Case study · 8 min read

Billing a national research cloud: the SWITCH story

How a European research provider used Cyclops to meter and monetize a heterogeneous estate of compute, storage and networking — and gave every project a clear, auditable bill.

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Engineering · 6 min

Metering 100 million resources without blinking

The architectural choices that let a billing stack stay accurate and fast at exascale.

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Frontier · 5 min

What does a qubit-hour cost?

Bringing transparent, auditable accounting to quantum computing platforms.

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Sovereign AI · 7 min

Token-based metering for sovereign LLMs

How per-token accounting brings cost clarity and control to regulated AI datacenters.

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Integrations · 6 min

Slurm to invoice in six stages

Following a single HPC job through monitoring, metering, accounting, rating, charging and billing.

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Perspective · 4 min

Why monetization is a clarity problem

You cannot bill what you cannot see. A case for observability-first accounting.

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Europe · 5 min

Built by collaboration, engineered in Switzerland

How European research projects shaped a billing platform for the whole continent — and beyond.

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