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title: "Creating a Custom Rate Card"
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# Creating a Custom Rate Card

Custom rate cards allow you to specify the cost of individual components of the Kubernetes infrastructure, such as nodes, GPUs, storage, and networking, as well as for shared resources such as building and hardware costs, to best reflect your effective pricing plan. RealTheory can use the pricing you specify to provide an accurate cost analysis across all resources in your Kubernetes implementation.

See [Rate Cards Explained](https://resources.realtheory.io/docs/rate-cards-explained) for more information about rate cards.

## Prerequisite

To manage rate cards, you must have one of the following roles assigned to your user account:

- *sys_admin*
- *rate_card_admin*

## Procedure

1. As a user with either the *sys_admin* or *rate_card_admin* role, navigate to **Settings** > **Cost** > **Rate Cards**.
2. Click **Create New**.
3. Select **Custom**.
4. Click **Next**.
5. Provide a unique name for the new rate card.
6. Add a description that will help you remember the purpose and scope of the new rate card.
7. Enable each section that you want to provide cost information for.
8. Within each section, provide cost information for each sub-option that you want to provide cost information for.

**Note:** If you do not want to provide cost information for a sub-option, click the sub-option toggle control to disable that sub-option.
9. After you have provided all the cost information you want used for cost analysis, do one of the following:
  - If you are directly assigning the new rate card to the appropriate clusters, click **Save and Assign**. Go to Step 10.
  - If you are using rate card policies to assign rate cards to the appropriate clusters, click **Save** and then go to **Settings** > **Cost** > **Rate Card Policies** to verify that you have a rate card policy that applies this rate card to the appropriate cluster(s).
10. In the **Assign rate card to clusters** view, select the clusters that should use the new rate card.
11. Click **Update**.

The new rate card will be assigned to the selected clusters. As cost data is collected, it will be made available.

**See Also** [Rate Cards Explained](https://resources.realtheory.io/docs/rate-cards-explained) [Creating Rate Card Policies](https://resources.realtheory.io/docs/creating-rate-card-policies)