Subscriptions

Pricing Model

PodWarden Hub pricing is per cluster, not per server or per seat. All plans include unlimited servers — your hardware, your electricity.

Plans

Free — $0/month

Get started at no cost:

• Unlimited servers
• Access to all public catalog templates
• 1 API key
• 1 team member
• 1 cluster
• 1 DDNS subdomain (auto-generated name)
• Ingress & reverse proxy (Caddy gateway)
• GPU placement, secrets, full deployment history
• Community support

Best for: Homelabs, individuals, small teams evaluating PodWarden.

Pro — $19/month

For teams and growing fleets:

• Everything in Free
• 5 API keys
• 5 team members
• 5 clusters
• 50 DDNS subdomains with custom slugs
• Bring your own domain: add your own Cloudflare zone, unlimited names (details)
• Cloud catalog & fleet API
• Image registry cache (50 GB)
• Email support

Best for: Growing teams that need shared catalog access, multiple public endpoints, and registry caching.

Enterprise — Custom pricing

For organizations at scale:

• Everything in Pro
• Unlimited API keys
• Unlimited team members and clusters
• Unlimited DDNS subdomains on PodWarden domains
• Bring your own domain (your own Cloudflare zone, unlimited names)
• Private template catalogs (access-controlled categories)
• SSO & audit logs
• On-premise control plane
• Managed operations
• Unlimited registry storage
• Dedicated account manager
• Custom integrations
• Compliance & security review

Contact us for Enterprise pricing.

There is no Business tier; older versions of this page listed one, and its features are part of Enterprise. "Bring your own domain" means adding your own Cloudflare zone. The older CNAME-to-a-Hub-subdomain idea is not offered.

If you downgrade or leave

• Pro → Free: your own DNS domains are frozen. Updates stop, and records in your zone stay as they are. Upgrading again resumes them.
• Deleting your organization: stored Cloudflare tokens are deleted immediately. DNS records in your zone are left in place for you to remove.

Why Unlimited Servers?

The self-hosted PodWarden tool runs on your hardware. When you add servers to your fleet, we don't incur compute costs. Charging per server would create a tax on growth — discouraging you from scaling when that's exactly what you need.

We charge for the things that cost us money: cloud infrastructure (registry cache, catalog API), support, and collaboration features.

Managing Your Subscription

1. Sign in at www.podwarden.com
2. Navigate to Dashboard → Settings
3. Your current plan is shown under Organization

To upgrade, visit the Pricing page and select a plan.

Organizations

Each subscription is tied to an organization. Create an organization under Dashboard → Settings if you haven't already. You'll need:

• Organization Name — Your company or team name
• Slug — URL-friendly identifier (auto-generated from name)

All API keys and private template access are scoped to your organization.

Registry Cache

The image registry cache is one of the clearest values of a paid plan:

• Docker Hub rate limits — 100 pulls per 6 hours for anonymous users. A fleet-wide deployment can exhaust this in a single rollout. The cache pulls once and serves locally.
• Image availability — Maintainers delete tags. Repositories get removed. The registry cache pins the images your templates use, so third-party cleanup doesn't break your fleet.
• Speed — Cached images are served from PodWarden Hub infrastructure, faster than pulling from upstream registries for every server.