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.
One metric — nodes. 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: nothing below is purchasable yet, and joining the waitlist is how you lock in the founding price when it opens.
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The 2 AM rule. A billing hiccup pauses new host enrollments — never a workload that's already 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%). Safety — SSO/OIDC, RBAC, encrypted secrets, health-gated promote, rollback — is free on every tier. 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 — perpetual Solo-tier use, all future updates, security patches unconditionally. Offline Ed25519-verified, no online revalidation, no kill switch — the guarantee is the absence of the mechanism. 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.
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 — only the nodes in a bracket pay that bracket's rate, so there's no cliff where adding one host 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 — from about $26.60/node at 25 nodes down to 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.
Honest comparison
We're not the cheapest option in every category — hobby PaaS tools undercut us on price alone. Here's where Comebye sits and why.
| Comebye Team | Portainer BE Starter | Portainer BE Scale | Hobby PaaS (Coolify/Dokploy) | |
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| 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. If a hobby-scale single server is all you'll ever run, a $5/mo tool is a reasonable choice and we'd rather say so than pretend otherwise. Full write-ups, including where each competitor wins: see all comparisons.
Before you ask
- Is any of this live yet?
- No — Comebye is pre-beta. 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; workloads already deployed keep running regardless of license state. This is a product-design commitment, not a promise we could technically break — offline-verified license keys have no kill switch.
- 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 the thing that actually costs us — and you — money and risk. Metering seats taxes collaboration, which is the opposite of what a fleet tool should encourage. Solo is a personal, single-admin license rather than a seat-metered one for the same reason.
Lock in the founding price
We'll email founding-window pricing to the waitlist before it's public anywhere else.
Join the waitlist