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Pricing as a fit decision: choose included capacity or bring your own cloud at direct provider cost, with the full platform included on every plan.Pricing as a fit decision: choose included capacity or bring your own cloud at direct provider cost, with the full platform included on every plan.
Akua offers a generous free tier and a Pro tier for larger workloads. Both tiers include the full platform with no feature gates. The free tier’s Akua-managed machine is a one-time trial, not a renewable monthly allowance; Pro’s included machines are an ongoing resource quota for as long as your subscription is active.
All plans include the full Akua platform: marketplace, products, private registries, custom dashboards, CLI, and API access. There are no feature gates; only resource limits and the one-time trial differ.

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Plan comparison

Pro tier limits represent what’s included in your subscription. Usage beyond the included amount is billed per resource. * Unlike every other row in this table, the free Akua-managed machine is not a renewable slot. See Free tier.

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Free tier

The free tier includes a managed cluster, the full platform, and one Akua-managed VM trial. That’s enough to run a small production app, sell through the marketplace, and serve real customers. No credit card required. The Akua-managed machine is a one-time trial, not a monthly allowance: each stable Akua account gets exactly one free Akua-managed VM, ever, across every workspace and organization it creates. This is a lifetime grant, not a per-workspace or per-billing-period reset. Machine lifetime: the trial machine runs for 7 days, then Akua deletes it automatically. You’ll receive notifications at 5 days, 2 days, and 24 hours before deletion. Seven days is how long that machine lives, not how often the trial renews.
Deleting the trial machine, its cluster, workspace, or organization releases the occupied slot but never restores the trial. There is no way to get a second free Akua-managed machine on the same account.
To keep running Akua-managed compute after your trial, bring your own cloud key or upgrade to Pro. Other free-usage meters (like the 10,000 daily code executions above) reset monthly on their own schedule; they are separate from the one-time machine trial.

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Pro tier

Pro includes more machines and higher resource limits, with no machine lifetime restriction and no one-time trial: paid Akua-managed capacity is an ongoing resource quota for as long as your subscription stays active, independent of whether you already used the free trial. Usage beyond the included limits is billed per resource.

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Bring your own cloud key

Connect your own cloud provider API key (for example, a Hetzner Cloud token) and compute quotas don’t apply. You pay the provider directly at their published rates; Akua manages the Kubernetes lifecycle with no markup on infrastructure costs. This works on every plan, including Free. Cluster quotas still apply since Akua manages the control plane regardless of where your workers run. Learn about adding workers →

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Workspace access states

Every workspace has an access state that reflects its subscription status: active, payment_grace, restricted, and so on. See workspace access states for the full table and what each state allows. Read the current state from the API at any time.

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Increasing your limits

View pricing

Compare plans and upgrade.

Contact sales

Request enterprise limits.

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API

Manage subscriptions and check access state programmatically.

Workspaces API

Subscription, access state, billing portal, and tier-change endpoints.

Entitlements API

Query active feature entitlements for a workspace.

Billing

Upgrade, cancel, and manage your subscription.

Quotas

Understand resource limits and check usage.

Offers

Prepare commercial product distribution with private offer links.

Add workers

Bypass compute quotas with your own cloud key.