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Consul pricing
Consul 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
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Consul 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 | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Consul stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Service discovery
- Health checking
- KV store
- DNS interface
No paid tier on record
Consul lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Consul 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
- Service discovery
- Health checking
- Key/value store
- Multi-datacenter
- DNS interface
- Service mesh
- Load balancing
- Configuration management
Integrations
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Docker
- Nomad
- Envoy
Security
- TLS
- ACL
- Encryption
Deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Hybrid deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Cloud support
People bring Consul in for service discovery and health checking across dynamic infrastructure, running a service mesh with mutual tls between services, distributed key value configuration storage for applications. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Consul are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Consul
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.
Consul runs on linux, windows, mac, cloud, and is published by HashiCorp of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Consul review.
Consul pricing questions
- How much does Consul cost?
- Consul publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does Consul have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers service discovery, health checking, kv store.
- What am I actually paying for with Consul?
- The record lists 23 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for service discovery and health checking across dynamic infrastructure, running a service mesh with mutual tls between services, distributed key value configuration storage for applications.
- Does Consul 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 Consul 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 Consul against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Consul to make a useful price comparison.