Pricing in detail
All the pricing, no fine print.
KubeBolt Cloud plans, usage units and the AI credit model. We bill for infrastructure, not people.
Launch During launch only the plan fee is billed: overage on nodes, pods and series is metered, not billed; AI credits pause when the month's allowance runs out. Details in the FAQ
Launch offer +200 AI credits/mo for the first 10 signups Claim credits
| Plan comparison | Free Free $0 €0 /mo | Team Recommended $49 €45 /mo | Business Coming soon $99 €92 /mo indicative window Q4 2026 · roadmap | Enterprise Contract Custom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Included limits | ||||
| Clusters | 2 | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Nodes / pods | 10 / 150 | usage-based | usage-based | negotiated |
| Pods included per node | hard cap | 50 | 80 | 150 |
| Users | 3 (hard cap) | 15 (soft cap) | unlimited | unlimited |
| Retention | 15 days | 30 days | 90 days | 365 days |
| Active series included | 25,000 | 150,000 | 750,000 | 3,000,000 |
| AI credits / mo | 100 | 1,500 | 3,600 | 50,000 |
| Usage units Measured, not billed during launch. These are the prices that will apply once overage billing is switched on. | ||||
| Node-hour production | hard cap | $0.012 €0.011 | $0.018 €0.017 | negotiated |
| Node-hour non-production | hard cap | $0.003 €0.0028 | $0.004 €0.0037 | negotiated |
| Pod-hour above the included pods | hard cap | $0.0008 €0.00074 | $0.0006 €0.00056 | negotiated |
| Pod overage ceiling | - | 50% of the node charge | 50% of the node charge | 50% of the node charge |
| Extra series / 1K | hard cap | $4.00 €3.70 | $3.50 €3.25 | negotiated |
| Extra AI credit | hard cap | $0.03 €0.028 | $0.025 €0.023 | negotiated |
| Capabilities | ||||
| Team access | - | OAuth: Google, Microsoft, GitHub, GitLab | OAuth: Google, Microsoft, GitHub, GitLab | SSO/SAML + SCIM |
| Autopilot | Open beta | Open beta | Open beta | Open beta · full |
| Support | Community | Email 8×5 | Chat & email | 24×7 · dedicated CSM |
Calculator Your bill, all of it at once.
Nodes, pods, series and AI credits in one form and one total. No adding up separate calculators, and no asking you for a series count you don't have to hand. Run my own numbers Hide the calculator
Your bill, all of it at once.
Nodes, pods, series and AI credits in one form and one total. No adding up separate calculators, and no asking you for a series count you don't have to hand. Run my own numbers Hide the calculatorDuring launch the plan fee is billed and nothing else.
The day it switches on there will be notice and a grace period. Until then this is metered and never reaches your invoice.
| Line | Billable volume | Amount |
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An estimate, not a quote. Based on 720 hours a month. AI credits are the only approximate line: 50 to 100 per incident and 4 to 31 per conversation, measured in production. Everything else is deterministic.
AI credit model
You pay for the resolved incident, not the clock.
The credit is elastic: it measures real AI work. A full incident, from triage to postmortem, costs very little. The Insights Engine detectors are deterministic and consume no credits.
Elastic
The credit measures real compute. A short query costs little; an Autopilot incident, roughly 50 to 100 credits.
Predictable
Every plan includes credits, with a live meter of what's used. KubeBolt warns you in the product before the allowance runs out, and emails your organization's admins once a month — so whoever can actually do something about it finds out in time. Deterministic rules consume no credits.
Safe
The LLM diagnoses freely, but only applies actions from an audited catalog. It's not token savings: it's what makes it deployable in production.
The infrastructure differentiator
That was the AI line. This is the whole bill.
Your pods are already inside the node. That’s why it lands 42% lower.
Grafana Cloud bills four meters separately: host hours, container hours, active series and the per-user AI Assistant. Here's the same cluster on both, meter by meter: 20 production nodes, 5 non-production, 175 pods, 50,000 series and 12 SREs.
