Know what every workload really costs
Fully-burdened running cost per VM — hardware, power, licensing, support and ops — allocated by weighted resource share, not averaged across the estate.
On-prem cost modelling · vendor-neutral cloud comparison
Not just a rack diagram.
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Not just a rack diagram.
A cost model finance can stand behind.
MeraLens closes the costly visibility gap between your physical data centre and the true cost of running it. Build your estate exactly as it stands — rack by rack, host by host — and transform it into a living digital blueprint that connects infrastructure reality to fully burdened cost.
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Estate · per month£32,000 /mo
Compute£11,700
Storage£4,200
Power & cooling£3,400
Licensing£8,500
Support£4,200
Reconciled to the penny
Overview
Your cloud bill is itemised to the cent.
Your cloud bill is itemised to the cent.
Your on-prem estate is a black box.
Finance can't charge it back, infra can't defend it, and nobody can say whether the cloud would actually be cheaper.
Know what you run. Know what it costs.Costs are guessed
Hardware, power, licensing and support live scattered across spreadsheets and invoices — never per workload.
Cloud comparisons are guesswork
"Cloud is cheaper" — or pricier — with no like-for-like number to back the decision either way.
Nothing to charge back
Without a per-VM cost there's nothing to show the teams and business units actually consuming the estate.
Build it once, keep it true
Your data centre as a living model
Your on-prem estate should never be a black box.
Map every hall, cabinet, rack and device exactly as it stands — then place devices into racks, save layouts, duplicate halls and plan refreshes.
As devices are mounted, rack costs build from the hardware inside them — the physical layout and the financial footprint in a single view.
Build it once, maintain it, and never lose sight of the infrastructure you own.
DC-LON1 · Hall A · 4 racksadd · save
Zoom in
Then zoom into any rack
Open a cabinet and you're looking at the real thing — every device in its U slot, its ports and disks, and the live monthly cost of whatever you select.
- Every device in its real U slot — ports and disks
- Select anything for its live monthly cost
- Add, move or swap kit — the total updates instantly
DC-LON1 · Hall A · Rack 03£32,000 /mo
Itemised & reconciled
Watch the number build itself
No black-box totals. Every monthly cost flows up into the estate total and reconciles by construction — switch currency and the maths still adds up.
Estate cost · per month
On-prem vs cloud
Sometimes on-prem wins.
Sometimes on-prem wins.
Sometimes the cloud does.
No referral fees, no preferred vendor — only your numbers. MeraLens models both options on identical assumptions and shows which is genuinely cheaper for your estate.
Steady, fully-amortised estate
Stable, predictable load doesn't need cloud elasticity you'd pay a premium for. Staying on-prem saves roughly £580k over three years.
Spiky estate, refresh due
With a refresh looming and capacity sitting idle most of the month, the cloud lands about £330k cheaper over three years. The model says move.
Illustrative scenarios — the real number comes from your own estate.
Why MeraLens
Built to be trusted,
Built to be trusted,
not to upsell you.
No metrics to wave around yet — we're new. So here's what we'll stake the product on instead.
Vendor-neutral
Zero referral fees from any cloud. The number has no agenda but yours.
Your assumptions
Every cost variable is visible and yours to set — not our defaults baked in.
Reconciled to the penny
Every figure traces from line item to category to total. It adds up by construction.
Your data stays yours
Isolated per customer, never sold, never used to train models. Full stop.
What you get
The detail where
The detail where
the money actually hides
Itemised, reconciled and yours — the numbers finance and infra both trust.
Your whole estate, one model
One living view of your on-prem world — every device mapped, every cost connected, and every change reflected as the estate evolves.
Licences costed properly
Per core, socket, VM, host or user — first-class licence objects, so you always know what you're paying to run.
Settle stay-or-move
Price each VM against an equivalent Azure, AWS or GCP instance — a defensible number, not a hunch.
Price a refresh before the PO
Duplicate a cluster, drop in replacement nodes at today's prices, and see what the refresh lands at.
Charge it back, cleanly
Roll costs up by division, team or cost centre for internal chargeback that still reconciles down to the VM — so every team sees what it actually consumes.
