# Starlight prices

All prices are in USD. Each charge is the exact price times the quantity, rounded up to the nearest millionth of a dollar.

## Sluice

Price list version `2ae36de767dc`.

### Processing a recording

Every recording goes through these steps. Each item is found in many frames, so one item usually adds several outlines.

| What | Price | Exact price per unit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finding and outlining an item in a frame | $0.0275 per 1,000 outlines | $0.0000275 per outline |
| Making an outline searchable by how the item looks | $0.00625 per 1,000 outlines | $0.00000625 per outline |
| Making an outline searchable by its description | $0.00125 per 1,000 outlines | $0.00000125 per outline |
| Matching an outline to the same item in other frames | $0.00025 per 1,000 outlines | $0.00000025 per outline |
| Cutting out a picture of an item | $0.006 per 1,000 pictures | $0.000006 per picture |
| Naming and describing an item | $0.01 per appearance of an item | $0.01 per appearance of an item |
| Receiving your recording | Free | Free |
| Writing down what is said in the recording | Free | Free |

### Extra work you ask for

These run only when you ask for them on a recording.

| What | Price | Exact price per unit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Looking closely at more frames of an item | $0.313 per 1,000 frames | $0.000313 per frame |
| Making a 3D model of an item | $0.025 per model | $0.025 per model |

### Storage

Your recording is stored while it is processed and deleted when processing is done. What is made from it, such as stills and the items found in it, is kept until you forget the recording.

| What | Price | Exact price per unit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Storing your recording and what is made from it | $0.015 per gigabyte for a month, charged by the second | about $0.00000000000578703703703704 per megabyte stored for one second |

### Rented graphics processors

Some recordings are processed on graphics processors we rent. For those, you pay for the processor's time, measured to the millisecond, instead of the prices per step above.

| What | Price | Exact price per unit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| NVIDIA L4 | $2.88 per hour | $0.0000008 per millisecond |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | $2.952 per hour | $0.00000082 per millisecond |
| NVIDIA H100 | $16.92 per hour | $0.0000047 per millisecond |

## Scan

Price list version `7893480246fe`.

### Storage

You pay for the space your photos and the items made from them take up, second by second, for as long as they are stored.

| What | Price | Exact price per unit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keeping your photos and items | $0.01575 per gigabyte for a month, charged by the second | about $0.00000000000607638888888889 per megabyte stored for one second |