Pricing
There are two types of costs associated with using Juno.
- Operating costs for your mission control, satellites and orbiters
- Costs for executing transactions with Juno
Last update: Dec. 3, 2024
Operating costs
As the owner of your mission control, satellites and orbiters, you are responsible for their operating costs.
To ensure that your infrastructure usage is covered, you must maintain a minimum balance of cycles.
You can top up your cycle balance in the Juno console through one of the following methods:
- Using ICP from your wallet.
- Purchasing cycles with Stripe, thanks to our friends at cycle.express.
- Transferring cycles between modules, such as moving cycles from one Satellite to another.
Transaction costs
New developers who join Juno are granted credits to create a mission control and their initial satellite.
To create additional satellites, a fee of 0.4 ICP is necessary, along with the infrastructure costs for setting up the smart contract.
Similarly, enabling analytics by creating an orbiter entails a fee of 0.4 ICP, plus the infrastructure costs for creating the smart contract.
Please note that additional transaction fees may be introduced in the future, and pricing and models are subject to change.
Estimating Costs
Below are a few examples of costs provided for explanatory purposes only and without guarantee. Please note that these cost estimates are subject to change and may vary depending on network conditions and usage patterns.
You can use the Pricing Calculator to get a better rough estimate of how much your project might cost.
Storage
The estimated annual cost of storing 1 gigabyte of data in a smart contract is $5.
To calculate the estimated monthly cost for 1 gigabyte of storage, you can refer to the table provided on the Internet Computer website.
| Transaction | 13-node Application Subnets | 34-node Application Subnets |
|---|---|---|
| GB Storage Per Second | $0.000000169749 | $0.000000443960 |
| Derived to a 30-day month | $0.439 | $1.149 |
| Derived to a 12-month year | $5.268 | $13.788 |
Deployment
Based on our experimentation, deploying an entire website on-chain, such as the website http://juno.build, which consists of approximately 900 files (including compressed versions of the files) and is 40 MB in size, is estimated to cost around 0.114 T Cycles, which converts to 0.0105 ICP ($0.15).
It's important to note that subsequent deployments of your project can have significantly lower costs if the build consistency of your application is maintained. Juno only uploads new files to your satellites, which helps reduce costs compared to initial deployments.
Data
Querying data on the Internet Computer is currently free, so there are no additional costs to expect when reading data.
In terms of persisting data, based on our experience, storing 100 instances of a JSON sample data with approximately 90 fields, totaling around 900 bytes, costs approximately 0.0005 TCycles or 0.00017 ICP ($0.000675). This means that the cost for a single transaction of this nature would be approximately 0.000005 TCycles or 0.0000017 ICP ($0.00000675).