Ana Just Got 25% Cheaper

TLDR: We've reduced Sandcastle lifecycles from 4 hours to 1 hour. Most customers will see total costs drop by about 25%, with API users seeing approximately 50% savings.

Cost optimization is an ongoing focus for us. Two weeks ago, we reduced Sandcastle lifecycles from longer hold times to 4 hours. Today, we're taking that even further—down to 1 hour.

1-Hour Sandcastle Lifecycles

Sandcastles are the isolated execution environments where Ana runs your analytical workloads. Our engineering team has been focused on reducing the minimum hold time without compromising performance or reliability.

Today, we're shipping 1-hour Sandcastle lifespans—down from 4 hours. This directly translates to lower costs.

Who Benefits Most: API users will see the biggest benefits with a roughly 50% reduction in total costs. Cloud users should see a 25% cost reduction.

Combined Impact

Over the past month, we've shipped multiple infrastructure improvements:

• LLM cache hit rate improvements
• 4-hour Sandcastle lifecycles (first optimization)
• 1-hour Sandcastle lifecycles (today's update)

Together, these changes mean customers are paying roughly 50% less than a month ago for the same analytical capabilities.

What You Need to Do

Nothing. These optimizations are already live and automatically benefiting your account. Same Ana, same security, same capabilities—just more efficient and significantly cheaper.

What's Next

Cost efficiency is a constant discipline for us. As we scale and improve our infrastructure, those savings flow directly to you.