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Get access to the entire Blues ecosystem with the purchase of a Notecard.
How Pricing Works
Break free from expensive subscriptions, contracts, and fees, only pay for what you need. Each Notecard includes everything you need to get started including data, credits, and full access to Notehub.io.
With every Blues Notecard purchased you get:
Full access to the Notehub
to manage projects, fleets, data routing, and over-the-air firmware updates.
500 MB of free cellular data
for each Notecard to send and receive event data, available as soon as you turn it on.
5000 free Consumption Credits (CC)
added to your billing account for Notehub services such as routing data to your cloud app.
Notecard Unit Price
| Notecard Type | Per Unit Cost |
|---|---|
| Wi-Fi 2.4Ghz | $20 |
| North America LTE Cat-M | $49 |
| North America LTE Cat-1 | $59 |
| Global LTE-M | $59 |
| EMEA LTE Cat-1 | $69 |
Pay As You Go
If you consume all of the included free cellular data and credits, you can add more through the Notehub.
If you run low, 500MB of cellular data is automatically added per Notecard.
Purchase Consumption Credits (CC) as you need them, starting at about $12 for 15,000 CC
When you connect your Notecard to the Notehub, it will use cellular data to send and receive “Events”. Once you reach the 500MB data limit or 10 years, you must purchase more data to continue sending and receiving Events from your Notecard.
500 MB
$10 North America
$15 for International
Data is available to use up to 10 years.
Connectivity Assurance
When a Notecard reaches 100MB of remaining data, Connectivity Assurance will automatically add 500MB of data to the Notecard’s data plan*.
*The Notehub billing account associated with the Notecard must have a payment method and Connectivity Assurance enabled to auto-purchase data when needed. If the plan runs out of data due to invalid or missing payment method or Connectivity Assurance is disabled, the data flow will be paused.
Need more information?
Consumption Credits (CC) are used to pay for Notehub services such as event routing, API, and web requests. Every Notecard purchased and connected to the Notehub includes 5000 CCs, and more can be purchased through the Notehub. CCs are deposited into the Notehub billing account and are shared amongst all Notecards associated with the account.
Consumption Credit Pricing
| Consumption Credits | Price Per CC |
|---|---|
| 15,000 - 499,999 | $0.000750 |
| 500,000 - 9,999,999 | $0.000563 |
| 10,000,000 - 19,999,999 | $0.000375 |
| 20,000,000 - 49,999,999 | $0.000225 |
| 50,000,000 - 99,999,999 | $0.000188 |
| 100,000,000 + | $0.000150 |
Notehub services that use credits
| Service | CC Cost |
|---|---|
| Routed Event | 1 CC |
| Event API Retrieval Request | 1 CC |
| 1,000 Requests to Notehub API | 1 CC |
| Other Notehub API Requests | .001 CC |
| Real-time Device Messaging* | 1 CC |
| Notecard web request* | 1 CC |
*Requires the Notecard to be in continuous mode
Learn more about Notehub APIs
Learn more about Web Requests
Need more information?
Need help calculating your usage based cost?
Large scale deployments, extended event retention, 24/7 support, a dedicated account team, and dedicated deployment regions are available for additional fees.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is quick and easy to purchase additional Consumption Credits in Notehub. You have the option to make one-time purchases or setup Auto-recharge, which will automatically purchase credits when your balance reaches your defined minimum balance. Notehub will purchase the additional amount on your behalf and notify you when this happens.
If your Notehub billing account’s CC balance is below 5,000 at the end of the month, we will refill it up to 5,000 for free to ensure your external apps keep receiving data.
Yes. Each notecard has its own cellular data plan. Data can not be transferred from one Notecard to another.
Yes. Simply, login to Notehub and select Billing from your Profile menu. Define the threshold for your Billing Account balance to trigger an alert. If your balance is below your defined threshold, Notehub will send you an email once per day until the balance is restored to an amount above the threshold.
5,000 credits will automatically be added to your project’s billing account the first time a Notecard is provisioned and connects to Notehub.
No. Once bundled credits are added to your billing account, they can be consumed by any Notecard within your project. This allows you to pool credits within your billing account.
Notehub will provide the ability to view usage by date range, project and activity type (routed event, API call, etc).
An Event is the basic unit of data sent from a Notecard to Notehub and to a customer’s servers through a Route if a Route is defined. It’s the user-defined JSON data from a customer’s microcontroller or Notecard, further annotated with things such as time and cell tower location.
A Route is a user-defined configuration in Notehub that specifies one or more internet destinations to which a given Event may be “pushed” from the Notecard.
An Event Retrieval API is a way to programmatically fetch Event data using the Notehub API.
A “Web Request” is a request made outward to web servers on the internet, originated by Notecard as the result of a “web.get”, “web.put”, or “web.post”. These Notecard requests are routed “through” the Notehub, which acts as a secure proxy keeping devices isolated from the internet. Learn more here.
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