Storage attached to the node
Local NVMe scratch on the machine your job runs on, sized to the configuration. Persistent volumes are billed separately per TB-month.
Pricing
You are billed for the hours a GPU is allocated to you, in pounds, excluding VAT. No credits to pre-purchase, no token accounting, no egress charge for moving your own data out.
On-demand rates
| Configuration | Memory | Typical workload | Per GPU-hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | 80 GB HBM3 | Large-model training, fine-tuning | £— on request |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe | 80 GB HBM3 | Mixed training and inference | £— on request |
| NVIDIA L40S | 48 GB GDDR6 | Inference, fine-tuning, rendering | £— on request |
| NVIDIA A100 | 80 GB HBM2e | Training, batch inference | £— on request |
Meridian is pre-launch and rates are being finalised ahead of general availability. Early-access customers are quoted directly and the quote is held for the length of the initial term. Reserved capacity over one, three or twelve months is priced below on-demand — ask for a schedule.
What's included
Local NVMe scratch on the machine your job runs on, sized to the configuration. Persistent volumes are billed separately per TB-month.
Inbound and outbound transfer of your own data is not metered. Interconnect between GPUs in a multi-GPU allocation is included.
Support during UK business hours on every account, with a named contact and an escalation path on reserved terms.
Questions
Monthly in arrears by invoice, in pounds sterling, excluding VAT. Billing is per GPU-hour allocated — a partial hour is rounded to the minute. UK VAT is added at the prevailing rate where applicable.
On nodes located in the United Kingdom. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and tenants are isolated at the hypervisor level. We do not replicate customer data outside the UK.
On-demand has no minimum — allocate a GPU, use it, release it. Reserved terms start at one month and are priced lower in exchange for the commitment.
No. Power is our operating cost, priced into the hourly rate. Meridian is not an energy supplier or generator and does not sell, trade or resell electricity to customers or to host sites.
Early access is open. Tell us the workload and we'll give you a straight answer about whether current capacity fits it — and if it doesn't yet, when it will.
Send us the shape of the workload — model size, hours per month, latency requirement — and we'll come back with real numbers.