Licensing Models for NC2 on AWS deployments are below with all prices listed in USD. NC2 on Azure is currently in preview. There is no cost to the customer for the Nutanix software used on Azure during the preview phase. Customer is responsible for cost incurred on any Azure services.
Pay-as-you-Go (PayG)
On-demand consumption based pricing with no commitment. Monthly billing based on the vCPU and storage capacity consumed.
- No upfront commitment
- Pay for what you use, metered hourly
- Billed monthly based on consumption
- Great for short duration or unplanned usage
Cloud Commit (CC)
Commit to paying a minimum amount upfront and get discounted consumption for one year, including any consumption above the upfront commitment amount. Two discount levels available based on the upfront commitment amount: $35,000 to $100,000 (CC-35) and $100,000+ (CC-100).
- Upfront annual payment commitment with discounted billing
- Pay for what you use, metered hourly
- Overages billed monthly at a discounted rate
- Great for demand with known variability
Bring your own License (BYOL)
License portability benefits by transferring capacity from your on-premises term based capacity based licenses (CBL) to AWS
- Ideal for flexible capacity across on-premises and AWS environments
- Term based licensing (1 to 5 yrs) with capacity based pricing
Select your bare metal instance:
i3.metal comes with 36 cores, 512GiB memory, 13.82TiB NVMe SSD storage per bare metal instance. Pricing is in USD.
Pricing Model | AOS Pro/node | AOS Ultimate/node | Effective Discount (approx) | |
Per Hour | PayG | $1.75 | $2.10 | |
CC-35 | $1.31 | $1.58 | 25% off PayG | |
CC-100 | $1.05 | $1.26 | 40% off PayG | |
Yearly | PayG | $15,330.00 | $18,396.00 | |
CC-35 | $11,497.50 | $13,797.00 | 25% off PayG | |
CC-100 | $9,198.00 | $11,037.60 | 40% off PayG |
i3en.metal comes with 48 cores, 768GiB memory, 54.57TiB NVMe SSD storage per bare metal instance. Pricing is in USD.
Pricing Model | AOS Pro/node | AOS Ultimate/node | Effective Discount (approx) | |
Per Hour | PayG | $2.80 | $3.36 | |
CC-35 | $2.10 | $2.52 | 25% off PayG | |
CC-100 | $1.68 | $2.02 | 40% off PayG | |
Yearly | PayG | $24,528.00 | $29,433.60 | |
CC-35 | $18,396.00 | $22,075.20 | 25% off PayG | |
CC-100 | $14,716.80 | $17,660.16 | 40% off PayG |
m5d.metal comes with 48 cores, 384GiB memory, 3.27TiB NVMe SSD storage per bare metal instance. Pricing is in USD.
Pricing Model | AOS Pro/node | AOS Ultimate/node | Effective Discount (approx) | |
Per Hour | PayG | $2.14 | $2.56 | |
CC-35 | $1.60 | $1.92 | 25% off PayG | |
CC-100 | $1.28 | $1.54 | 40% off PayG | |
Yearly | PayG | $18,712.33 | $22,454.80 | |
CC-35 | $14,034.25 | $16,841.10 | 25% off PayG | |
CC-100 | $11,227.40 | $13,472.88 | 40% off PayG |
z1d.metal comes with 24 cores, 384GiB memory, 1.64TiB NVMe SSD storage per bare metal instance. Pricing is in USD.
Pricing Model | AOS Pro/node | AOS Ultimate/node | Effective Discount (approx) | |
Per Hour | PayG | $1.07 | $1.28 | |
CC-35 | $0.80 | $0.96 | 25% off PayG | |
CC-100 | $0.64 | $0.77 | 40% off PayG | |
Yearly | PayG | $9,361.60 | $11,233.92 | |
CC-35 | $7,021.20 | $8,425.44 | 25% off PayG | |
CC-100 | $5,616.96 | $6,740.35 | 40% off PayG |

The pricing above is for the Nutanix software only. The cost for AWS infrastructure is the responsibility of the user.