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.
Plan comparison
Free
Enough to try your first business tool. €0 per workspace and month. Your trial machine is on us. For running apps; the AI allowance is separate. AI help included, with an allowance. Enough for about 1,000 everyday AI tasks per month (estimate). We email you a forecast at 80% of your AI allowance. At the allowance, you get a friendly upgrade message; nothing is charged automatically. Trial hosting pauses after 7 days. We keep your data for 90 days; upgrade to Pro to resume.Pro
Enough for the everyday tools of a small business. €20 per workspace and month. Machines billed per machine, price shown before ordering. Machine charges are separate from the platform subscription and AI allowance. AI help included, with extra room at our cost. Enough for about 5,000 everyday AI tasks per month (estimate). We email you a forecast at 80% of your AI allowance. Your work keeps going up to 2x the allowance at no extra charge, and our team is alerted when you reach the included allowance. Your apps keep running while the plan is active.Enterprise
Capacity planned around your company. Custom Managed compute capacity by agreement. For running apps; the AI allowance is separate. AI allowance by agreement. We agree your capacity and AI allowance with you. Hosting terms by agreement.Compare exact capacity and AI allowances
Compare exact capacity and AI allowances
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. Trial hosting: the trial machine runs for days, then pauses. See the trial recovery policy for retention and resuming on Pro. You’ll receive notifications before it pauses. The trial does not renew. To keep running Akua-managed compute after your trial, bring your own cloud key or upgrade to Pro. Other usage meters have their own reset schedules; they are separate from the one-time machine trial. Read your current allowances from Quotas.Pro tier
Pro has no trial expiry. Managed machines are billed separately while they run, with the price shown before ordering. Its compute limits are safety ceilings. The policy beside the plans explains the separate AI allowance and included extra room.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 →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.
Increasing your 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.
Related topics
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.