Pricing and eligibility

1. LUMI AI Factory services are available for start-ups and SMEs, large enterprises, public service organisations, and research performing organisations (including e.g. higher education institutions).
2. Services are offered primarily to customers from the LUMI AI Factory consortium countries: Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Poland. Services are also available to customers from other EU Member States and countries associated with the Horizon Europe programme*. Please check the service‑specific conditions in the pricing section.
3. LUMI AI Factory’s key focus areas are Health and Life Sciences, Manufacturing Industries, and Communication Technologies and Networks. We welcome collaboration with customers from all sectors, including those outside our primary domains.

At LUMI AI Factory, we offer services tailored to the needs of different customers, whether you operate in the private or public sector. Our service portfolio includes access to LUMI computing capacity, Dataset-as-a-Service (DaaS), consulting and training. Computing capacity can be accessed either through EuroHPC Joint Undertaking calls or via national access opportunities.

Use the below table to identify your organisation’s type – it can affect what services are available to you. Please note that individual persons or temporary teams are not entitled to our services.

Identify yourself	Definition
SMEs and Startups	Small to Medium Enterprise’ or ‘SME’ refers to enterprises which employ fewer than 250 persons and which have an annual turnover not exceeding 50 million euro, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding 43 million euro.
Large Enterprise	Large sized enterprise refers to enterprises which employ more than 250 persons and which have an annual turnover over 50 million euro.
Public Service Organisation	A government entity or publicly funded organization that provides services for the benefit of society (e.g., healthcare, transportation, public administration).
Research Performing Organisation	A Research Performing Organization (RPO) is any entity, like a university, institute, or think tank, whose primary function involves conducting systematic investigation (research) to generate new knowledge, often with a mission to inform policy or advance science. Includes Higher Education Institutions and Research Institutes.

*List of eligible countries (EU + affiliated countries): Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom. Read more information about third countries associated to Horizon Europe at the moment.

Please contact us via the contact form and let’s find out the best solution for your needs!

Can you present us with an AI development idea that makes sense, has (business) potential and is technically feasible? If you think so, and we think so, then the European Union and your country will invest in your idea by paying for the LUMI AI Factory’s resources you need. You can use the money you save to support your project or business. The value of our support for large scale computing tasks can be remarkable. We hope it reduces your risks and encourages you to think big and act quick! 

“Free of charge” means you do not need to pay for computing time, training and skills development, access to data sources or expert consultation available in LUMI AI Factory. It does not mean that you can use all resources as much as you wish. We will help you estimate the amount of resources you need, and to apply for the required resources from the EU or your national funding provider. Don’t worry, it is worth those one or two meetings and a few days’ waiting! 

There are no free lunches, so here’s what you need to know and do to get access to LUMI AI Factory’s services free of charge:

Tell us who you are

You must be an officially established startup or an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise), as defined by the EU. Please see more information above on this page under ‘Who can use our services’. You must be based in the European Union or an affiliated country. Individual persons or temporary teams are not entitled to our services. Free-of-charge services are not available to Large companies – if you are one, you can also just pay for our competitively priced services, or look for a collaborative R&D project funded either by EU or a national funding agency.

What we need to know

You do not need to pay for any part of the services, but you need to provide your resources – ideas, skills, experts with working time and ambition to reach your goal. Your AI project idea will be evaluated against criteria such as technical feasibility, risk analysis etc. – no sweat, we will guide you through these! With our support, your needs for resources will be estimated. With this estimate, you can apply for a permit to use our resources from the EU or national funds. When applying for resources from a national funding agency, you are responsible for knowing that your company has not used up all national state aid available to companies (maximum 300.000 € in three years’ time).  

What you get

You will usually need to start with a small computing pilot project to ensure that your development idea is suitable for a supercomputer and that you are able to use it. When that is proven, you can get access to more resources. LUMI AI Factory’s resources are available for RDI (Research and Development) purposes. To deploy and offer your results to end users 24/7 and/or commercially, we can help you to find a platform and deploy there. All IPR (intellectual property rights) remain with you.

