Pricing
Three pricing tiers (Free, Pro, Enterprise) with feature comparison, competitor analysis, and FAQ
What you see
URL: /pricing (public, no login required)
The pricing page presents PodWarden's three plans (Free, Pro and Enterprise), a detailed feature comparison table, a competitor pricing comparison section, and a FAQ. All pricing is per cluster -- not per server, not per seat.
Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Tagline | Key limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 forever | Most users | 1 team member, 1 cluster, 1 DDNS subdomain |
| Pro | $19/mo per cluster | For growing teams | 5 team members, 5 clusters, 50 DDNS subdomains + custom slugs, your own DNS domains |
| Enterprise | Custom | For organizations at scale | Unlimited team members, clusters and DDNS subdomains, your own DNS domains, on-premise control plane, managed operations |
There is no "Business" tier. Older versions of this page listed one; its features are part of Enterprise.
What every plan includes
All plans -- including Free -- include:
- Unlimited servers
- All templates and deployments
- GPU placement and secrets management
- Full deployment history and rollback
- Logs and monitoring
- Network awareness
- Ingress and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS
Key differentiators by tier
| Feature | Free | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Servers | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Clusters | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Team members | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| DDNS subdomains on PodWarden domains | 1 | 50 | Unlimited |
| Custom slugs | -- | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own domain (your own Cloudflare zone) | -- | Yes, unlimited names | Yes, unlimited names |
| Cloud catalog and fleet API | -- | Yes | Yes |
| Image registry cache | -- | 50 GB | Unlimited |
| Private template catalogs | -- | -- | Yes |
| SSO and audit logs | -- | -- | Yes |
| On-premise control plane | -- | -- | Yes |
| Managed operations | -- | -- | Yes |
| Support | Community | Dedicated account manager |
"Bring your own domain" means adding a Cloudflare zone you own so Hub manages A records in it. The older idea of pointing your domain at a Hub subdomain with a CNAME is not offered. Details: Hub DDNS: Your own domains.
Pricing model
PodWarden charges per cluster, not per server or per seat. Each cluster you manage is billed at the tier rate. All servers, deployments, and workloads within a cluster are included.
The rationale: PodWarden runs on your hardware. Your compute, your electricity, your bandwidth. Adding a server to your fleet has zero marginal cost to PodWarden, so there is no charge for it.
Paid tiers cover the things that cost PodWarden money: cloud infrastructure for the catalog and fleet API, registry storage for image caching, and support staffing.
Available actions
| Action | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Get Started | Free tier card | Redirects to sign-in / sign-up |
| Start Pro | Pro tier card | Redirects to sign-in / sign-up |
| Contact Us | Enterprise tier card | Opens an email to [email protected] |
FAQ highlights
The pricing page includes answers to common questions:
- Is the free tier actually free? -- Yes. No credit card, no time limit, no trial.
- What happens if I add 50 servers on Free? -- It works. No server limits on any plan.
- How do DDNS subdomains work? -- Auto-generated or custom slugs under one of PodWarden's parent domains (listed in the dashboard), or any name under your own Cloudflare zone on Pro and Enterprise. IP auto-detected every 5 minutes, DNS updated via Cloudflare, HTTPS via Let's Encrypt on your gateway node.
- What happens to my own domain if I downgrade? -- It is frozen: updates stop, and your records stay in your zone untouched. Upgrading resumes it.
- What does "per cluster" mean? -- Each cluster you manage is billed at the tier rate. Not per user, not per server. One cluster, one price.
- Do you offer SLAs? -- No uptime SLAs (your infrastructure, not ours). Enterprise customers get a dedicated account manager and direct engineering access.
- Can I switch plans? -- Yes, upgrade or downgrade at any time. No contracts, no cancellation fees.
- What if I stop using PodWarden? -- Your clusters are standard K3s. Uninstall PodWarden and your infrastructure keeps running.
Related docs
- Landing Page -- Marketing overview
- Settings -- View your organization's current tier
- Admin Organizations -- Admin tier management