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Depot pricing
Depot publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $20/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Depot 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | $20/month | 11 | Entry tier |
| Startup | $200/month | 9 | +$180/month, 8 more features |
| Business | On request | 11 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Developer
$20/monthThe entry tier. It covers 1 user, 500 docker build minutes per month, 2,000 depot ci minutes per month, 2,000 github actions minutes per month, 25 gb cache and registry storage, 1,000,000 passing test results.
Startup
$200/monthOver Developer, this tier adds:
- Unlimited users
- 5,000 Docker build minutes per month
- 20,000 Depot CI minutes per month
- 20,000 GitHub Actions minutes per month
- 250 GB cache and registry storage
- User RBAC
- All Developer features included
- Email support
Business
On requestOver Startup, this tier adds:
- Custom pricing
- Custom monthly compute
- Dedicated infrastructure
- GPU builds support
- Static outbound IPs
- Network firewall rules
- AWS PrivateLink
- SSO (SAML/SCIM)
- Audit logging
- Slack Connect support
What the product covers
The full Depot 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
- Depot CI
- Container builds
- GitHub Actions runners
- Distributed caching
- Build API
- Depot Registry
- Cross-platform builds
- SSH debugging
People bring Depot in for accelerating docker builds for container-based development, replacing github actions runners with faster infrastructure, distributing cache across monorepo builds, debugging failed ci builds interactively with ssh. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Depot are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Developer Tools
Across the 3 developer tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $29/month. Depot starts at $20/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depot (this page) | Free, then $20/month | - | - | |
| Swagger UI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Depot |
| Namespace | Free, then $100/month | - | - | vs Depot |
| Bazel | Free | open-source | - | vs Depot |
| Blacksmith | Free, then $0.004/minute | - | - | vs Depot |
| Earthly | Free | No pricing published on website | - | vs Depot |
| Nx Cloud | Free, then $29/month | credits-based | - | vs Depot |
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 Depot badges page.
Before you pay for Depot
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: 3 tiers between $20/month and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Depot runs on cloud, github, cli, and is published by Depot. The full record is on the Depot review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.
Depot pricing questions
- How much does Depot cost?
- Depot publishes 3 tiers, from $20/month for Developer up to On request for Business. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Depot have a free plan?
- Yes, Depot is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- What is the difference between Developer and Startup on Depot?
- Startup costs $200/month against $20/month, and adds unlimited users, 5,000 docker build minutes per month, 20,000 depot ci minutes per month, 20,000 github actions minutes per month.
- Is the Business plan on Depot worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom pricing, custom monthly compute, dedicated infrastructure, gpu builds support. It costs On request against $20/month for Developer. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Depot expensive for a developer tools tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 3 developer tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $29/month; Depot starts at $20/month.
- Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Depot have a free tier: Swagger UI, Namespace, Bazel, Blacksmith, Earthly.
- What am I actually paying for with Depot?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: core. In practice it is brought in for accelerating docker builds for container-based development, replacing github actions runners with faster infrastructure, distributing cache across monorepo builds.
- Does Depot charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Depot 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 Depot against before paying?
- The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Swagger UI, Namespace, Bazel, Blacksmith. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Depot covering price, platforms and features.