Cloud · pricing
Caddy pricing
Caddy publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cloud tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Caddy 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.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caddy | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Caddy stops being free
Caddy, Free
- Full functionality
- Commercial use permitted
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Caddy lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Caddy 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.
Other
- Automatic HTTPS
- Caddyfile
- Reverse proxy
- Single binary
People bring Caddy in for sites and services where expired certificates have caused outages before, small deployments where nginx configuration is more effort than the problem warrants, reverse proxying internal services with tls without a certificate workflow. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Caddy are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Too few cloud 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.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddy (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Zipkin | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Caddy |
| HAProxy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Caddy |
| Thanos | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Caddy |
| Flux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Caddy |
| Kustomize | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Caddy |
| VictoriaMetrics | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Caddy |
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 Caddy badges page.
Before you pay for Caddy
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Caddy runs on linux, macos, windows, docker, and is published by Stack Holdings of United States. The full record is on the Caddy review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Caddy pricing questions
- How much does Caddy cost?
- Caddy publishes a single tier, Caddy, at Free.
- Does Caddy have a free plan?
- Yes. The Caddy tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, commercial use permitted, community support.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Caddy have a free tier: Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux, Kustomize.
- What am I actually paying for with Caddy?
- The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for sites and services where expired certificates have caused outages before, small deployments where nginx configuration is more effort than the problem warrants, reverse proxying internal services with tls without a certificate workflow.
- Does Caddy charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Caddy 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 Caddy against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Caddy covering price, platforms and features.