What is the Predix Free Tier Plan? We introduced the Predix Free Tier Plan in November 2016, so developers can subscribe to Predix and continue to explore features and build simple apps (including prototypes) beyond the Predix Fee Trial Offer period.
Why does GE provide the Predix Free Tier Plan? We offer the Predix Free Tier Plan in reply to popular demand from Predix users in the Predix Developer Forum and among Feature Requests. Users can explore Predix beyond the time limit set by our 60-Day Free Trial Offer that expired on February 8, 2017.
How does the Predix Free Tier Plan differ from the Predix Free Trial Offer? The Predix Free Tier Plan and the Predix Free Trial Offer serve differing purposes. The Free Tier Plan is designed to be a perpetual plan with limited services functionality. It is not designed to be used to run and operate production solutions; it is designed to be used to build proofs of concept and to experiment with Predix. Customers will have access to Predix services, but only to a limited usage of these services.
The Predix Free Trial Offer is a time-delineated trial offer where customers have unlimited access to Predix services, but for a limited time. At present the period for the Predix services is sixty (60) days. At the end of this period, customers will need to move to a paying plan to continue to use Predix services or to move to the Free Tier Plan.
Is the Predix Free Tier Plan available indefinitely? The Predix Free Tier Plan does not have a fixed expiration date. GE reserves the right to modify or cancel the Predix Free Tier Plan at any time. GE also reserves the right to stop accepting new account registrations at any time. See the Terms and Conditions section below.
What are the technical limitations of the Predix Free Tier Plan? There are certain technical limitations as part of the Monthly Free Quota which are described in the table below, that limit available memory, storage, catalog service consumption, and/or other services available under the Predix Free Tier Plan. GE Digital reserves the right to enforce those technical limitations.
How can users select a Predix paid plan? Users can upgrade from a Predix Free Tier Plan to a paid plan and create new service instances as desired by adding a valid payment method to a Predix account.
How can I switch or downgrade from a Predix Paid Plan to the Predix Free Plan? Users can sign-in to Predix, visit the Console, click “Change Plan”, then select Free Plan.
Can new users register and still get the Predix Free Trial Offer? The Predix Free Trial Offer is no longer available for new Predix registrants. Instead, users interested in trying out certain services at no charge may subscribe to the Predix Free Tier Plan.
How can Predix Free Trial account holders track current consumption under the new Predix Free Tier Plan? The Predix.io site displays the most current org consumption levels of services, memory, and storage for all users.
What happens if I exceed a quota? If you exceed certain Monthly Quotas and we do not support a feature to delete data selectively, you may be required to delete your entire instance to continue using the service.
What is the complete list all Predix Tier Plan services? The Predix Free Tier Plan gives individual developers hands-on experience with the Predix platform, including a quota of services to build prototypes and/or run a Reference Application. After creating your Predix account, you can use any of the free services listed in the table below (within the Free Monthly Quota).
| Service | Description | Free Monthly Quota |
| Platform Subscription | Get access to the Predix platform | 4GB memory, 40 Routes, 750MB Instance Memory, 10 Service Instances |
| Analytics Catalog | Use this service to manage analytic assets authored by Data Scientists | 1 GB Storage, 10 Validation executions |
| Analytics Runtime | Use this service to support elastic execution of the analytic orchestration | 5 Production analytics, 0.1 GB Memory per analytic execution |
| UAA | Use this service as a multi-tenant identity management service in Cloud Foundry that's also available as a standalone OAuth2.0 server | 1,000 Tokens issued |
| Access Control | Use this service to provide a more powerful authorization framework than the basic User Account and Authorization (UAA) service | 1,000 Evaluations |
| Time Series | Use this service to efficiently manage, distribute, ingest, and store time series data | 100k Datapoints, 2 Concurrent connections |
| Asset Data | Use this service to create and store asset models that describe machine types, as well as create instance representations for them | 5 Domain objects, 1k Domain object instances |
| Views | Use this service to control the layout and components within your client-side web or mobile app | Access to view library |
If you exceed your Free Monthly Quota in any month, we may, at our option a) enforce the Free Monthly Quota with a technological limitation that prevents you from exceeding the Free Monthly Quota or b) or terminate or suspend your account. In both instances, you will be notified prior to GE Digital taking this action and given the option to move to a paid plan. In addition, you will be notified once the action has been taken.