They meter compute twice, per node and per container. We meter it once: the node already carries 50 pods, so the fair comparison is the sum. On the bare node row they are cheaper, but summed their compute is $219 and ours is $184. From there the gap only widens, because your 50,000 series are already in the plan and their Assistant is billed per head.
Two of their four meters are zero on KubeBolt.
Comparison in USD · Grafana Cloud public list, August 2026
| Meter | KubeBolt | Grafana |
|---|---|---|
| Platform / plan | $49 | $19 |
| Nodes · 18,000 host hours | $184 | $158 |
| Pods · 126,000 container hours | inside the node | $62 |
| Compute subtotal | $184 | $219 |
| Active series · 50K | included | $195 |
| AI · Assistant / credits | $124 | $180 |
| Total per month | $356 · -42% | $613 |
The scale-up profile, the same one the calculator opens on: 20 production nodes, 5 non-production, 175 pods, 50,000 active series and 12 SREs. Compared against the Team plan because that is what you can buy today; the gap widens with scale, and the same exercise on a 120-node cluster lands at -52% on Business. The Grafana column comes from their own calculator (Cloud Pro, Aug 2026 list) with the 20% adaptive reduction applied to series and one container per pod. The two compute rows are the subtotal's breakdown, not separate line items. Both sides use the same 720 h/month base. The KubeBolt column comes from the same rate card as the calculator above, Team plan.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask before paying
01 Do you charge per active user?
No. KubeBolt bills for monitored infrastructure: nodes, series and AI credits. Free is capped at 3 users (hard cap) and Team at 15 (soft cap: if you exceed it we suggest a higher plan, it doesn't block); Business and Enterprise have no per-person cap.
02 What happens if I exceed my limits?
For nodes, pods and series, nothing: during launch that usage is metered but not billed. AI credits do have a ceiling: once they run out, the AI pauses until next month. When we switch on overage billing, extra credits will be invoiced like everything else — always with prior notice and a grace period. Free and Team are live today; Business comes later.
03 What does an AI credit include?
The credit measures real AI work, proportional to compute. As a rough reference, a full Autopilot incident tends to run around 50 to 100 credits, and a Copilot query, 4 to 31, median 10. These are estimates, not fixed figures.
04 Are prices in USD or EUR?
Both — use the selector above. Each plan and each usage unit has its own published amount in each currency, with no automatic conversion.
05 What is an active series?
A series with at least one sample in the last 15 minutes — a shorter window than Grafana Cloud's 20 minutes, so fewer of your series count as active. We read your cardinality every 5 minutes, keep each hour's high point, and bill the 95th percentile of those hourly readings across the month: a spike during a rollout doesn't set the price of your whole month.
06 Why is self-hosted Enterprise‑only?
The OSS (Apache 2.0) is available to everyone. The mid tiers live in Cloud because operating the infrastructure is part of the product. Self-Hosted Enterprise is for compliance that requires on-premise.
07 How are pods billed?
Every node carries included pods — 50 on Team, 80 on Business, 150 on Enterprise — pooled across the account, so a dense node is covered by an empty one. You only pay for pods above that pool, and that charge never exceeds 50% of what you pay for nodes, however dense your cluster gets. At the usual 10 to 25 pods per node you never reach it.
08 What's a node-hour? Does autoscaling help?
You're billed for each active node's real hours: a node that exists for 10 days of the month pays 10 days, not the whole month. Autoscaling and powering down environments out of hours cuts the bill directly, and a non-production node-hour costs considerably less than a production one.
09 Do unused credits roll over to the next month?
No — included credits reset monthly and don't roll over. That's why the plans carry generous bundles rather than selling you packs that expire. You can see live consumption inside the product, and we warn you before they run out.
10 What happens when the Free plan hits its cap?
Nothing is billed — it stops. At the series limit the agent stops sending, and once credits run out the AI stops answering until next month. On Free there's no overage to charge, so there's no surprise invoice either.
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