Commitment Plans for Reduced Compute Costs

Overview

Rescale now offers Commitment Plans, a prepaid compute option that reduces per-workload costs for organizations with predictable simulation workloads. Commit a portion of your compute spend at a discounted rate and let the platform apply savings automatically.

  • Coretype Plan is available today. Commit to fixed cores on a specific coretype for up to 60% savings vs On-Demand Priority rates (full negation on committed cores).
  • Rescale Savings Plan is coming soon. A flexible, dollar-based commitment that covers multiple coretypes and regions under a single plan.

Highlights

Automatic Savings. No Workflow Changes.

Commitment Plans use invisible orchestration. Your team continues to submit workloads as On-Demand Priority. The platform automatically applies prepaid benefits to eligible workloads — no manual selection required. 

  • Savings are applied retroactively via hourly billing reconciliation
  • No additional steps at job setup – users work exactly as they do today
  • Savings appear in Billing Summary as an “Applied Commitment” negation
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Catseye Coretype with Coretype Plan

Burst Policies: Control Cost vs. Throughput

Admins can configure a burst policy per commitment to determine what happens when committed capacity is reached. Three modes available:

  • Immediate: workloads launch instantly at On-Demand Priority rates
  • Balanced: workloads wait a configurable period (30 min – 6 hours) for commitment capacity, then launch at On-Demand Priority rates
  • Savings Required: workloads wait up to 24 hours for commitment capacity; cancelled automatically if unavailable
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Configuring Commitment Plan Settings

⚠️ Queue policy applies to job launches only. HPS always launches immediately. Workstation resumes are unaffected.

Utilization Dashboard

A dedicated dashboard showing how your commitment is being consumed over time. Key capabilities include:

  • Utilization rate (%), actual consumption vs. commitment ceiling
  • Hourly and daily views of cores in use over time
  • Filter by month and by specific commitment
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Viewing Commitment Plan Utilization

Workspace Scope

Commitments can be applied to all workspaces in your organization or restricted to a specific set of workspaces — giving admins granular control over which teams benefit from prepaid capacity.

Why This Matters

  • Reduce compute costs 10–35%, depending on your commitment level — without changing how your team submits jobs.
  • Direct control over cost vs. speed with the queue policy — a capability not available in CSP-native tools or traditional schedulers.
  • Visibility into commitment ROI with the utilization dashboard — see exactly how prepaid capacity is being consumed.
  • No operational overhead for end users — savings are applied automatically. Admins configure once; users benefit immediately.

Get Started

Interested in a Commitment Plan? Contact your Rescale Account Executive to discuss commitment sizing and configuration.

No action required from users. If your organization has an active Commitment Plan, look for the “Commitment Plan” badge during job setup — it indicates that committed capacity is available for your workload.

For additional information, see the Commitment Plans documentation.

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