Cybersecurity · pricing
Ory Kratos pricing
Ory Kratos publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cybersecurity tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source self-hosted, with a paid managed network
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Ory Kratos 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Ory Kratos stops being free
Self-hosted, Free
- Full identity server
- All flows
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Ory Kratos lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Ory Kratos 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
- Headless API
- Self-service flows
- Multi-factor authentication
- Pluggable identity schemas
People bring Ory Kratos in for products needing complete control over the look and flow of authentication, applications that must not hand user identity data to a third party, teams building identity as infrastructure across several services. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Ory Kratos are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cybersecurity
Too few cybersecurity 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ory Kratos (this page) | Free | Open-source self-hosted, with a paid managed network | - | |
| Authelia | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Ory Kratos |
| Grype | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Ory Kratos |
| authentik | Free | Open-source core with a paid enterprise tier | - | vs Ory Kratos |
| Trivy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Ory Kratos |
| Aikido | Free | Subscription with free tier | - | vs Ory Kratos |
| Chainguard | Free, then $19000/year | Licensing by artifact type and team size | - | vs Ory Kratos |
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 Ory Kratos badges page.
Before you pay for Ory Kratos
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.
Ory Kratos runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, self-hosted, and is published by Ory of Munich, Germany. The full record is on the Ory Kratos review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.
Ory Kratos pricing questions
- How much does Ory Kratos cost?
- Ory Kratos publishes a single tier, Self-hosted, at Free.
- Does Ory Kratos have a free plan?
- Yes. The Self-hosted tier costs nothing and covers full identity server, all flows, community support.
- Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Ory Kratos have a free tier: Authelia, Grype, authentik, Trivy, Aikido.
- What am I actually paying for with Ory Kratos?
- The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for products needing complete control over the look and flow of authentication, applications that must not hand user identity data to a third party, teams building identity as infrastructure across several services.
- Does Ory Kratos 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 Ory Kratos 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 Ory Kratos against before paying?
- The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Authelia, Grype, authentik, Trivy. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Ory Kratos covering price, platforms and features.