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CKAN pricing
CKAN publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
CKAN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where CKAN stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Data Management
- API Access
- Visualization
No paid tier on record
CKAN lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full CKAN 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
- Dataset Management
- Data Harvesting
- API Access
- Visualization
- Extensions
Integrations
- DataPusher
- Harvester
- Third-party Tools
Platform
- Web support
People bring CKAN in for publishing open government datasets in a searchable public data portal, self-hosting a data catalogue with harvesting and an api. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to CKAN are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for CKAN
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.
CKAN runs on web, and is published by Open Knowledge Foundation of Cambridge, United Kingdom. The full record is on the CKAN review.
CKAN pricing questions
- How much does CKAN cost?
- CKAN publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does CKAN have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers data management, api access, visualization.
- What am I actually paying for with CKAN?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for publishing open government datasets in a searchable public data portal, self-hosting a data catalogue with harvesting and an api.
- Does CKAN 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 CKAN 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 CKAN against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to CKAN to make a useful price comparison.