# Ownkube pricing

> Free Starter tier on one AWS instance. Then $5/month per vCPU and $1/month per GB RAM for Production. No markup on compute.

- **Canonical URL:** https://ownkube.io/pricing
- **Model:** Starter clusters (one AWS instance) are free forever. Production clusters (highly available across availability zones) are billed on requested app resources (vCPU + RAM). Cloud infrastructure costs go directly to your AWS/GCP account at the provider's published rates, so AWS Activate and GCP credits stretch further.
- **Credits:** AWS Activate and GCP for Startups credits apply to all cloud costs, because everything runs on your own cloud account.

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## Plans

### Starter
- One AWS instance
- Unlimited applications
- Preview environments
- Deploy from GitHub
- Certificate management
- AI error detection
- Monitoring (7 days)
- Community support
- **Cost:** $0. Free forever on a Starter cluster. No credit card required.

### Production: usage-based
- Everything in Starter
- Highly available across availability zones
- Autoscaling
- Jobs & cron jobs
- Managed Postgres
- Monitoring (30 days)
- Logging (7 days)
- Alerting
- Email support
- **Cost:** $5 / vCPU / month + $1 / GB RAM / month (Ownkube platform fee). Cloud infrastructure billed separately by your cloud provider at wholesale rates.

### Enterprise
- Everything in Production
- Premium support with SLAs
- Advanced RBAC
- SAML-based SSO
- On-prem installation
- Dedicated account manager
- **Cost:** custom. Contact sales.

## How the bill breaks down

1. **Ownkube platform fee:** billed by Ownkube, based on the app resources you request.
2. **Cloud infrastructure:** billed directly by AWS (or GCP, when available). You see the raw cloud bill. Ownkube never marks it up.
3. **Startup credits:** because infrastructure is billed by your cloud provider, any AWS Activate, GCP for Startups, or similar credits apply in full.

## What counts as a vCPU / GB RAM

- Billed on requested resources for your Ownkube-managed workloads, summed across apps, workers, jobs, and preview environments that are running.
- Auto-sleep schedules reduce running hours for non-production environments.
- Preview environments share quota with your cluster.

## FAQ

**Is there a free tier forever?** Yes. Starter clusters (one AWS instance) are free indefinitely, no credit card.

**Can I use AWS Activate credits?** Yes. Ownkube runs on your AWS account, so all cloud costs apply to existing credits.

**Do I pay Ownkube for idle apps?** You pay for requested resources while they're running. Auto-sleep reduces this for dev/preview environments.

**Is there a discount for annual commits?** Contact us for Enterprise pricing.

## CTAs

- **Start free:** https://app.ownkube.io/signup
- **Sign in:** https://app.ownkube.io/login
- **Homepage:** https://ownkube.io/ ([index.md](https://ownkube.io/index.md))