to 5,000CCs for free. Beyond this 5,000CC top-up, Consumption Credits can be purchased on a sliding scale based on volume:

Consumption Credits	Price Per CC
15,000 - 499,999	$0.000750
500,000 - 9,999,999	$0.000563
10,000,000 - 19,999,999	$0.000375
20,000,000 - 49,999,999	$0.000225
50,000,000 - 99,999,999	$0.000188
100,000,000 +	$0.000150