Managed Flink Operations — Pricing

Managed Flink Operations pricing combines two orthogonal choices: a Time Model (when we cover you) and a Pricing Model (how you pay). Pick the coverage window that matches your operational risk, then pick the billing structure that matches how you want to consume support.

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Time Models

Choose the coverage window that matches your operational risk and business requirements.

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9 to 5 Support

Business hours coverage, Monday through Friday. Scheduled maintenance, Flink upgrades, and issue resolution during working hours. Ideal for non-critical environments or teams that handle off-hours operations internally.

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Night & Weekend Support

Extended coverage outside business hours. Incident response for your Flink platform during evenings and weekends — so production issues don’t wait until Monday morning.

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24/7 Support

Round-the-clock coverage for mission-critical Flink deployments. Critical incident response any time of day, on-call rotation with Flink-specialized engineers, and guaranteed response times — including holidays.

On Demand Pricing

On Demand splits into two coverage windows — Daytime (8–5 weekdays) and Nighttime / Weekend (24/7 outside business hours) — each with their own base fee and per-incident hourly rates by severity. After the first 4 billed hours of any incident, the rate drops to the Low rate for the remainder of the work.

The base fees shown are the average for a typical mid-sized platform. Larger infrastructures (many jobs, complex topology, extensive state) carry a higher base fee — sized in your tailored proposal.

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Daytime (8–5, Mon–Fri)
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Nighttime / Weekend (24/7 outside daytime)
Base fee / month (avg., scales with platform size)CHF 1'733EUR 1'646USD 2'230CHF 1'737EUR 1'650USD 2'236
1hCriticalCHF 300 / hourEUR 285 / hourUSD 386 / hourCHF 380 / hourEUR 361 / hourUSD 489 / hour
4hMediumCHF 200 / hourEUR 190 / hourUSD 257 / hourCHF 300 / hourEUR 285 / hourUSD 386 / hour
8hLowCHF 180 / hourEUR 171 / hourUSD 232 / hourCHF 190 / hourEUR 181 / hourUSD 245 / hour
After first 4 hours (any severity)CHF 180 / hourEUR 171 / hourUSD 232 / hourCHF 190 / hourEUR 181 / hourUSD 245 / hour

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Flatrate Pricing

A flat monthly fee with 120 hours of work included per year (~10 hours / month). Use the included hours anytime — no Daytime / Nighttime split. Beyond the included hours, work is billed by severity at the rates below; rates drop to the Low rate after the first 4 billed hours of any incident.

The base fee shown is the average for a typical mid-sized platform. Larger infrastructures (many jobs, complex topology, extensive state) carry a higher base fee — sized in your tailored proposal.

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24/7 Coverage (120h / year included)
Base fee / month (avg., scales with platform size)CHF 7'344EUR 6'977USD 9'452
Overage hourly rates (apply after the 120h / year are used)
1hCriticalCHF 700 / hourEUR 665 / hourUSD 901 / hour
4hMediumCHF 560 / hourEUR 532 / hourUSD 721 / hour
8hLowCHF 280 / hourEUR 266 / hourUSD 360 / hour
After first 4 hours (any severity)CHF 280 / hourEUR 266 / hourUSD 360 / hour

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All-Inclusive Pricing

A flat monthly fee with unlimited support hours — no per-hour billing, regardless of severity or duration. Pick the response-time SLA tier that matches your operational risk; the monthly fee scales accordingly. Best for mission-critical platforms where you want zero variance in your support spend.

The fees shown are the average for a typical mid-sized platform. Larger infrastructures (many jobs, complex topology, extensive state) carry a higher monthly fee — sized in your tailored proposal.

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24/7 Coverage (unlimited hours)
Monthly fee (avg., scales with platform size)
1hCriticalCHF 12'750 / monthEUR 12'113 / monthUSD 16'408 / month
4hMediumCHF 10'200 / monthEUR 9'690 / monthUSD 13'126 / month
8hLowCHF 7'650 / monthEUR 7'268 / monthUSD 9'845 / month

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What’s Always Included

Every managed engagement is delivered by a Flink expert with production experience. The base fee covers production-grade monitoring and alerting, proactive capacity planning, runbook authoring and maintenance, Flink minor and major upgrade planning, quarterly platform health reports, and a defined escalation path with a named lead engineer. NDA-friendly setup with EU/CH data handling, invoiced monthly in EUR, CHF or USD.

Add-Ons

Optional additions priced per engagement and combinable with any pricing model.

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Dedicated SRE

Named senior SRE allocated full or part-time to your platform.

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Custom Dashboards & SLO Engineering

Tailor-made dashboards, SLO definitions, error-budget tracking.

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Security & Compliance Audits

Annual or semi-annual reviews against your regulatory framework.

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Disaster Recovery Drills

Scheduled DR exercises, including state recovery and cross-region failover.

Managed Operations FAQ

Which pricing model fits us?

It depends on your support volume. On Demand works well for teams with occasional issues — you pay a small base fee and only pay for actual incident time. Flatrate is ideal if you want predictable monthly costs with 120 hours/year of guaranteed availability. All-Inclusive gives you unlimited coverage and full peace of mind — best for mission-critical Flink platforms where you want zero risk of unexpected support costs.

What counts as an 'incident'?

An incident is a state requiring active engineering intervention to restore platform health — for example, a job stuck in a recovery loop, checkpoint corruption, sustained backpressure, or unplanned downtime. Routine ops (planned upgrades, capacity reviews, runbook updates) are part of the base fee, not incident hours.

Are 9-to-5 and Night & Weekend cheaper than 24/7?

Yes. Both the base fee and the per-incident hourly rates scale with the coverage window. 24/7 is the most expensive because it requires on-call rotation across timezones and weekends; 9-to-5 is the most cost-effective for non-critical workloads. Final numbers depend on your environment — they’re discussed in your tailored proposal.

On-prem vs cloud — same SLAs?

The response-time SLA is the same across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments. Note that cloud provider SLAs apply on top — if AWS or your cloud has an outage, our 1h or 4h response covers the time we engage, not platform restoration that depends on the provider.

Does the base fee include monitoring tooling licenses?

We deploy in your environment, using your tooling licenses (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.). We contribute Helm charts, Terraform modules, runbooks, and dashboards as code. Tooling licenses themselves are your cost.

How fast can we onboard?

Typically 2–4 weeks for handover. We allocate the first phase to runbook authoring, alerting tuning, and shadowing your existing on-call before transitioning ownership. For 24/7 All-Inclusive contracts, full coverage starts after handover is signed off.
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