Abstract

Archeo Futurus commissioned Tolly to provide independent third-party validation of their compute credit pricing strategy and infrastructure capacity. This assessment examines pricing parity with major cloud providers and verification of installed compute capacity at AF Compute’s facilities.

Archeo Futurus is presented in this Tolly assessment as a newer infrastructure provider seeking to pair transparent, cloud-comparable pricing with independently verified service capacity. The report evaluates two core claims: first, that Archeo’s compute credit model provides the same purchasing power per dollar as comparable services from major cloud providers, and second, that the company’s deployed infrastructure can support substantial enterprise-scale demand. Tolly’s conclusion is that both claims are supported by the evidence reviewed.  

At the pricing level, Archeo uses a fungible compute credit system in which $1 of credit is intended to buy the same quantity of supported services as $1 spent with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. Tolly validated this by comparing current public pricing for representative infrastructure services including DNS, HTTP, and HTTPS requests. In the examples cited, Archeo matched cloud-provider pricing at $0.20 per million DNS requests, $0.75 per million HTTP requests, and $0.875 per million HTTPS requests, using the lowest available major-cloud price when minor differences existed. The report argues that this structure simplifies budgeting because credits can be applied flexibly across supported service types rather than being locked into separate pricing silos.  

On the infrastructure side, Tolly verified Archeo’s current deployment at the Seattle Internet Exchange, where the company has 200Gbps of connectivity at the Westin Building and uses AMD Alveo V80 FPGA-based hardware. Each FPGA exposes eight 100GbE ports, and prior Tolly testing established per-port throughput of approximately 148.8 million DNS requests per second. Using that measured baseline, Tolly calculates that Archeo’s current two-port active deployment supports roughly 297.6 million DNS requests per second, while a single fully utilized FPGA could support an annual service capacity potential of about $7.5 billion. The architecture is described as linearly scalable, with six unused ports on the current FPGA available for near-term expansion and additional units already on order for future growth.  

The report also emphasizes operational headroom. Rather than targeting sustained full utilization, Archeo’s model assumes single-digit average usage to preserve burst tolerance and DDoS resilience without specialized filtering infrastructure. Combined with expansion plans across additional Seattle Internet Exchange facilities and, according to Archeo, eventual extension toward the same 117 availability zones served by major cloud platforms, Tolly presents the environment as a specialized but scalable service platform. Overall, the assessment positions Archeo Futurus as offering verifiable price parity for supported network and request-processing services, backed by deployed FPGA infrastructure with meaningful enterprise capacity and room to scale.