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Packer pricing
Packer publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Packer 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 Packer stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Multi-platform image building
- Template-driven
- Provisioner support
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Packer lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Packer 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
- Image building
- Multi-platform support
- Provisioners
- Builders
- Post-processors
- Variables
- Data sources
- Validation
Integrations
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Terraform
- Ansible
Security
- Encryption
- Access control
Deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
People bring Packer in for building identical machine images for multiple clouds from one template, baking golden amis and vm images into a ci pipeline, creating immutable infrastructure artifacts consumed by terraform. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Packer are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Packer
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.
Packer runs on linux, windows, mac, and is published by HashiCorp of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Packer review.
Packer pricing questions
- How much does Packer cost?
- Packer publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does Packer have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers multi-platform image building, template-driven, provisioner support.
- What am I actually paying for with Packer?
- The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for building identical machine images for multiple clouds from one template, baking golden amis and vm images into a ci pipeline, creating immutable infrastructure artifacts consumed by terraform.
- Does Packer 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 Packer 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 Packer against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Packer to make a useful price comparison.