Tiers & pricing

You pay a flat price per control-plane replica, by tier. You never pay for nodes, vCPUs, or storage on hardware you own.

Prices are ex-VAT and indicative during early access — we confirm before charging anything, and tell you before anything changes.

Billing is by the hour

Every price on this page is billed per hour, from the moment a cluster is created to the moment it is deleted. That is why a cluster you run for a day costs a day, and why deleting one stops the charge immediately rather than at the end of a period.

It also means a month is however many hours it has. Each tier’s hourly rate is its monthly figure divided by 730 hours — the average month — so a 31-day month (744 hours) bills a little more than that figure and February (672 hours) a little less. The table shows both ends. Your invoice always shows the hours it counted.

Tiers

Each tier is exactly double the one before it, so price-per-capacity is constant and the price tracks the cost.

Tier	Price / replica	730-hour month	February	31-day month	Datastore	Comfortable for
Small	€7 ÷ 730 h = €0.009589 / hour	€7.00	€6.44	€7.13	1 GiB	~5 nodes
Medium	€14 ÷ 730 h = €0.019178 / hour	€14.00	€12.89	€14.27	2 GiB	~25 nodes
Large	€28 ÷ 730 h = €0.038356 / hour	€28.00	€25.78	€28.54	4 GiB	many nodes

Small suits a home cluster or a side project; Medium a small team running real workloads; Large production across several clouds.

Node counts are guidance, not a hard cap — you operate within the control plane’s CPU, memory, and datastore, not a license limit. If you approach the envelope, we prompt an upgrade rather than send a surprise bill.

Replicas

A cluster runs one replica by default (the headline price). Add replicas for redundancy and the price is tier × replicas:

Medium × 3 replicas  =  €0.019178 × 3  =  €0.057534 / hour

  over a 730-hour month   €42.00
  in a 31-day month       €42.81
  in February             €38.66

Each replica is a full control-plane set consuming a full slot, so linear price means constant margin — and you pay for exactly what runs, not a flat “HA surcharge”. See Scaling & redundancy.

Node-based control planes

A node-based control plane runs on machines in your own cloud account rather than on ours. It is priced per cluster-hour, not per replica:

€0.07 / cluster-hour  ≈ €50 over a 30-day month

Replica count, instance type, worker count, and data volume are all absent from that price. Running three control-plane machines instead of one costs you nothing extra with us — you already paid your cloud provider for them. What appears on your own cloud bill is the machines, their volumes, the load balancer in front of the API endpoint, and any snapshots; we never see or mark up those.

Add-ons

Add-ons attach to any cluster. Each is a flat price per cluster for the service; the two that meter (backup storage, ingress traffic) bill by bytes you can count, cap where you set them, and opt out to a genuine €0.

Add-on	Price	Meters?	Status
Backup & restore	€5 / mo	Storage beyond 250 GB	Early access
Public ingress	€4 / mo	Traffic beyond 500 GB	Early access
Monitoring	€9 / mo	Flat	Roadmap
Single sign-on	€5 / mo	Flat	Roadmap
CI runners	€5 / mo	Flat	Roadmap

An Essentials bundle (backup, ingress, monitoring, single sign-on) is €19/mo — below the à la carte total. Metered allowances still apply, still capped.

Add-on prices are shown per month while they are on the roadmap. Each converts to an hourly rate before it starts billing, the same way the tiers above do.

What we never charge for

• Your nodes — any number, any cloud, any time.
• Per-vCPU, per-core, or per-gigabyte of hardware you own.
• An opaque “resource units” overage meter. There isn’t one.

The full, current pricing also lives on the Control Plane product page.