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Garden pricing
Garden publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, Garden pricing is free across 2 published tiers. 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
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Garden 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden open source | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Commercial tier | On request | 4 | 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.
Garden open source
FreeThe entry tier. It covers apache 2.0 licensed cli, full action graph and caching, self-managed clusters, community support via github and discord.
Commercial tier
On requestOver Garden open source, this tier adds:
- Hosted caching and team features
- Support and onboarding
- Pricing no longer published since the Incredibuild acquisition
- Contact Incredibuild for a quote
Where Garden stops being free
Garden open source, Free
- Apache 2.0 licensed CLI
- Full action graph and caching
- Self-managed clusters
- Community support via GitHub and Discord
No paid tier on record
Garden lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Garden 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
- Action graph
- Shared result caching
- Remote Kubernetes environments
- In-cluster builds
- Same config everywhere
- Hot reload sync
- Helm and Kustomize support
- Templating
People bring Garden in for a platform team whose integration test suite takes longer than the coffee break and needs caching to cut the loop, an organisation with thirty or more services on kubernetes where docker-compose no longer approximates production, giving every developer an ephemeral namespace instead of queuing for one shared staging environment, running the identical build and test definition locally and in ci so failures reproduce on a laptop. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Garden are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Developer Tools
Too few developer tools 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garden (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Tilt | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Garden |
| Hookdeck | Free, then $39/month | Per month by delivered event count | - | vs Garden |
| Jitsu | Free, then $99/month | Per month by event volume | - | vs Garden |
| Ona (formerly Gitpod) | Free, then $20/month | Per month by compute unit | - | vs Garden |
| Restate | Free, then $300/month | Per month by durable action count | - | vs Garden |
| Cloud Native Buildpacks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Garden |
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 Garden badges page.
Before you pay for Garden
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: 2 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.
Garden runs on linux, macos, windows, kubernetes, and is published by Incredibuild (Garden Technologies) of Tel Aviv, Israel. The full record is on the Garden review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.
Garden pricing questions
- How much does Garden cost?
- Garden publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Garden open source up to On request for Commercial tier. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Garden have a free plan?
- Yes. The Garden open source tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licensed cli, full action graph and caching, self-managed clusters.
- What is the difference between Garden open source and Commercial tier on Garden?
- Commercial tier costs On request against Free, and adds hosted caching and team features, support and onboarding, pricing no longer published since the incredibuild acquisition, contact incredibuild for a quote.
- Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Garden have a free tier: Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod), Restate.
- What am I actually paying for with Garden?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a platform team whose integration test suite takes longer than the coffee break and needs caching to cut the loop, an organisation with thirty or more services on kubernetes where docker-compose no longer approximates production, giving every developer an ephemeral namespace instead of queuing for one shared staging environment.
- Does Garden charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Garden 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 Garden against before paying?
- The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Garden covering price, platforms and features.