ClearBlade Edge Platform
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What is ClearBlade Edge Platform
ClearBlade Edge Platform is an IoT edge software platform for deploying, running, and managing data ingestion, processing, and application logic close to devices and operational systems. It targets teams building industrial and enterprise IoT solutions that need local processing, intermittent-connectivity operation, and integration with cloud or on-prem systems. The platform combines edge runtime, device connectivity, data management, and application development components to support distributed deployments across gateways and edge servers.
Edge-first data processing
The platform is designed to run ingestion and analytics workflows at the edge, reducing dependence on continuous cloud connectivity. This supports use cases where latency, bandwidth, or site autonomy requirements make centralized processing impractical. It also helps organizations keep certain operational data local for architectural or policy reasons.
Integrated IoT application tooling
ClearBlade provides a unified environment that covers device connectivity, data handling, and application logic rather than requiring separate products for each layer. This can simplify solution architecture for teams building end-to-end IoT applications. It is particularly relevant for projects that need both edge execution and centralized management capabilities.
Supports distributed deployments
The platform is built for managing deployments across multiple sites and edge nodes, which is common in industrial and field operations. It supports patterns such as store-and-forward and local decisioning when connectivity is unreliable. This aligns with operational technology environments where centralized observability and control must coexist with local autonomy.
Implementation complexity at scale
Edge platforms typically require careful planning for provisioning, lifecycle management, and operational monitoring across many nodes. Organizations may need additional engineering effort to standardize deployment pipelines, upgrades, and rollback procedures. This can increase time-to-production compared with more narrowly scoped IoT components.
Security depends on configuration
While the product is positioned for IoT and edge deployments, achieving strong security outcomes depends on correct configuration of identity, access controls, certificates/keys, and update processes. Edge environments also expand the attack surface due to physical access risks and heterogeneous device fleets. Many buyers still need complementary controls (e.g., SIEM/SOAR processes, vulnerability management) outside the platform.
Ecosystem and skills requirements
Teams may need platform-specific skills to build and operate solutions, especially when integrating with existing OT systems and protocols. Integration depth with third-party analytics, observability, and enterprise platforms varies by use case and may require custom work. This can be a constraint for organizations seeking primarily plug-and-play analytics or monitoring.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (data-volume billing) Free tier/trial: Free data volume up to 250 MB per calendar month (see Pricing examples).
Pricing tiers (price per MB, USD):
- Up to 250 MB — $0.00 per month.
- 250 MB to 250 GB — $0.0045 per MB.
- 250 GB to 5 TB — $0.0020 per MB.
- 5 TB and above — $0.00045 per MB.
Minimum billing granularity / minimum charge: 1024 bytes per message (any message smaller than 1024 bytes is billed as 1024 bytes).
Billable message types (examples): MQTT (CONNECT, PUBLISH, PUBACK (cloud-bound), SUBSCRIBE, PINGREQ); HTTP requests/responses (total bytes in body).
Example costs (from ClearBlade docs):
- 10,000 devices sending only MQTT PINGREQs (keep-alive 15 minutes) → ~27.47 GB/month → (27.47 GB - 250 MB) * $0.0045 = $125.46/month (example shown in docs).
- 10,000 devices sending one 1024-byte HTTP request every 30 minutes → ~27.46 GB/month → (27.46 GB - 250 MB) * $0.0045 = $125.41/month.
- 50,000 devices, 1 HTTP request every 30 minutes, 5-byte messages (minimum billed as 1024 bytes) → ~137.32 GB/month → (137.32 GB - 250 MB) * $0.0045 = $631.65/month.
- Large-message example (50,000 devices, 1 request/minute, 8192 bytes) → ~18.1 TB/month → tiered calculation in docs yields $17,305.99/month.
Discounts / other pricing notes:
- Pricing tiers effectively provide lower per-MB pricing at higher volumes. ClearBlade documentation references integration with Cloud Pub/Sub (Google Cloud) which would be billed separately.
- For enterprise/custom deployments and for non-IoT-Core offerings (Edge installations, on-prem, or multi-tenant/dedicated deployments), ClearBlade’s public site points to calculators and contacting sales — no public fixed per-device or per-seat pricing found for the Edge Platform on the official site.
Notes / scope:
- Above pricing is taken from ClearBlade’s official documentation for ClearBlade IoT Core (ClearBlade docs / pricing page). The ClearBlade Edge product pages do not publish a separate, explicit per-device or per-edge subscription price publicly; ClearBlade provides an IoT Enterprise pricing calculator and sales contacts for enterprise/custom pricing.
Seller details
ClearBlade, Inc.
Austin, Texas, USA
2014
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