Cybersecurity · pricing
Cosign pricing
Cosign publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cybersecurity tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Cosign pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Cosign 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cosign | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Cosign stops being free
Cosign, Free
- Apache-2.0
- Public Sigstore infrastructure free to use
- No usage limits published
- Community support only
No paid tier on record
Cosign lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Cosign 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
- Keyless signing
- Key and KMS signing
- Registry-native storage
- In-toto attestations
- Offline verification
- Trusted root and signing config
People bring Cosign in for signing container images in a build pipeline without managing long-lived private keys, attaching a signed bill of materials to a release so consumers can verify its provenance, meeting a customer or regulatory requirement for signed artifacts, verifying third-party images before they enter an internal registry. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Cosign are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cybersecurity
Too few cybersecurity 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosign (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Hanwha Vision | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs Cosign |
| BeyondTrust | On request | quote | - | vs Cosign |
| Feedzai | On request | quote | - | vs Cosign |
| IDnow | On request | quote | - | vs Cosign |
| Eagle Eye Networks | On request | Per camera per month | - | vs Cosign |
| iDenfy | On request | Per verification | - | vs Cosign |
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 Cosign badges page.
Before you pay for Cosign
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.
Cosign runs on macos, linux, windows, docker, and is published by Sigstore, under the Open Source Security Foundation of Linux Foundation project, distributed. The full record is on the Cosign review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.
Cosign pricing questions
- How much does Cosign cost?
- Cosign publishes a single tier, Cosign, at Free.
- Does Cosign have a free plan?
- Yes. The Cosign tier costs nothing and covers apache-2.0, public sigstore infrastructure free to use, no usage limits published.
- Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Cosign have a free tier: Google Authenticator.
- What am I actually paying for with Cosign?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for signing container images in a build pipeline without managing long-lived private keys, attaching a signed bill of materials to a release so consumers can verify its provenance, meeting a customer or regulatory requirement for signed artifacts.
- Does Cosign 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 Cosign 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 Cosign against before paying?
- The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Hanwha Vision, BeyondTrust, Feedzai, IDnow. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Cosign covering price, platforms and features.