Turn it on when you need it.
Give the matter team direct control over when the environment is active.
Cloud Utility Pricing
Pay for the Infrastructure You Actually Use.
Why pay 24/7 for discovery infrastructure when a matter is active only a fraction of the time?
The pricing model
Pay for the work that is actually happening.
Discovery infrastructure is rarely active around the clock. Merlin’s Cloud Utility model follows the real rhythm of the matter, rather than treating every environment as permanently on.
MATTER ENVIRONMENTMONTHLY ACTIVITY
Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4
SITE ONFull environment available for the team.
SITE OFFCompute turns down while matter data stays protected.
Actual-use economics
Most matters do not need full-time infrastructure.
Merlin measures actual site activity so costs better reflect when the environment is doing work.
8% site use55.5% savings
15% site use49.4% savings
30% site use36.3% savings
Three ways to control the environment
Choose the level of control that fits the team.
Follow the team’s normal hours.
Set an operating pattern and let the environment follow the rhythm of the workday.
Power down when the work pauses.
Let Merlin detect idle periods and turn down computing resources automatically.
THE UPSIDE STAYS WITH THE MATTER
If the estimate is wrong, you save less. You do not pay more.
Monthly Cloud Utility hosting is capped at the comparable always-on rate, so the savings benefit is real without introducing an open-ended downside.
Bring a turned-down site back when the matter needs it—typically within minutes.
Add the people the work requires without turning every additional collaborator into a hosting penalty.
Choose Cloud Monthly when a single predictable figure is the better fit.
Bring Us a Matter.
We can help model the right infrastructure approach for your work.