Pricing at scale

Why pricing breaks at large catalog sizes — and how Quantaprice fixes it

Millions of SKUs, thousands of pricelists, complex B2B rules, and real-time updates push traditional pricing systems past their limits. Quantaprice is a purpose-built pricing engine that handles all of it with deterministic millisecond-level latency.

The Problem: pricing as a bottleneck

Large retailers, distributors, and marketplaces hit the same wall: their pricing logic becomes too big and too interdependent for traditional systems to handle. Typical symptoms:
  • Millions of SKU × pricelist combinations grind relational databases to a halt.
  • Complex B2B rules (contracts, overrides, regional lists, quantity breaks) explode into unmanageable logic trees.
  • Publishing prices to e-commerce or CPQ becomes slow, inconsistent, or unreliable.
  • Price updates take minutes or hours instead of milliseconds.
  • Peak traffic forces caching layers that hide stale or wrong prices.
  • Any attempt to add versioning, “as of” queries, or historical auditing makes performance collapse.
  • Scaling means buying bigger hardware, more replicas, and more caching — but not solving the root problem.
The consequence is always the same:
pricing becomes a bottleneck for the business, blocking agility, accuracy, and speed.

The Solution: a purpose-built pricing engine

Quantaprice is a pricing engine built from the ground up to handle catalog sizes, logic complexity, and update rates that conventional systems can’t. Key principles:
  • Precomputed pricing instead of runtime rule evaluation.
  • Column-family storage (RocksDB) that handles tens of millions of price entries with consistent latency.
  • Immutable versioning for full history and clean “as of” pricing.
  • Pricelist inheritance that eliminates duplication and guarantees deterministic fallback logic.
  • Change-driven ingestion that applies updates instantly and incrementally.
  • Stateless, cache-safe API delivering millisecond-level price queries even under load.
What this gives you in practice:
  • Real-time price delivery for e-commerce, CPQ, marketplaces, and ERP integrations.
  • Zero dependency on external databases or join-heavy queries.
  • Stable performance even with thousands of pricelists, millions of SKUs, and constant updates.
  • A clear, auditable, fully versioned pricing model that never diverges across systems.
Quantaprice removes pricing as a bottleneck — it turns it into an infrastructure component you can rely on, scale, and automate.