How does Event Notifications calculate pricing?
| Event Type | Event Description | Price | |
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| Incoming events | Ingested events (all sources) | An ingested event is one that is received and passed through a filter (including pass-all filters). If a source is connected to Event Notifications but no filters are defined for it (i.e. the source is not connected to any topics), the incoming events are dropped and you are not charged. See the Event Notifications documentation for a complete list of event sources. | $1.08 USD per million |
| Outbound HTTP | Outbound HTTP notifications | IBM supports outbound HTTP messages to IBM Cloud services like Object Storage and Code Engine, to third party destinations like Slack, ServiceNow, MSTeams and to generic webhook endpoints. Commonly used to build automation and event-driven applications. See the Event Notifications documentation for a complete list of destinations. | $1.08 USD per million |
| Outbound email from cloud.ibm.com | Emails from IBM Cloud services may be sent using IBM-owned domains and contain content generated by the IBM Cloud services. Commonly used for cloud alerts. | $43.10 USD per million | |
| Outbound email from your own domain | After setting custom domain email, IBM will provide provide guidelines to add entries in the DNS records. See the Event Notifications documentation for details | $150 USD per million messages $0.12 USD per gigabyte |
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| SMTP Interface | Outbound email from using smtp interface | support for SMTP, the most common email protocol on the internet, See the Event Notifications SMTP Interface documentation here | $150 USD per million messages $0.12 USD per gigabyte |
| SMS | Outbound SMS text messages | IBM supports text messaging to 90+ countries. Notifications from IBM Cloud services may be sent using IBM-owned phone numbers. | $16.15 USD per thousand SMS Units. See price list by country |
| Push Notifications | Outbound push notifications | Available for Android, iOS, Huawei devices, and Chrome, Firefox, Safari browsers. | 0 - 10 Million: Free 10 Million - 110 Million: $1 USD per million More than 110 Million: $0.5 USD per million |