What is changing
Cloudfleet now has three plans: Basic, Pro, and Enterprise. Each plan is a flat monthly base fee that includes a set number of vCPUs, plus a per-vCPU fee for any usage above what is included in the base fee.
| Basic | Pro | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base fee | €12/month | €69/month | from €499/month |
| Included vCPUs | 8 | 24 | 96 |
| Per additional vCPU | €2.45 | €4.95 | €7.25 |
There are no cluster size limits on any plan. Enterprise is now a full tier rather than the old Enterprise Support add-on, with compliance reports and audit support, a custom SLA, and a named technical account manager.
Every new account starts with €200 in credit, valid for 30 days and applied to your entire bill. You can run a real cluster, evaluate the platform, and only start paying once the credit is used or expires.
What this means for existing customers
If you are on the Pro tier, nothing changes and your pricing stays the same. Enterprise agreements will be moved to the new tiers individually, and some customers will see their bill decrease.
The biggest changes are on Basic. We are retiring the permanently free tier, and Basic clusters no longer hibernate, so every cluster now runs its control plane continuously. To ease the transition, existing Basic clusters receive a one-time €200 credit, applied automatically and valid for 60 days, twice the standard 30-day window, so no real charge lands until it is used or expires. Before any billing starts, we will ask you to confirm that you want to continue on the paid Basic plan, and we will not charge you without that confirmation. If you choose not to continue, your clusters keep running until the credit runs out and are then suspended rather than billed, with reminders before anything is removed and the option to change your mind at any time. We are grateful for the hundreds of homelab, test, and hobby projects running on Cloudfleet, and we chose the 8 vCPUs included in Basic with exactly these in mind: our own data and conversations with customers show the typical hobbyist cluster fits entirely inside the base fee, so most people in this segment pay €12 and nothing more. Larger Basic clusters, especially those running production workloads, can now scale beyond the old 24-vCPU cap and keep benefiting from CFKE at a price point well below the Pro tier.
The new pricing takes effect on July 15, 2026.
We understand that a pricing change can be disruptive. If you need any help adapting your setup, please reach out to support.
Why we are making these changes
Cloudfleet has been operating for more than three years, running hundreds of clusters and orchestrating infrastructure at scale across clouds and on-premises environments. These deployments range from small startups to critical enterprise workloads, and from the start our goal has been to give everyone easy access to Kubernetes on whatever infrastructure is available to them.
That is why, from day one, we offered a free, unlimited Basic tier aimed at simple and non-critical workloads. Free managed Kubernetes was rare among providers that do not subsidize the control plane with higher margins on compute products. We made it work through a leaner control plane and highly efficient operations.
What we underestimated was how the free tier would be used. In practice, many people run real production workloads on it, and they are right to expect the high availability and dependability of a paid product: dependability counts for far more than the fact that it is free. Delivering that is exactly what we want, so we kept investing in redundancy on the Basic control plane to meet that bar. That investment raised the cost to operate it, especially as compute and energy prices rose sharply in Europe and worldwide.
At the same time, another segment of customers was caught between tiers. They had grown past the free-tier limit but did not yet need full high availability, and were not ready to move to the higher-cost Pro tier.
By making this change, we are aligning our tiers and their value with what customers actually need. Even at today’s infrastructure prices, Cloudfleet remains a cheaper alternative to build-your-own clusters and offers the lowest total cost of ownership for hybrid Kubernetes on the market.
Thank you to everyone who has built on Cloudfleet so far. These changes put the platform on firmer footing so we can keep giving you easy, affordable access to Kubernetes as you grow, from your first cluster to production and beyond.
See the pricing page for full details.
