Cost-efficiency analysis: what processing a trade on DISACON CORE costs in cloud infrastructure
Model calculation with two load scenarios: around 0.1 cents of infrastructure cost per trade at 66 and 220 million trades per year.
Montabaur, 1 August 2025 – In a cost-efficiency analysis, DISACON calculated how the cost of the cloud infrastructure of DISACON CORE develops as trading volumes increase. The aim was to make infrastructure costs per transaction and total processing time transparent for different volumes.
The analysis is based on two load scenarios with fixed parameters: comparable CPU resources, constant execution logic and a measured processing time of 10 milliseconds per trade. The costs are extrapolated – this is a model calculation, not figures from live client operations.
In the medium scenario with around 66 million trades per year, the result is a cloud setup of approx. EUR 6,000 per month, i.e. around 0.11 cents of infrastructure cost per trade, with a total processing time of about 50 minutes. In the high scenario with around 220 million trades per year, a cloud setup of approx. EUR 17,000 per month was assumed, around 0.1 cents per trade, with a total processing time of about 90 minutes.
Important for context: the figures cover only the cloud infrastructure for processing. Licence, operation, staff, connections, data feeds and project costs are not included. A client's actual total costs are therefore considerably higher and depend on the respective operating model.
The analysis shows that the platform's infrastructure costs do not rise proportionally with volume: additional computing capacity can be added in stages, while the base costs remain largely stable. For institutions, this means predictable infrastructure costs even as volumes grow.
Note (October 2026): the context of the figures has been clarified. The figures of the analysis are unchanged.
About DISACON AG (current company profile, as of October 2026)
DISACON AG, based in Montabaur, Germany, develops and operates a cloud-based securities core banking platform for processing securities, securities account and cash account business. The core team has been working together on financial and settlement systems for more than 20 years. In the Bankfactory, DISACON's workbench, new products are created by specialised AI agents – under the responsibility of experienced professionals.