Compute Usage

Conspecta tracks server-side work like dimensionality reduction, clustering, and image-analysis model training as compute usage. Each plan includes a monthly usage allowance, and data exports are always free.

How Compute Usage Works

Compute usage draws from two buckets:

• Included usage comes with your plan and resets on a fixed date each billing period
• Purchased usage is a top-up your team has bought separately. It never expires and is only drawn on once your included usage is used up

Usage is pooled at the team level. Every project in a team draws from the same monthly allowance, and every team member contributes to it.

What Uses Compute

• Flow cytometry: dimensionality reduction (tSNE, UMAP, PCA) and clustering (K-means, FlowSOM, and similar)
• Image analysis: training custom AI detection models

Usage scales with the type of job and the size of the dataset — a small clustering run on a few thousand events uses little, while training a model on a large labeled set uses much more. The estimated usage is shown before you start the job.

Exports Are Always Free

Every export (project data, notebook PDFs, raw images, FCS files, Excel tables) is free. You should never feel penalized for getting your data out of Conspecta. Exports do appear in the Compute Jobs list so you can track their progress, but they don't count toward your usage.

Checking Your Usage

1. Click your profile in the top corner, or open Settings (Cmd/Ctrl + ,)
2. Go to the Usage tab
3. If you belong to more than one team, pick the team you want to inspect

You'll see your Compute usage, which shows:

• A Subscription row with the reset date, used/total, a progress bar, and how much remains
• A Purchased row, if your team has any purchased usage still available
• A colored warning if you're approaching or past the subscription limit

Warning Colors

The progress bar shifts color as your monthly usage fills up:

• Green below 75%
• Yellow between 75% and 90%
• Red at 90% and above

Once you cross 80%, a warning chip appears reading "Approaching subscription limit."

What Happens When You Run Out

When your included usage hits 100%, new compute jobs are blocked. The Usage tab shows:

Subscription usage has been reached for this period.

If your team also has purchased usage, it's drawn on next, automatically and silently, with no second confirmation. Only when both buckets are empty do compute jobs stop accepting new work.

Exports, project navigation, editing, and every non-compute feature continue to work normally.

Failed and Cancelled Jobs Are Refunded

If a compute job fails due to a server error or infrastructure issue, or you cancel it before it finishes, that usage is automatically returned to your team's available usage.

• The refund appears instantly in your remaining usage
• The job still shows in your Compute Jobs list with a Failed or Cancelled status and the Usage column reads Refunded
• You don't need to contact support or request a manual adjustment

Refunds apply to jobs that did not run to completion. Jobs that complete successfully still count even if the result isn't what you expected — for example, a model that trained but has low accuracy, or a clustering run whose output doesn't match your hypothesis. Those outcomes reflect the input data and parameters, not a platform failure.

Compute Jobs

Under the usage bar, expand Compute Jobs to see a list of every job your team has run recently: dimensionality reductions, model trainings, exports, and more. Each row shows the user, project, job type, start time, duration, status, and usage.

• Completed jobs show the actual usage
• Failed and Cancelled jobs show Refunded because the usage was returned to your available usage
• Exports always show 0 because they're free

Click Export CSV to download the full job history for your team. It's useful for tracking usage over time or attributing it to a particular member.

Team Limits

The monthly usage for each team is set by your plan. If your team is running low on compute before the period resets:

• Check the Compute Jobs list to identify which jobs are using the most
• Talk to your team owner about upgrading the plan or purchasing additional usage
• For usage limits by plan, see Pricing

Next Steps

• Plans and billing for how subscriptions, plans, and checkout work
• Flow cytometry compute for what consumes compute in flow analysis
• Image analysis compute for what consumes compute in image analysis
• Share and export to confirm exports stay free