How it works
From rack to real number
01
Model your estate
Lay out your estate exactly as it stands — data centre, hall, rack, node and VM — by hand with saveable layouts and bulk editing, or imported straight from CSV.
- Visual rack layouts you can save and duplicate
- Add single or multiple devices manually, Bulk-edit devices, or import a CSV
02
Set every assumption
Power, amortisation, licensing, support and operations — every cost variable is visible and yours to set. Change one and the whole model recalculates instantly.
- No vendor defaults baked in — your numbers, your rules
- Live recompute the moment you touch an input
03
See it to the VM
Every figure is itemised and reconciled to the penny, allocated down to each workload — and each result carries a confidence rating so you know exactly what to trust.
- Fully-burdened cost per VM, not estate averages
- A confidence rating on every number
04
Decide, and keep deciding
Benchmark against the cloud, model a hardware refresh before you buy, then export the whole picture as a report — and come back whenever the estate changes.
- Stay-or-move cloud comparison on identical assumptions
- A report your finance team can use
Step 1 of 4
Pricing
Try it out.
Try it out.
Subscribe when you're ready.
We're still finalising pricing ahead of launch. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, upgradeable at any time — join the waitlist and you'll be first to hear what it costs.
14-day free trial — no card required
Model a single rack end to end: 1 data centre, 1 rack, 1 cluster, 5 nodes and 25 VMs, with the full cost engine, VM-level attribution, multi-cloud comparison and report export.
Basic
For a single site getting a defensible number for the first time.
- One data centre, multiple racks
- Up to 100 VMs
- Full cost engine & VM-level attribution
- Multi-cloud comparison
- Reporting
- 3 seats · email support
Team
For teams modelling multiple sites and sharing results across the org.
- Everything in Basic
- Multiple data centres & estates
- Up to 500 VMs
- Cost centres & bulk editing
- Unlimited seats · priority support
Coming soonEnterprise
For larger estates with specific isolation, support or procurement needs.
- Everything in Team
- Dedicated tenancy options
- Onboarding & SLA
- Procurement support
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01/What exactly is MeraLens?
MeraLens is a way to build your on-prem estate virtually — every hall, rack,
host and VM, laid out as it really stands — and keep it as a living model that updates as your estate changes, with the real cost of every part attached and visible. From that picture it builds a clear, itemised cost model you can trust, then benchmarks it against the cloud: the kind of on-prem cost story finance can actually defend — transparent, traceable, and yours.
02/How is the cost actually calculated?
Every cost factor — hardware, power, licensing, support, operations — is a component you set. The engine groups, sums and allocates them to each VM by weighted resource share, and the whole thing reconciles to the penny by construction. No black-box totals.
03/Is it really vendor-neutral?
Yes. There are no referral fees from any cloud — the only agenda is your numbers. For each VM you model, we match its spec to the closest equivalent instance and pull the cloud provider's current public pricing, then set that price side by side with what the same VM actually costs you on-prem. Both sides are modelled on identical assumptions, with every figure traceable to its inputs.
04/What does the free trial include?
14 days, no card required. Model one rack end to end — 1 data centre, 1 rack, 1 cluster, 5 nodes and 25 VMs — with the full cost engine, VM-level attribution, multi-cloud comparison and report export. After 14 days, continue on a paid plan or walk away.
05/Is my data isolated and private?
Each customer's estate is isolated, never sold, and never used to train models. Your data stays yours — full stop.
06/How do I add my data?
Two ways. By hand — add data centres, racks, nodes and VMs directly, set each device's U position and it drops into the rack, and bulk-edit in place. Or a guided CSV import — download a structured template for each level (sites, racks, nodes, VMs), drop in your export, map your columns to the fields, and review a validated preview before anything is created, so problem rows are flagged rather than silently imported. However you start, everything stays editable afterwards — and we aim to add more ways to bring your data in over time.
07/Is this everything MeraLens will do?
Not even close — but we're careful about what we promise. It's early, and we're building it actively with plans well beyond launch. We'd rather ship and show you than commit to features or dates we can't yet stand behind.
08/When does it launch?
The date is still to be confirmed. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out directly before it goes public or with any updates on a set date of launch — no newsletters in between.
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