Cloud Utility Pricing
A smarter, more efficient way to manage discovery hosting. Pay by the minute, not by the month.
Reinventing the Economics of Discovery Hosting
Traditional vendors charge like landlords—monthly rent whether you use the space or not. But what if hosting worked more like a utility?
Alchemy’s Cloud Utility Pricing transforms discovery economics by letting you pay only for what you actually use. When your site is active, you pay the full rate. When it’s not, you pay about 30% of that rate while keeping your data secure and accessible. With a single click, you can power your site down and reduce costs dramatically—all without sacrificing instant access when you need it again.
How Cloud Utility Pricing Works
Turn sites on and off
It takes just seconds to power off your site when you’re finished with work, and just minutes to power it back up when you need it.
Schedule operating hours
Schedule site hours to match your team’s hours, saving on nights, weekends, holidays and longer inactive periods.
Use the Site Energy Saver
Use Alchemy’s Site Energy Saver to automatically turn off sites after a set period of inactivity (e.g., 30 or 60 minutes)
Power Down to Save. Power Up in Minutes.
Real Results: $395,000 in Hosting Savings
A fintech client hosting a 5 TB site under traditional pricing paid $35,000 per month—even when their case was dormant. When the matter paused for a year, those unused months added up to $420,000 in waste.
After moving to Cloud Utility Pricing, they powered the site down and paid only the offline rate. Total cost during the dormant period: about $60,000.
Total savings: nearly $400,000.
When the investigation resumed, the site powered up in minutes—no lost data, no disruption.
Your Site Isn't Running 24/7. Your Costs Shouldn't Either.
Most discovery sites are active for a fraction of available hours. An average month has 730 hours. Even a team working 10-hour days, five days a week, uses only 200 of them — just 27% of the month. Actual site usage is often far less.
Cloud Utility Pricing lets you align your costs with that reality:
- Power Up / Power Down — run your site during work hours, shut it off when done
- Schedule Operations — automate site hours to match your team’s schedule
- Weekend & Holiday Downtime — plan offline periods for additional savings
- Dormant Phases — keep inactive matters offline until needed, reactivate in minutes
- Site Energy Saver — automatically shut down idle sites after 30 or 60 minutes
For teams managing multiple matters, these savings compound quickly.
All Thanks to Single-Tenant Architecture
Unlike multi-tenant systems that must run 24/7 for all clients, Alchemy’s single-tenant design gives each organization its own private, dedicated environment. That means:
Stronger security and data isolation
Full control over uptime and costs
Freedom to power down whenever you choose
Other vendors can’t do this because shared infrastructure can’t be shut off—but we can. And we pass the savings directly to you.
"When you have 30, even 50 investigations all at different stages of life, those are massive costs. Legal and compliance departments are viewed as cost centers, and we need to be doing what we can to lower costs. Cloud Utility Pricing makes sense."
Dara Tarkowski
Founder & Managing Partner, Actuate Law
Still Skeptical?
Read Joe Patrice’s article in Above The Law to learn why “Lawyers Waste A Ton of Money On Data Storage And Discovery.” and how Cloud Utility Pricing is changing the game.
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