◈ Agriculture

Planting, growing, harvest.
Compute for each season.
Paid for by the second.

Farms, agribusinesses and food producers work to a season, and so does their software: imagery during the growing months, logistics at harvest, planning through winter. Compute gives you the same machines as the leading cloud for less, with no reservation to carry through the quiet months.

Used by agritech start-ups, cooperatives, growers and Fortune 500 food and agribusiness groups for field data, analysis and supply.

30%
Under the leading cloud on GPU hours
Per-second
Billing through the season
Zero
Commitments or minimums
One
Bill across every operation

What this looks like in practice

◆Satellite and drone imagery analysis◆Field sensor and weather data◆Crop, yield and soil modelling◆Machinery telemetry and maintenance◆Traceability and food safety records◆Grower portals and contract management◆Harvest logistics and storage planning◆Satellite and drone imagery analysis◆Field sensor and weather data◆Crop, yield and soil modelling◆Machinery telemetry and maintenance◆Traceability and food safety records◆Grower portals and contract management◆Harvest logistics and storage planning
What holds true here

Four things you stop arguing about

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Imagery on GPUs, for less

Analyse imagery on L40S, A100 or H100 instances priced 30% under the leading cloud on-demand for the same GPU.

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A bill that follows the season

Capacity used heavily for a few months and barely the rest is billed by the second, not by the year.

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Traceability that holds

Records of origin, treatment and movement kept with a full history, ready when a buyer or inspector asks.

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Sensor data with somewhere to go

Field and machinery data queued and stored alongside the databases and tools that use it.

The shift

Seasonal work, seasonal bills

Agriculture has always managed costs to the season. Cloud infrastructure, bought by the year and sized for the busiest week, has been the exception.

The usual arrangement
  • ✕GPU capacity reserved for a season that lasts weeks
  • ✕Imagery processed late because capacity was rationed
  • ✕Traceability records kept in several places
  • ✕Sensor data on a separate platform from analysis
  • ✕Bills that do not match the calendar
What replaces it
  • ✓GPUs started for the analysis and stopped after
  • ✓Imagery processed while it still matters
  • ✓Records held together with a full history
  • ✓Telemetry, databases and tools on one platform
  • ✓Spend that rises and falls with the season
What you can count on

Stated plainly, and qualified

30%
Under the leading cloud on GPU hours
H100, A100 and L40S, against the leading cloud on-demand
30%
Under the leading cloud on CPU instances
Same specification, cheapest the leading cloud match
Per-second
Billing
No reservation through the quiet months
Published
Prices
With the leading cloud’s own beside them
Closer in

Agriculture, specifically

Imagery analysed while it still matters

A field scan is most useful in the days after it is taken. When GPU capacity is rationed, analysis waits and the window closes. On Compute the machines start when the imagery arrives and stop when it is done, priced under the leading cloud for the same GPU — for a single grower and for an agribusiness covering whole regions.

Grower portals from git

Contract, pricing and delivery portals deployed on Panel with your own domains.

Traceability on CosmoBase

Origin and movement records in managed databases priced under the leading cloud’s managed databases.

Telemetry on queues

Machinery and sensor data collected through Cloud Services queues and object storage.

Planning on CPUs

Yield and logistics models on CPU instances 30% under the leading cloud’s cheapest matching instance.

Against the leading cloud

Agriculture on Compute, against the leading cloud

L40S GPU hour
$1.30/hr
Leading cloud $1.86/hr · Same GPU (L40S)
30% less
A100 GPU hour
$1.92/hr
Leading cloud $2.74/hr · Same GPU (A100 40 GB)
30% less
4 vCPU / 8 GB server
$0.0941/hr
Leading cloud $0.1344/hr · Its cheapest machine with 4 vCPU and 16 GiB
30% less
Database
$0.0112 / database-hour
Leading cloud $0.016 / database-hour · Managed database, smallest instance
30% less

Compared with the leading cloud's own published on-demand prices, US East. Every comparison.

Questions we are actually asked

Answers without the hedging

Do we pay through the winter?+

Only for what runs. Machines are billed by the second and there are no reservations or minimum terms.

Is storage cheaper than the leading cloud too?+

We do not claim that. The 30% figure applies to GPU and CPU instances, managed database hours, build minutes, AI inference and support plans. Storage is priced separately and published.

Can we start small?+

Yes. There is a free allowance and no minimum spend, so an agritech start-up and a large producer start on the same terms.

Can buyers and inspectors trust our records?+

Records are kept with a complete change history, so what was recorded and when has a plain answer.

Other industries

Where else this goes

AI Agents

Run agents, the tools they call and the models behind them on one platform, billed by the token and the second, for less than the same work costs on the leading cloud.

Customer Acquisition

Host the landing pages, attribution pipelines and onboarding flows that bring customers in, and spend less on the infrastructure than you would on the leading cloud.

Marketing

Run campaign sites, personalisation, content pipelines and marketing data on one platform that costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines and models.

Lead Generation

Run the forms, enrichment jobs, scoring models and routing that turn interest into leads, for less than the same infrastructure costs on the leading cloud.

Sales

Run CRMs, sales data, call analysis and AI assistants on one platform, priced under the leading cloud for the same machines, databases and models.

Creator Economy

Host creator platforms, media processing, storefronts and AI tools on infrastructure that bills by the second and costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines.

Start where it matters most

Begin with one workload. Keep what you have running. Decide whether to continue once you have seen it carry something real.

No migration required to begin. Nothing to tear down if you stop.