How much does Ansible cost?

Ansible publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to $5000/year for Ansible Automation Platform. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Ansible have a free plan?

Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers community edition, unlimited nodes, full functionality. Paying starts at $5000/year for Ansible Automation Platform.

What is the difference between Open Source and Ansible Automation Platform on Ansible?

Ansible Automation Platform costs $5000/year against Free, and adds enterprise support, ansible tower, advanced features, consulting included.

Which development tools tools can I use without paying?

7 of the 7 development tools tools listed alongside Ansible have a free tier: Deno, Buildkite, Argo CD, Bitbucket, Claude Code.

What am I actually paying for with Ansible?

The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for configuration management, server provisioning, application deployment.

Does Ansible charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Ansible prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Ansible against before paying?

The closest development tools tools in this directory are Deno, Buildkite, Argo CD, Bitbucket. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Ansible covering price, platforms and features.

Development Tools · pricing

Ansible pricing

Ansible publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Open-source
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Ansible plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Ansible pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Open Source	Free	4	Entry tier
Ansible Automation Platform	$5000/year	4	+$5000/year, 4 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Open Source

Free

The entry tier. It covers community edition, unlimited nodes, full functionality, self-hosted.

Ansible Automation Platform

$5000/year

Over Open Source, this tier adds:

Enterprise support
Ansible Tower
Advanced features
Consulting included

Where Ansible stops being free

Open Source, Free

Community edition
Unlimited nodes
Full functionality
Self-hosted

Ansible Automation Platform, $5000/year

The first thing you pay for:

Enterprise support
Ansible Tower
Advanced features
Consulting included

What the product covers

The full Ansible feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Playbooks
Inventory management
Module library
Variables and templating
Handlers
Roles
Async tasks
Plugins

Integrations

AWS
Azure
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes

Security

SSH based
Vault for secrets

Deployment

On-premise deployment
Cloud deployment

Platform

Linux support
Windows support
Mac support
Api support

People bring Ansible in for configuration management, server provisioning, application deployment, multi-node management, orchestration. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Ansible are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Development Tools

Too few development tools tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Ansible entry price against other Development Tools tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Ansible (this page)	Free	open-source	-
Deno	Free	freemium	-	vs Ansible
Buildkite	Free	freemium	-	vs Ansible
Argo CD	Free	open-source	-	vs Ansible
Bitbucket	Free, then $3.65/month	-	-	vs Ansible
Claude Code	Free	freemium	-	vs Ansible
Azure DevOps	Free	freemium	-	vs Ansible

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Ansible badges page.

Before you pay for Ansible

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $5000/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Ansible runs on linux, windows, mac, api, and is published by Red Hat Ansible of Durham, NC. The full record is on the Ansible review, and the rest of the category is under best development tools tools.

Ansible pricing on the vendor's own site

Ansible pricing questions

How much does Ansible cost?: Ansible publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to $5000/year for Ansible Automation Platform. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Ansible have a free plan?: Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers community edition, unlimited nodes, full functionality. Paying starts at $5000/year for Ansible Automation Platform.
What is the difference between Open Source and Ansible Automation Platform on Ansible?: Ansible Automation Platform costs $5000/year against Free, and adds enterprise support, ansible tower, advanced features, consulting included.
Which development tools tools can I use without paying?: 7 of the 7 development tools tools listed alongside Ansible have a free tier: Deno, Buildkite, Argo CD, Bitbucket, Claude Code.
What am I actually paying for with Ansible?: The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for configuration management, server provisioning, application deployment.
Does Ansible charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Ansible prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Ansible against before paying?: The closest development tools tools in this directory are Deno, Buildkite, Argo CD, Bitbucket. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Ansible covering price, platforms and features.