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Longhorn pricing
Longhorn publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cloud tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Longhorn 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, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Longhorn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longhorn | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Longhorn stops being free
Longhorn, Free
- Apache 2.0 licensed, no licence fee
- Community support via GitHub and Slack only
- No vendor SLA or escalation path
- Commercial support available separately through SUSE Rancher Prime
No paid tier on record
Longhorn lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Longhorn 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
- Per-volume controllers
- Synchronous replication
- Snapshots and backups
- Volume expansion
- Disaster recovery volumes
- Web interface
People bring Longhorn in for an on-premises kubernetes cluster with local disks and no san that needs replicated persistent volumes, edge sites where shipping a storage array is impractical and three nodes is the whole cluster, a k3s deployment where the storage layer must be light enough to run alongside the workloads, a team that wants snapshots and s3 backups of persistent volumes without paying per-node storage licences. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Longhorn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longhorn (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Longhorn |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Longhorn |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Longhorn |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs Longhorn |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Longhorn |
| Coolify | Free, then $5/month | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Longhorn |
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 Longhorn badges page.
Before you pay for Longhorn
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Longhorn runs on linux, kubernetes, and is published by Cloud Native Computing Foundation of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Longhorn review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Longhorn pricing questions
- How much does Longhorn cost?
- Longhorn publishes a single tier, Longhorn, at Free.
- Does Longhorn have a free plan?
- Yes. The Longhorn tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licensed, no licence fee, community support via github and slack only, no vendor sla or escalation path.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Longhorn have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Dokku, Coolify, Infracost.
- What am I actually paying for with Longhorn?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an on-premises kubernetes cluster with local disks and no san that needs replicated persistent volumes, edge sites where shipping a storage array is impractical and three nodes is the whole cluster, a k3s deployment where the storage layer must be light enough to run alongside the workloads.
- Does Longhorn charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Longhorn 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 Longhorn against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Qovery. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Longhorn covering price, platforms and features.