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Nomad pricing
Nomad 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 30 August 2026, Nomad 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
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Nomad 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Nomad stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Workload orchestration
- Multi-cloud
- Flexible scheduling
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Nomad lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Nomad 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
- Container orchestration
- Job scheduling
- Multi-cloud support
- Auto-scaling
- Service discovery
- Rolling deployments
- Monitoring integration
- High availability
Integrations
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Consul
- Vault
- Terraform
Security
- TLS
- ACL
- Encryption
Deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Hybrid deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Cloud support
People bring Nomad in for container and workload orchestration across infrastructure, multi-region application deployment, flexible scheduling for batch jobs and services. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Nomad 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nomad (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Nomad |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Nomad |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Nomad |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Nomad |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs Nomad |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Nomad |
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 Nomad badges page.
Before you pay for Nomad
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.
Nomad runs on linux, windows, mac, cloud, and is published by HashiCorp of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Nomad review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Nomad pricing questions
- How much does Nomad cost?
- Nomad publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does Nomad have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers workload orchestration, multi-cloud, flexible scheduling.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Nomad have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.
- What am I actually paying for with Nomad?
- The record lists 23 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for container and workload orchestration across infrastructure, multi-region application deployment, flexible scheduling for batch jobs and services.
- Does Nomad 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 Nomad 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 Nomad against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Nomad covering price, platforms and features.