When you’re done

When you are finished with your EU-funded computing project, you need to fill in a short final report listing main features of the project (e.g. project team, computational problem executed etc). It is possible to sign an NDA to cover the sensitive parts of your project. If you have applied through a national funding mechanism (eg. Business Finland computing capacity grant), you will need to report the value of the resources you used as “state aid” to your national authority. We will inform you of the final value of the resources you used. Finally, when telling the world of your results, you are expected to acknowledge the role of LUMI AI Factory and EuroHPC JU.

Let’s do it free of charge!

We don’t want your IPR or shares in your company. We want you to succeed and prosper. It is in Europe’s interest. Make us an AI development project offer we can’t refuse! Start by contacting us.

Some terminology and names:

• The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a world‑class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe. EuroHPC JU owns half of LUMI supercomputer and grants access to it.
• LUMI: The current EuroHPC AI supercomputer
• LUMI-AI: The upcoming EuroHPC AI supercomputer that will enable next-generation AI workflows and model training, characterised by challenging, novel types of training data. The system’s key computational resource will be a large, accelerated partition with latest generation GPUs.
• LUMI AI Factory: The pioneering, open AI ecosystem integrating world-class computing power, high-value data, and top-tier AI talent. Consists of the LUMI and LUMI-AI supercomputers, LUMI-IQ, and the LUMI AI Factory Service centre.
• LUMI AI Factory consortium countries: Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Poland.
• Business Finland: An example of a national actor who grants national funds for AI development projects.

Access opportunities

For all the eligible customers*, computing services are available through EuroHPC JU calls, including “AI for Science and collaborative EU projects” (eg. Horizon Europe and Digital Europe programme). In addition, in Finland it is currently possible to apply for nationally funded RDI collaborative projects with academia, as well as access resources commercially by paying for usage based on consumption.

Startups and SMEs* can also apply for free-of-charge computing access through EuroHPC JU’s “AI for Industrial Innovation call”. This call offers so called Playground, Fast Lane and Large Scale Access modes. More information is available here. In Finland, it is possible to apply also for a Business Finland computing capacity grant, which is subject to state aid rules.

The available computing capacity options and conditions may depend also on the specific service and the country of the applicant.

• Customers from LUMI AI Factory consortium countries (Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway and Poland) can use both EuroHPC JU calls and national access opportunities. Please contact us via our contact form and we will find the best solution for you to get access.
• Customers who are not from a LUMI AI Factory consortium country but from the EU Member States and countries associated with the Horizon Europe programme* can access computing services only through the EuroHPC JU calls. Please contact us and we will help you get access.

* Definitions: please check from ‘Who can use our services’ above in this page.

Pricing

• The computing resources are open and free-of-charge to startups and SMEs for the purposes of research, development and innovation.
• You can also pay for LUMI AI Factory services via commercial access (currently possible for Finnish companies).
  • You get easier and quicker access to the services
  • You do not need to publish the project results 
  • Your projects and data will remain safe in a European environment
• The LUMI service price list is currently used for the LUMI AI Factory’s computing services. Until the LUMI-AI supercomputer is available in 2027, the services are run on the existing LUMI supercomputer.

LUMI AI Factory offers an extensive selection of datasets to be used in LUMI projects for AI Development.

The datasets are available free-of-charge, but to use them, the user has to be part of a research project that has been granted resources on LUMI. 

In addition, some datasets may not be openly available to all users. LUMI AI Factory provides the DaaS service and the supporting infrastructure, while any external data provider invoices the customer directly.

The LUMI AI Factory consultation is open and free of charge for startups and SMEs from the EU Member States and countries associated with the Horizon Europe programme.

In consultation and support services, the pricing is based on the price list of the LUMI AI Factory consortium country providing the services. This is why the prices may vary between countries.

• In commercial access, a customer will be invoiced according to the price list. The final price is based on the actual usage of the consulting services.
• In free-of-charge access, a customer will be informed about the value of the service for state aid reporting. The value is based on the actual usage of the consulting services.

The LUMI AI Factory training activities are open and free of charge for participants from the EU Member States and countries associated with the Horizon Europe programme, including academic users, startups, and SMEs. For large companies, please contact us to discuss participation options.