Pricing · Same features on every plan
$1.99 per vCPU per month, down to $0.60 at volume.
First 100 vCPU free. No feature gates. Billed on requested vCPU, averaged over the month.
- First 100 vCPUFREE
- Billable 0–500$1.99
- Billable 500–2,000$1.49
- Billable 2,000–5,000$0.99
- Billable 5,000+$0.60
Startup pricing — flat $0.60 / vCPU after the first 100, no tier math.
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Estimate your monthly bill.
Enter your total vCPU. The first 100 are free.
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Tier reference
- First 100 vCPUFREE
- Billable 0–500$1.99
- Billable 500–2,000$1.49
- Billable 2,000–5,000$0.99
- Billable 5,000+$0.60
Tier slices apply to billable vCPU (total − 100).
Estimated bill $2,336.00 per month for 1,500 vCPU.
Estimated bill$2,336.00
per month
12 × monthly
$28,032.00
Average per vCPU
$1.56
across all vCPU, free 100 included
Breakdown
- First 100 vCPUFREE
- 500 × $1.99$995.00
- 900 × $1.49$1,341.00
- Monthly$2,336.00
Where you sit
Billable vCPU 500 through 2,000 bill at $1.49 each. The first 100 stay free and the first 500 billable stay at $1.99.
Estimate only. Your bill uses requested vCPU sampled every minute and averaged over the month. Read the billing docs for the details.
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No feature gates.
Free and paid accounts get the same product. You pay for vCPU, not features.
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Every minute
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Germany (EU)
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Available
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All accounts, including free
Startups pay a flat $0.60 per vCPU.
You still get the first 100 vCPU free. Every billable vCPU above that bills at a flat $0.60, so there are no tiers to model.
Standard
$1.99 → $0.60
/ vCPU / mo · tiered · after first 100
Startups
$0.60
/ vCPU / mo · flat · after first 100
Company age
Less than 3 years old
Team size
Fewer than 30 employees
Funding raised
Less than $6M total
Tick all three? Email us a one-line confirmation and we switch your account to the startup rate. Use the startup toggle in the calculator above to estimate your bill.
Talk to us about larger deployments.
Above 5,000 billable vCPU the rate is $0.60 per vCPU per month, the same number published above. Bring your contract terms and security review and we will go through them with you.
Your paperwork
Multi-year agreements, your DPA, and your security addendum. Send them and we will review them.
Security review
Send your questionnaire. The Security page lists what the agents collect and every permission they ask for.
- See the Security page before your review.
Common questions
Pricing FAQ
We sample the requested vCPU on every running pod once per minute and average over the billing month. We bill on requests, not on limits or actual usage, because requests are what your scheduler reserves. System namespaces (kube-system, kubeadapt) do not count.
Standard pricing is tiered against billable vCPU (total vCPU minus the free 100). Tier 1 covers the first 500 billable vCPU at $1.99, tier 2 covers the next 1,500 at $1.49, tier 3 covers the next 3,000 at $0.99, and tier 4 covers everything above 5,000 billable at $0.60. Each tier prices only the units inside it, the same way income tax brackets work: you never pay the higher rate on the lower slice.
The first 100 vCPU of your environment are free, no matter the cluster count. The rest flows through the tiers. A 105 vCPU footprint pays 5 × $1.99 = $9.95 / month. A 1,500 vCPU footprint pays (500 × $1.99) + (900 × $1.49) = $2,336 / month on standard. A 6,100 vCPU footprint pays $6,800 / month. The 100 applies to your total usage, not per cluster. Startups skip the tier math and bill the same 6,000 billable vCPU at $0.60 = $3,600 / month.
Billable vCPU is averaged per minute over the month. A spike to 130 vCPU for two hours bills the extra 30 vCPU at the tier-1 rate ($1.99) for those two hours and nothing else. There is no retroactive penalty for the rest of the month and no cliff at 101 vCPU.
No. The cluster agent is one pod per cluster and requests 100m CPU and 256 MiB memory (it can use more on large clusters). The optional network agent adds one pod per node, requesting 100m CPU and 256 MiB. Neither counts toward billable vCPU.
Yes. Email us. Standard is tiered; startup is a flat $0.60 / vCPU on billable usage. We confirm eligibility once a year. If you outgrow it (raised more than $6M, hired your 30th employee, or passed your third birthday) we move you to standard tiered pricing at the start of the next billing month, never mid-month.
Annual prepay gets you two months free (effectively 16.7% off). Multi-year contracts are available on request; we do not discount the per-vCPU rate further, but we lock it for the contract length.
We invoice monthly in USD, paid by card or bank transfer.
Yes. The free allowance, the first 100 vCPU across your account, works as the trial. No credit card to start.
We email you first. If an invoice stays unpaid, we may suspend the account after notice, as our terms describe.
Still uncertain? Email sales@kubeadapt.io and we will reply with the math worked out for your environment.
Free under 100 vCPU · No credit card
See what your clusters cost.
Connect your first cluster in about 5 minutes. The first 100 vCPU are free, no card required. Above that, the rate goes from $1.99 down to $0.60.