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Puppet pricing
Puppet 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.
As of 30 August 2026, Puppet pricing is free across 4 published tiers. 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
- Quote
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Puppet 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 | 1 | Entry tier |
| Core Commercial | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
| Enterprise | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
| Advanced | On request | 4 | 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 up to 25 nodes.
Core Commercial
On requestOver Developer, this tier adds:
- 25+ nodes
- Vendor-backed SLAs
- Training with Certified Engineers
Enterprise
On requestOver Core Commercial, this tier adds:
- Web GUI
- RBAC
- Multi-environment support
- Infrastructure at scale
Advanced
On requestOver Enterprise, this tier adds:
- AI-powered features
- Advanced patching
- Vulnerability remediation
- Priority support
Where Puppet stops being free
Developer, Free
- Up to 25 nodes
No paid tier on record
Puppet lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Puppet 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
- Manifests
- Modules
- Classes
- Variables
- Facts
- Puppet Master
- Hiera
- Facter
Integrations
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Security
- SSL/TLS
- Authentication
Deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Api support
People bring Puppet in for infrastructure automation, configuration management, devops at scale, enterprise infrastructure. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Puppet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppet (this page) | Free | quote | - | |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Puppet |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Puppet |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Puppet |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Puppet |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs Puppet |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Puppet |
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 Puppet badges page.
Before you pay for Puppet
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.
Puppet runs on linux, windows, mac, api, and is published by Puppet of Portland, OR. The full record is on the Puppet review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Puppet pricing questions
- How much does Puppet cost?
- Puppet publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Developer up to On request for Advanced. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Puppet have a free plan?
- Yes. The Developer tier costs nothing and covers up to 25 nodes.
- What is the difference between Developer and Core Commercial on Puppet?
- Core Commercial costs On request against Free, and adds 25+ nodes, vendor-backed slas, training with certified engineers.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Puppet have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.
- What am I actually paying for with Puppet?
- The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for infrastructure automation, configuration management, devops at scale.
- Does Puppet 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 Puppet 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 Puppet against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Puppet covering price, platforms and features.