Pricing
Four pricing tiers with feature comparison, competitor analysis, and FAQ
What you see
URL: /pricing (public, no login required)
The pricing page presents PodWarden's four plans, a detailed feature comparison table, a competitor pricing comparison section, and a FAQ. All pricing is per organization -- 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 org | For growing teams | 5 team members, 5 clusters, 50 DDNS subdomains + custom slugs |
| Business | $79/mo per org | For teams with compliance needs | Unlimited team members, unlimited clusters, unlimited DDNS + BYOD |
| Enterprise | Custom | For organizations at scale | Everything in Business + on-premise control plane, managed operations |
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 | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Servers | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Clusters | 1 | 5 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Team members | 1 | 5 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| DDNS subdomains | 1 | 50 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Custom slugs | -- | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own domain | -- | -- | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud catalog and fleet API | -- | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image registry cache | -- | 50 GB | 500 GB | Unlimited |
| Private template catalogs | -- | -- | Yes | Yes |
| SSO and audit logs | -- | -- | Yes | Yes |
| On-premise control plane | -- | -- | -- | Yes |
| Managed operations | -- | -- | -- | Yes |
| Support | Community | Priority email | Dedicated account manager |
Pricing model
PodWarden charges per organization, not per server or per seat. One price covers all servers, all deployments, and all workloads within that organization.
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 |
| Start Business | Business 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
vxloc.com. IP auto-detected every 5 minutes, DNS updated via Cloudflare, HTTPS via Let's Encrypt on your gateway node. - What does "per organization" mean? -- One price covers the entire organization. Limits apply to team member count and cluster count, not servers or deployments.
- 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