Cloud & Infrastructure · pricing
Vagrant pricing
Vagrant publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cloud & infrastructure tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Vagrant 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 Vagrant stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Development environment provisioning
- Multiple providers
- Provisioner support
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Vagrant lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Vagrant 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
- Box management
- Provider support
- Multi-machine setups
- Provisioners
- Networking
- Synced folders
- Snapshots
- Plugins
Integrations
- VirtualBox
- VMware
- Docker
- AWS
- Hyper-V
- Ansible
Security
- Isolated environments
Deployment
- Local deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
People bring Vagrant in for reproducible local development environments defined in a vagrantfile, provisioning identical vms across virtualbox, vmware and hyper-v for a team, sandboxing multi-machine setups on a developer laptop. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Vagrant are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud & Infrastructure
Too few cloud & infrastructure 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vagrant (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| DigitalOcean | Free, then $4/month | usage-based | - | vs Vagrant |
| Chef | Free | open-source | - | vs Vagrant |
| Alibaba Cloud | Free | usage-based | - | vs Vagrant |
| Lambda (AWS Serverless) | Free | usage-based | - | vs Vagrant |
| Contabo | €4.5/month | - | - | vs Vagrant |
| Akamai | $1000/month | quote | - | vs Vagrant |
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 Vagrant badges page.
Before you pay for Vagrant
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.
Vagrant runs on linux, windows, mac, and is published by HashiCorp of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Vagrant review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud & infrastructure tools.
Vagrant pricing questions
- How much does Vagrant cost?
- Vagrant publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does Vagrant have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers development environment provisioning, multiple providers, provisioner support.
- Which cloud & infrastructure tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud & infrastructure tools listed alongside Vagrant have a free tier: DigitalOcean, Chef, Alibaba Cloud, Lambda (AWS Serverless), AWS (Amazon Web Services).
- What am I actually paying for with Vagrant?
- The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for reproducible local development environments defined in a vagrantfile, provisioning identical vms across virtualbox, vmware and hyper-v for a team, sandboxing multi-machine setups on a developer laptop.
- Does Vagrant 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 Vagrant 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 Vagrant against before paying?
- The closest cloud & infrastructure tools in this directory are DigitalOcean, Chef, Alibaba Cloud, Lambda (AWS Serverless). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Vagrant covering price, platforms and features.