◈ Waste management

Every round planned.
Every tonne recorded.
For less than the leading cloud.

Collection and recycling businesses run on thin tolerances: routes, weighbridge tickets, permits and returns that have to reconcile. The software behind that should be dependable and unremarkable to pay for. Compute runs the same machines as the leading cloud for less, and bills only for the time they run.

Used by local operators, recyclers and national service groups for routing, telemetry and regulatory reporting.

Per-second
Billing on every machine
30%
Under the leading cloud on CPU instances
Zero
Minimums or reservations
One
Bill for the whole estate

What this looks like in practice

◆Collection route planning and optimisation◆Vehicle telemetry and bin-lift data◆Weighbridge and transfer-station systems◆Customer booking and missed-collection portals◆Waste transfer notes and duty-of-care records◆Permit and returns reporting◆Recycling stream and materials analytics◆Collection route planning and optimisation◆Vehicle telemetry and bin-lift data◆Weighbridge and transfer-station systems◆Customer booking and missed-collection portals◆Waste transfer notes and duty-of-care records◆Permit and returns reporting◆Recycling stream and materials analytics
What holds true here

Four things you stop arguing about

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Routing when it is needed

Route optimisation runs overnight or after a disruption, then stops. Per-second billing means you pay for the run, not the day.

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Records that reconcile

Tickets, transfer notes and collections held together, so a returns figure can be traced back to the lifts that produced it.

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Lower price, same machine

CPU instances priced 30% under the cheapest the leading cloud instance with the same vCPUs and memory, published alongside the leading cloud’s figure.

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Steady through the peaks

Bank holiday catch-ups and seasonal garden waste bring bursts of bookings. Capacity rises for them and falls back after.

The shift

From fixed infrastructure to a bill that follows the rounds

Operational software in this sector tends to be sized once and left alone. That is safe, and expensive. The alternative is not risk; it is paying for what actually ran.

The usual arrangement
  • ✕Routing servers running all day for a job that takes an hour
  • ✕Telemetry, portals and reporting on separate bills
  • ✕Returns assembled by hand from several systems
  • ✕Capacity bought for the peak and idle the rest of the year
  • ✕Cloud spend that nobody can tie to a contract
What replaces it
  • ✓Optimisation runs billed by the second, then stopped
  • ✓One bill across hosting, databases, storage and code
  • ✓Returns drawn from records that already agree
  • ✓Capacity that rises for the peak and falls after it
  • ✓Spend itemised by service and by contract
What you can count on

Stated plainly, and qualified

30%
Under the leading cloud on CPU instances
Against the leading cloud’s cheapest instance with the same specification
30%
Under the leading cloud’s managed databases
Per managed database-hour
Per-second
Billing
On every Compute Instance
None
Commitments
No reservation, no minimum term
Closer in

Waste Management, specifically

The overnight run, priced honestly

Tomorrow’s rounds are planned in a burst of computation and then nothing happens until the next night. Paying for a server around the clock for that is a habit, not a requirement. On Compute the run starts, finishes and stops billing — whether you plan ten vehicles or several thousand.

Telemetry without the sprawl

Vehicle and lift data queued and stored in Cloud Services, alongside the systems that use it.

Records on CosmoBase

Tickets and transfer notes in managed databases priced 30% under the leading cloud’s managed databases per database-hour.

Portals residents can use

Booking and missed-collection pages deployed from git on Panel, with your own domain.

Reporting without a scramble

Returns drawn from records that were kept correctly at the time, not reconstructed at the deadline.

Against the leading cloud

Waste Management on Compute, against the leading cloud

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
Business support
$70.00 / month
Leading cloud $100 / month · Business support plan, monthly minimum
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

Is it really less than the leading cloud?+

For CPU and GPU instances, managed database hours, build minutes, AI inference and support plans, yes: 30% under the leading cloud’s published price, which we show beside ours. Storage and bandwidth are not on the same terms and we do not claim they are.

Can it carry a national fleet?+

Yes. The platform is used by single-depot operators and large groups alike. You add capacity when you need it and stop paying for it when you do not.

What about our regulatory reporting?+

Records are kept with a complete change history, so a figure in a return can be traced to its source. Where a regulator asks for something specific, tell us and we will say plainly whether we meet it.

Do we need to sign a contract?+

No. Usage is billed as it happens, with no minimums. Support plans are monthly.

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.