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Crossplane pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Crossplane. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the cloud tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Crossplane catalogue entry carries no price, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Crossplane review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Crossplane 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
- Kubernetes extension
- Custom API building
Infrastructure
- Resource management anywhere
API
- Declarative interfaces
Extensions
- Component library
- Provider ecosystem
People bring Crossplane in for building platform-as-a-service offerings for internal teams, creating unified control layers for multi-cloud infrastructure, designing declarative apis for infrastructure provisioning. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Crossplane 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossplane (this page) | Free | - | - | |
| Zipkin | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Crossplane |
| HAProxy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Crossplane |
| Thanos | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Crossplane |
| Flux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Crossplane |
| Kustomize | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Crossplane |
| VictoriaMetrics | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Crossplane |
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 Crossplane badges page.
Before you pay for Crossplane
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Crossplane runs on kubernetes, aws, azure, gcp, and is published by Crossplane. The full record is on the Crossplane review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Crossplane pricing questions
- How much does Crossplane cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for Crossplane. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does Crossplane have a free plan?
- Yes, Crossplane is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Crossplane have a free tier: Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux, Kustomize.
- What am I actually paying for with Crossplane?
- The record lists 6 features across 4 areas: core, infrastructure, api, extensions. In practice it is brought in for building platform-as-a-service offerings for internal teams, creating unified control layers for multi-cloud infrastructure, designing declarative apis for infrastructure provisioning.
- Does Crossplane charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 Crossplane 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 Crossplane against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Crossplane covering price, platforms and features.