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Rook pricing
Rook 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, Rook 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
Rook 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rook | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Rook stops being free
Rook, Free
- Apache 2.0 licensed, no licence fee
- Graduated CNCF project
- Community support via GitHub and Slack only
- Commercial support available indirectly via IBM Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation or third-party Ceph consultancies
No paid tier on record
Rook lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Rook 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
- Ceph operator
- Block, file and object
- Erasure coding
- CSI driver
- Automated upgrades
- Multi-cluster mirroring
People bring Rook in for an on-premises kubernetes platform needing block, shared filesystem and s3 storage without buying three products, a team that already runs ceph and wants its lifecycle managed declaratively inside kubernetes, a large cluster where three-way replication overhead is unaffordable and erasure coding is required, an organisation building a private cloud that cannot use managed cloud storage services for residency reasons. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Rook 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rook (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Rook |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Rook |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Rook |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs Rook |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Rook |
| Coolify | Free, then $5/month | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Rook |
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 Rook badges page.
Before you pay for Rook
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.
Rook runs on linux, kubernetes, and is published by Cloud Native Computing Foundation of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Rook review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Rook pricing questions
- How much does Rook cost?
- Rook publishes a single tier, Rook, at Free.
- Does Rook have a free plan?
- Yes. The Rook tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licensed, no licence fee, graduated cncf project, community support via github and slack only.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Rook have a free tier: OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify, Infracost.
- What am I actually paying for with Rook?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an on-premises kubernetes platform needing block, shared filesystem and s3 storage without buying three products, a team that already runs ceph and wants its lifecycle managed declaratively inside kubernetes, a large cluster where three-way replication overhead is unaffordable and erasure coding is required.
- Does Rook 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 Rook 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 Rook against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn, Qovery. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Rook covering price, platforms and features.