Free
$0
- 2 environments, manual promote + health gate, rollback included
- SSO/OIDC, RBAC, encrypted secrets
- Update/CVE detection
- 1 GitOps repo, manual sync
- 7-day audit/metrics retention
- Community support
Pricing
About a third of Portainer, at every fleet size.
You pay for the fleet you run, not the fleet you guessed. Overage bills in arrears, so scaling down shrinks next month's invoice automatically. We're pre-beta, so nothing below is purchasable yet. Joining the waitlist is how you lock in the founding price once it opens.
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Billing lapses never take down a workload. A billing hiccup only pauses new host enrollments. Anything already running keeps running.
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Expiry never stops your containers. License keys are offline-verified, no kill switch. Lapsed billing blocks new actions only, never a running workload.
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Founding price lock. Founding customers keep their price for life on their tier. Features already sold are never taken away.
The ladder
Annual billing only at launch (monthly comes later, at roughly +20%). SSO/OIDC, RBAC, encrypted secrets, health-gated promote, and rollback are free on every tier, because that's safety, not a feature we'd hold hostage. Paid tiers buy automation, scale, retention, and compliance.
Founding Lifetime available
Solo
$99/yr
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Auto-promote policies
- Safe auto-updates (canary + auto-rollback)
- Alert integrations
- Unlimited fleet cron
- 30-day retention
Founding window: Lifetime for $249 one-time. Covers perpetual Solo-tier use, all future updates, and security patches, unconditionally. Offline-verified against an Ed25519 key, no revalidation call, no kill switch. Capped at roughly the first 1,000 licenses.
Team
$399/yr
- Everything in Solo, plus:
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited environments, approvals, per-env RBAC, preview envs
- Vulnerability policy gates
- Multi-repo GitOps + drift detection
- Volume backups, 90-day retention
- Email support
Enterprise
from $6k/yr
- Everything in Team, plus the compliance pack:
- Exec session recording
- Audit/SIEM streaming, custom retention
- SCIM, air-gap install, BYO-KMS
- HA control plane
- SLA support
We never force Enterprise by node count. Team scales to any fleet size; Enterprise is bought for its features, not to get around a cap.
What would Team cost your fleet?
Team includes 15 nodes in the $399 base. Every node past that is priced on a graduated (tax-bracket) meter, where only the nodes in a bracket pay that bracket's rate. Adding one host never reprices your whole fleet.
Annual total
$1,029
Monthly equivalent
$86
Effective per node/mo
$1.72
15 included in the $399 base, plus 35 nodes at $18/node/yr.
| Nodes | Marginal $/node/yr | Shown as |
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| 1–15 | included in $399 | — |
| 16–50 | $18 | $1.50/mo |
| 51–100 | $15 | $1.25/mo |
| 101+ | $12 | $1.00/mo |
Effective per-node cost declines as you grow: about $26.60/node at 25 nodes, about $14.90/node at 200. Base is prepaid annually; overage bills monthly in arrears, prorated by node-days. A host run for a week costs a week, not a month.
How we compare
Hobby PaaS tools beat us on raw price at tiny scale. Portainer beats us on maturity. What Comebye brings instead: RBAC and audit on the free tier, no node cap that forces an upgrade, and a bill that shrinks the month you scale down.
| Comebye Team | Portainer BE Starter | Portainer BE Scale | Hobby PaaS (Coolify/Dokploy) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price at 15 nodes | $399/yr | $1,188/yr ($99/mo) | — | ~$60–75/yr |
| Price at 35 nodes | $759/yr | over cap | $2,388/yr ($199/mo) | ~$140–190/yr |
| Node cap per tier | none (meter scales) | 15 | 35 | varies, informal |
| Scale-down billing | automatic, arrears | manual downgrade | manual downgrade | varies |
| Source availability | FSL → Apache-2.0 in 2 yrs | proprietary | proprietary | mostly open-source |
| RBAC + audit on free tier | yes | no | no | rarely |
| Where they win | — | maturity, plugin ecosystem | maturity, plugin ecosystem | lower absolute price at tiny scale |
Portainer figures are public list prices as of this writing; verify against portainer.io/pricing before quoting them anywhere that matters. Running one hobby-scale server for life? A $5/mo tool is the right call, not us. For longer write-ups, including where each competitor wins, see all comparisons.
Before you ask
- Is any of this live yet?
- No. Comebye is pre-beta, so this page describes the pricing we're building toward, not a checkout you can use today. Join the waitlist to hear when billing opens and to lock in the founding price.
- What happens if I don't pay on time?
- Nothing running stops. A billing lapse blocks new host enrollments after a 30-day grace window, but workloads already deployed keep running regardless of license state. License keys verify offline with no kill switch, so it's not a promise we could break even if we wanted to.
- Can prices go up on me later?
- Not on a tier you've already bought. Founding customers keep their price for life on that tier, and features already sold are never removed. Public list prices may change for new customers; yours won't, retroactively.
- Why nodes and not seats?
- Nodes are what actually costs us, and you, money and risk. Metering seats taxes collaboration, which is the opposite of what a fleet tool should encourage. That's also why Solo is a personal, single-admin license instead of a seat-metered one.
Lock in the founding price
We'll email founding-window pricing to the waitlist before it's public anywhere else.
Join the waitlist