Cloud · pricing
containerd pricing
containerd 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
containerd 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| containerd | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where containerd stops being free
containerd, Free
- Full functionality
- No usage limits
- Community support
No paid tier on record
containerd lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full containerd 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
- Full container lifecycle
- CRI support
- OCI compliant
- Snapshotter plugins
- Namespaces
- Stable API
People bring containerd in for running the container runtime under a kubernetes cluster after the docker shim removal, building a platform or paas that needs to execute containers, reducing the moving parts on nodes that only ever run kubernetes workloads, embedding container execution inside another product. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to containerd 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| containerd (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Zipkin | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs containerd |
| HAProxy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs containerd |
| Thanos | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs containerd |
| Flux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs containerd |
| Kustomize | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs containerd |
| VictoriaMetrics | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs containerd |
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 containerd badges page.
Before you pay for containerd
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.
containerd runs on linux, windows, and is published by Cloud Native Computing Foundation of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the containerd review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
containerd pricing questions
- How much does containerd cost?
- containerd publishes a single tier, containerd, at Free.
- Does containerd have a free plan?
- Yes. The containerd tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, no usage limits, community support.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside containerd have a free tier: Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux, Kustomize.
- What am I actually paying for with containerd?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for running the container runtime under a kubernetes cluster after the docker shim removal, building a platform or paas that needs to execute containers, reducing the moving parts on nodes that only ever run kubernetes workloads.
- Does containerd 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 containerd 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 containerd against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with containerd covering price, platforms and features.