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etcd pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for etcd. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the technology tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, etcd 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
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The etcd catalogue entry carries no price and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the etcd review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full etcd 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
- Raft consensus
- Linearizable reads
- Transactions
- Leases
- Watches
- MVCC revision history
- Role-based access control
- Snapshot backup and restore
People bring etcd in for storing kubernetes cluster state, which is what the overwhelming majority of etcd deployments are doing, leader election and distributed locking in a home-grown scheduler or control plane, using leases and transactions, service discovery and dynamic configuration where readers need to be notified of changes rather than poll for them, coordinating failover in a clustered database, as patroni does for postgresql. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to etcd are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Technology
Too few technology 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.
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 etcd badges page.
Before you pay for etcd
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.
etcd runs on not recorded. The full record is on the etcd review, and the rest of the category is under best technology tools.
etcd pricing questions
- How much does etcd cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for etcd, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does etcd have a free plan?
- Yes, etcd is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- Which technology tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 technology tools listed alongside etcd have a free tier: Canny.
- What am I actually paying for with etcd?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for storing kubernetes cluster state, which is what the overwhelming majority of etcd deployments are doing, leader election and distributed locking in a home-grown scheduler or control plane, using leases and transactions, service discovery and dynamic configuration where readers need to be notified of changes rather than poll for them.
- Does etcd 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 etcd 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 etcd against before paying?
- The closest technology tools in this directory are Personetics, Zeta, Finxact, Thought Machine. Each has a side-by-side comparison with etcd covering price, platforms and features.