Kubernetes Pricing
Starting price
$0/month
Pricing model
Free
Free tier
Yes
Free trial
No
Plans
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | $0 | month | Container orchestration; Automated rollouts/rollbacks; Service discovery & load balancing |
| AWS EKS | $0.1 | month | Managed control plane; Auto-scaling node groups; Fargate serverless pods |
| Google GKE | $0.1 | month | Managed control plane; Autopilot mode (fully managed nodes); One free zonal cluster |
| Azure AKS | $0 | month | Free control plane (Free tier); Standard tier at $0.10/cluster/hr; Premium tier for mission-critical |
Figures are the vendor's published prices. Unknown values show as “—”. Price-history tracking is not yet available for this tool. Price verified 2026-09-29. Last updated 2026-10-08.
True cost
True cost calculator
| Plan | Listed | Seat basis | Monthly · 5 seats | Annual · 5 seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | $0/month | flat | $0 | $0 |
| AWS EKS | $0.1/month | flat | $0 | $1 |
| Google GKE | $0.1/month | flat | $0 | $1 |
| Azure AKS | $0/month | flat | $0 | $0 |
Estimate from published prices. Per-seat plans scale with seats; flat plans don't; plans with included seats charge the base until you exceed them, then add the per-seat overage where published. Monthly/annual come from each plan's billing period. Taxes and add-ons excluded.
Kubernetes's starting price ($0) is 100% below the DevOps & Monitoring average of $266.