Monthly virtual station license
€145
€435
€870
Monthly virtual station price on a 1-year license ¹
€124
€372
€744
Monthly virtual station price on a 3-year license ²
€104
€312
€624
Monthly virtual station price on a 5-year license ³
€88
€264
€528
One-time mandatory set-up fee ⁴
on quote
on quote
on quote
Near real-time river discharge
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access to the API ⁵
Yes
Yes
Yes
Water level forecasts ⁶
No
Yes
Yes
10-day river discharge forecasts
No
Yes
Yes
Virtual stations may be relocated anytime
No
Yes
Yes
2-month historical discharge
No
Yes
Yes
Early warning alerts by email
No
Yes
Yes
HydroSHEDS river network
Yes
Yes
client-furbished river network
Early warning alerts by SMS &/or voice message
No
No
For up to 5 recipients
10 additional recipients for SMS &/or voice message
No
No
100€ per virtual station / month
Guaranteed service account uptime
95%
97%
99%
Download up to 30 years of historical discharge data, and get the flow duration curve
No
€4000 per unit
€4000 per unit
Hydropower production forecast
No
€100 per virtual station / month
€100 per virtual station / month
Automated report generation
No
€100 per virtual station / month
€100 per virtual station / month
Minimum virtual station subscription required for customizable Terms & Conditions ⁷
50
10
6
All prices mentioned above exclude applicable Value Added Tax (VAT).
¹ 1-year license pricing equivalent to 2 months of service offered compared to the Monthly Plan
² 3-year license pricing equivalent to 11 months offered vs Monthly plan
³ 5-year license pricing equivalent to 24 months offered vs Monthly plan
¹²³ For term licenses (1-year, 3-year and 5-year), an evaluation period is applied, equal to one-sixth of the committed duration (2 months for a 1-year license, 6 months for a 3-year license, 10 months for a 5-year license). During the evaluation period, clients may cancel the subscription at any time. Once the evaluation period has ended, the licensing commitment becomes firm for the remaining duration of the contract.
For a detailed explanation of the pricing structure — including the evaluation phase and cancellation conditions — please refer to this article.
⁴ For all subscriptions, a one-time set-up fee is applied at the start of the contract. This fee is quoted based on the project’s scope, availability of model training data, performance requirements as expressed by the client or required by the client’s use case, and number of sub-basins to be trained.
⁵ The BWI Application Programming Interface (API) documentation is available here.
⁶ Water level forecasts are available under one condition: there is an existing ground station on your chosen location (yours or open data), and the virtual station complements ground station data with water level forecasting capabilities.
⁷ BWI Terms & Conditions (T&Cs) are available here.
Each account is linked to its unique subscription plan, therefore, customers must select a plan that suits their requirements the most. Multiple subscription plans cannot be combined within one account. Consequently, one user cannot access several plans simultaneously. If your organization needs to subscribe to different plans, these plans will be available under separate contracts and accessible via separate accounts.
2 payment schemes are available: monthly direct debit (immediate payment and invoicing upon subscribing to the service), or yearly bank transfer (annual invoice issued by BWI on the 1st day of service to be paid by the client within 30 days as per BWI T&Cs).
Additional services may be available upon request and typically consist of bespoke training sessions. For system integration services or the deployment of physical sensors, BWI will typically introduce you to partners.
Basin digitization subscription plans are subject to change without notice. For existing clients, the price is not subject to change.
BWI specializes in providing near real-time estimates and forecasts of inland surface water bodies around the globe. It combines in-situ data, spaceborne observations, and machine learning to feed and empower hydrological and hydrodynamical models. Through an online, subscription-based service, BWI aims to make scalable – across space and time – hydrological software to address climate change-induced water stress.
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