How much does Encore cost?

Encore publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Starter up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Starter and Pro on Encore?

Pro costs $49/month against Free, and adds unlimited free dev environments, 20m tracing events/month, 30-day log retention, 2 concurrent builds.

Is the Enterprise plan on Encore worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is enterprise security and compliance, sso/saml, custom rbac, soc 2 assistance. It costs On request against $49/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which cloud tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Encore have a free tier: Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux, Kustomize.

What am I actually paying for with Encore?

The record lists 6 features across 5 areas: development, deployment, infrastructure, operations, observability. In practice it is brought in for building microservices with database provisioning, creating feature branch preview environments, deploying typescript and go backends to aws/gcp.

Does Encore 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 Encore 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 Encore against before paying?

The closest cloud tools in this directory are Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Encore covering price, platforms and features.

Cloud · pricing

Encore pricing

Encore 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 $49/month
Model: Not recorded
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Encore 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.

Encore pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Starter	Free	5	Entry tier
Pro	$49/month	7	+$49/month, 7 more features
Enterprise	On request	5	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.

Starter

Free

The entry tier. It covers 2 free dev environments, 1m distributed tracing events/month, 7-day log retention, 1 concurrent build, community discord support.

Pro

$49/month

Over Starter, this tier adds:

Unlimited free dev environments
20M tracing events/month
30-day log retention
2 concurrent builds
Custom domains and preview environments
AWS/GCP deployment
Email and Slack support

Enterprise

On request

Over Pro, this tier adds:

Enterprise security and compliance
SSO/SAML
Custom RBAC
SOC 2 assistance
Dedicated Technical Account Manager

Where Encore stops being free

Starter, Free

2 free dev environments
1M distributed tracing events/month
7-day log retention
1 concurrent build
Community Discord support

Pro, $49/month

The first thing you pay for:

Unlimited free dev environments
20M tracing events/month
30-day log retention
2 concurrent builds
Custom domains and preview environments
AWS/GCP deployment
Email and Slack support

What the product covers

The full Encore 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.

Development

Local development environment

Deployment

Preview environments

Infrastructure

Infrastructure automation
Cloud deployment

Operations

Self-service operations

Observability

Distributed tracing

People bring Encore in for building microservices with database provisioning, creating feature branch preview environments, deploying typescript and go backends to aws/gcp. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Encore 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.

Encore entry price against other Cloud tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Encore (this page)	Free, then $49/month	-	-
Zipkin	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Encore
HAProxy	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Encore
Thanos	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Encore
Flux	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Encore
Kustomize	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Encore
VictoriaMetrics	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Encore

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 Encore badges page.

Before you pay for Encore

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 Free 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.

Encore runs on web, cli, and is published by Encore. The full record is on the Encore review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.

Encore pricing on the vendor's own site

Encore pricing questions

How much does Encore cost?: Encore publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Starter up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Encore have a free plan?: Yes. The Starter tier costs nothing and covers 2 free dev environments, 1m distributed tracing events/month, 7-day log retention. Paying starts at $49/month for Pro.
What is the difference between Starter and Pro on Encore?: Pro costs $49/month against Free, and adds unlimited free dev environments, 20m tracing events/month, 30-day log retention, 2 concurrent builds.
Is the Enterprise plan on Encore worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is enterprise security and compliance, sso/saml, custom rbac, soc 2 assistance. It costs On request against $49/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which cloud tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Encore have a free tier: Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux, Kustomize.
What am I actually paying for with Encore?: The record lists 6 features across 5 areas: development, deployment, infrastructure, operations, observability. In practice it is brought in for building microservices with database provisioning, creating feature branch preview environments, deploying typescript and go backends to aws/gcp.
Does Encore 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 Encore 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 Encore against before paying?: The closest cloud tools in this directory are Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Encore covering price, platforms and features.