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Namespace pricing
Namespace publishes 4 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 $100/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Namespace 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 | Free | 7 | Entry tier |
| Team | $100/month | 5 | +$100/month, 5 more features |
| Business | $250/month | 5 | +$150/month, 5 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 6 | 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
FreeThe entry tier. It covers pay-as-you-go, on-demand compute, docker builds, devboxes, managed github runners, cross-invocation caching.
Team
$100/monthOver Developer, this tier adds:
- 100,000 unit minutes
- 1,000 Docker builds
- Everything in Developer
- Increased concurrency
- Email support
Business
$250/monthOver Team, this tier adds:
- 250,000 unit minutes
- 2,500 Docker builds
- Everything in Team
- High concurrency for very large jobs
- Dedicated Slack channel
Enterprise
On requestOver Business, this tier adds:
- Custom compute/Docker build limits
- Audit log export
- Enterprise SSO
- Custom log and metric sinks
- Very high build concurrency
- Volume discounting available
Where Namespace stops being free
Developer, Free
- Pay-as-you-go
- On-demand compute
- Docker builds
- Devboxes
- Managed GitHub runners
- Cross-invocation caching
- 30-day free trial
Team, $100/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 100,000 unit minutes
- 1,000 Docker builds
- Everything in Developer
- Increased concurrency
- Email support
What the product covers
The full Namespace 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
- Devboxes
- GitHub Actions runners
- Docker builds
- Cross-invocation caching
- NVMe storage
- High-speed networking
- Multiple OS support
- Bazel and Turborepo support
People bring Namespace in for providing ai coding agents with cloud-based development environments, accelerating ci builds with faster github actions runners, distributing builds across teams with managed infrastructure, scaling development velocity for monorepo organizations. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Namespace 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 $20/month. Namespace starts at $100/month, which puts it above the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Namespace (this page) | Free, then $100/month | - | - | |
| Swagger UI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Namespace |
| Bazel | Free | open-source | - | vs Namespace |
| Blacksmith | Free, then $0.004/minute | - | - | vs Namespace |
| Earthly | Free | No pricing published on website | - | vs Namespace |
| Depot | Free, then $20/month | - | - | vs Namespace |
| Nx Cloud | Free, then $29/month | credits-based | - | vs Namespace |
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 Namespace badges page.
Before you pay for Namespace
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: 4 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.
Namespace runs on cloud, mac, windows, linux, and is published by Namespace Labs. The full record is on the Namespace review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.
Namespace pricing questions
- How much does Namespace cost?
- Namespace publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Developer up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Namespace have a free plan?
- Yes. The Developer tier costs nothing and covers pay-as-you-go, on-demand compute, docker builds. Paying starts at $100/month for Team.
- What is the difference between Developer and Team on Namespace?
- Team costs $100/month against Free, and adds 100,000 unit minutes, 1,000 docker builds, everything in developer, increased concurrency.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Namespace worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom compute/docker build limits, audit log export, enterprise sso, custom log and metric sinks. It costs On request against $100/month for Team. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Namespace expensive for a developer tools tool?
- It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 3 developer tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $20/month; Namespace starts at $100/month.
- Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Namespace have a free tier: Swagger UI, Bazel, Blacksmith, Earthly, Depot.
- What am I actually paying for with Namespace?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: core. In practice it is brought in for providing ai coding agents with cloud-based development environments, accelerating ci builds with faster github actions runners, distributing builds across teams with managed infrastructure.
- Does Namespace charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Namespace 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 Namespace against before paying?
- The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Swagger UI, Bazel, Blacksmith, Earthly. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Namespace covering price, platforms and features.