OpenMetal Egress Pricing vs AWS Per-GB

OpenMetal bills public egress on 95th-percentile measurement rather than per-GB transfer, creating a structural cost advantage that grows with traffic volume.

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On AWS, egress charges start at $0.09 per GB for the first 10 TB and scale with tiered pricing beyond that. A server transferring 50 TB per month would incur roughly $4,500 in AWS egress charges alone. On OpenMetal, the same traffic pattern is billed based on the 95th-percentile sustained rate, not the total volume transferred. A server that bursts to high bandwidth during peak windows but averages a lower rate pays for the sustained level, not every byte moved.

Each OpenMetal bare metal server and Hosted Private Cloud deployment includes a base egress allocation at no additional cost. Additional public bandwidth is available at $375 per month per 1 Gbps committed in advance, or billed at the 95th percentile for overages in arrears. Private VLAN traffic between servers in the same deployment is always free, regardless of volume.

This pricing model benefits CDN origins, API-heavy SaaS platforms, data distribution services, and streaming workloads where egress volume is high but sustained rates are predictable. Organizations spending above $20,000 per month on public cloud infrastructure typically see close to 50% cost reduction when moving sustained workloads to OpenMetal’s fixed pricing model.