# Mybinder.org cost updates

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-org-cost-updates/2426>\
**Category:** mybinder.org ops\
**Created:** [October 16, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-org-cost-updates/2426 "2019-10-16T21:18:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![choldgraf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/choldgraf/32/1264_2.png) [@choldgraf](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/choldgraf)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-org-cost-updates/2426/1 "2019-10-16T21:18:05Z")

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Hey all - in our ongoing quest to find Google Cloud credits, I recently updated and re-ran some numbers for our billing on [mybinder.org](http://mybinder.org). As many folks know, we run Binder as a radically open service, which means being transparent about our costs and usage over time.

You can find an updated and interactive report here:

> **[Jupyter Notebook Viewer](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/jupyterhub/binder-billing/blob/master/analyze_data.ipynb?flush_cache=true)**
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> Check out this Jupyter notebook!

It uses information from our Binder data repository, which has daily billing data

> **[jupyterhub/binder-data](https://github.com/jupyterhub/binder-data)**
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> A place to store data for Binder. Contribute to jupyterhub/binder-data development by creating an account on GitHub.

As well as the Binder launch archive:

[archive.analytics.mybinder.org](http://archive.analytics.mybinder.org)

Here are some interesting plots!

Our daily cost has gone up in the last few months:

(daily cost)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/0/09d0a26a41933ae4b34ddf296bb82cf58d2ac0c5.png)

and this has also correlated with a recently large growth in the number of launches:

(number of sessions averaged over 6 day window)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/a/a65c693065e2771a9c0cd8fba674b6a77de0ecd6.png)

Which results in a pretty small cost per session (about $.014 per session)

(cost per session over time)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/2/2d79b7b112ec991b7f37dfeed35e6df4e305c48d.png)

This is largely because of our computing nodes:

(daily cost broken down by category)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/2/28828b510bc6d5b565f425efa79d03b8814550e4.png)

That’s it! Hope this has been interesting ✨