Terms and Conditions: The services are governed by the Predix Customer Agreement (available at predix.io/legal).
In addition, the following special terms and conditions apply only to the Predix Free Tier Plan:
We may modify or discontinue the Predix Free Tier Plan, in whole or in part, by providing you with at least 30 days’ prior notice, which may include posting a notice to this Website or updating this FAQ.
We may terminate or suspend inactive accounts, duplicative accounts, or accounts not in good standing in accordance with GE’s published policies, as may be updated from time to time upon notice to you, including by posting a notice to this Web site or updating this FAQ.
We will not charge you under thePredix Free Tier Plan if your usage remains below the Free Monthly Quota allocations. The Free Monthly Quota allocations do not roll over from month to month. Allocated resources may not be aggregated or shared with other accounts.
We may terminate your account if we believe you have created multiple or duplicative accounts to circumvent usage limitations.
If you exceed your Free Monthly Quota in any month, we may, at our option: 1) enforce the Free Monthly Quota with a technological limitation that prevents you from exceeding the Free Monthly Quota; 2) terminate or suspend your account.
We may stop accepting new accounts under the Predix Free Tier Plan at any time.
If we terminate or suspend your account, we may delete your account, including erasing Your Content, without prior notice to you, and we do not have any obligation under the Predix Free Tier Plan to assist or permit you to retrieve or migrate Your Content after termination of your account.
ALL SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU UNDER THE PREDIX FREE TIER PLAN ARE PROVIDED “AS IS”, “WHERE IS” AND “WITH ALL FAULTS”. ALL SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THE PREDIX FREE TIER PLAN WILL BE CONSIDERED “TRIAL SERVICES” AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED AND USED IN THE PREDIX CUSTOMER AGREEMENT.
Platform Subscription : 4GB memory, 40 Routes, 750MB Instance Memory, 10 Service Instances
750MB Instance memory : Is it
Max amount of RAM allowed/4GB for an app instance ? Or
Disk storage limit for the org ?
750MB instance memory means, one instance of your app/service can scale only to 750MB of memory. 4GB is the total memory of all your apps/service in your org.
Disk storage is default per instance of 2GB. There is not much you can do with that disk storage and it is used to store the artifacts of your service/app only.
Thanks Siva. That clarifies it.
Follow-up question on disk space : Is it droplet size or just the artifact developer uploads ?
Also what's the default disk_quota value ? Few of the CF documentations mentions it as 1024M. If that's the case, will it restrict developers to just 2 per org. If yes, can we add a recommendation on the freemium FAQ, for developers to include disk_quota allocation as part of app push,
You are right. The default per app is 1024M. The max you can go to is 2048M. That is what I meant in my comment above. This is per app. There is no upper quota limit on the total disk space of all your apps. Since you are anyway restricted to 40 routes, the disk space gets automatically capped. So you should not be restricted by the disk space when it comes to deploying of apps except that each app or service cannot allocate more than 2GB.
The disk space is used by the container to store exploded content of the artifact uploaded by the "cf push" command.
Thanks a lot Siva. If it's per app instance then as you said, it should be good enough.
I am trying to switch to the Free plan but I am getting an error. Anybody can help?
Please open a support ticket and they should be able to assist you.
Hi,
I want to test out Your Database as a service, the pricing provided on the website is per month and I want to know that if I run the database for an hour to try out the codes provided in your documentation and then delete the instance and service then how will I be charged. Will it be on a prorated basis like other cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) and how will it be calculated, is it per hour, per minute, or per second billing.
Regards, Aniruddha Roy
You would get charged for one day of use for that database and prorated to that amount.
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