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Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]

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Re: Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]

#7
For folks who've never seen one of these.

132-33 - Price for a Palantir server, priced per core. $141k per core. Includes 1 year of "maintenance" (support and software upgrades).

132-34 - This is the maintenance for second year on. $28k per core.

How many users can a core support? I dunno. But let's say you can serve 50 people off of a 4-core system (you can redo the math for the number of users).

You initial purchase is $564k. Or about $11k per user.

Each year after that, if you want software updates, it'll cost you $113k or or about $2.2k per year per user.

So let's say you use the system for 3 years. That's over $15k of software per user over that time.

Plus there's training ~$2k per user. Or another $100k in training costs.

And then who knows how many hours of engineering and "ninja" services. But a CONUS (within the U.S.) FSR is billed at about $300k per year for a full-time person on staff. Let's say you need two of them to support those 50 users.

Added up for 3 years of Palantir: $1.5million

I'll let you decide if that's good value, but that works out to around $30k per user partial TCO (not including power, security, networking, local IT staff support, etc.).

Re: Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]

#8
post #6

You can't do diddly with an off the shelf install. They get you on the Implementation Ninjas and Support.

I think they get you on the off the shelf price too..

$150k/core...say you run it on a cluster of relatively puny machines ...($150k * 4 cores) on a 4 node cluster is already above $2m.

Re: Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]

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post #2

pretty affordable compared to most enterprise software packages

"per core"

with 90 days warranty :) Can it rot?

Anyway, from their Gotham page https://www.palantir.com/palantir-gotham/

"Working closely with the customer, our engineers integrate and map all of the relevant source data—regardless of type or volume—into a single, coherent model.

...

Once the model has been created, data flows continuously from its sources into the Palantir Gotham platform.

...

They can search across all of their data sources at once, visualize relationships, explore divergent hypotheses, discover unknown connections, "

Pretty much my 2009 pitch, and in the hindsight i see that my main weakness was that i couldn't even imagine $150K/core. Man, it is imagination what separates losers from winners! :)

Re: Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]

#10
All right in line with just about any sort of "Enterprise" software. Training and implementation services are downright cheap. Maintenance is the standard 20%.

The last big vendor PO I had to look at put every professional services line item at $300-360/hr with $320 being about average.

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