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OpenEBS pricing
OpenEBS 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, OpenEBS 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
OpenEBS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenEBS | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where OpenEBS stops being free
OpenEBS, Free
- Apache 2.0 licensed
- All storage engines included
- No node or capacity limits
- Community support via Kubernetes Slack
- Commercial support available separately from DataCore
No paid tier on record
OpenEBS lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full OpenEBS 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
- Replicated engine
- Local PV engines
- Kubernetes-native management
- Snapshots and clones
- No licence fee
- Hardware independence
People bring OpenEBS in for running cassandra or kafka on kubernetes where the application already replicates and node-local volumes are sufficient, a platform team that needs persistent volumes on bare metal kubernetes without a per node subscription, an edge or lab deployment where a commercial storage licence cannot be justified, replacing hostpath volumes with something that has snapshots and a container storage interface driver. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to OpenEBS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenEBS (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs OpenEBS |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs OpenEBS |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs OpenEBS |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs OpenEBS |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs OpenEBS |
| Coolify | Free, then $5/month | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs OpenEBS |
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 OpenEBS badges page.
Before you pay for OpenEBS
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.
OpenEBS runs on linux, and is published by OpenEBS, a CNCF project of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the OpenEBS review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
OpenEBS pricing questions
- How much does OpenEBS cost?
- OpenEBS publishes a single tier, OpenEBS, at Free.
- Does OpenEBS have a free plan?
- Yes. The OpenEBS tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licensed, all storage engines included, no node or capacity limits.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside OpenEBS have a free tier: Rook, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify, Infracost.
- What am I actually paying for with OpenEBS?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for running cassandra or kafka on kubernetes where the application already replicates and node-local volumes are sufficient, a platform team that needs persistent volumes on bare metal kubernetes without a per node subscription, an edge or lab deployment where a commercial storage licence cannot be justified.
- Does OpenEBS 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 OpenEBS 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 OpenEBS against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, Portworx, Longhorn, Qovery. Each has a side-by-side comparison with OpenEBS covering price, platforms and features.