Simple pricing. Sovereign economics.
One flat platform price. Usage above your allocation at measured cost plus 35 percent — published, not discovered on an invoice. And you can always self-host kilter or move to another Miniscaler, which is exactly why we can't afford to get greedy.
Community
Maintaining a real open-source project, or teaching the community? Likeable's stack — with double the free-tier apps — free for you.
- 1 admin account
- 1 full production app
- 2 production-lite apps — always-on, no spin-down
- 10 free-tier apps — resource-limited, scale-to-zero when idle (KEDA)
- Ephemeral PR environments — full resources for 4h, then scale-to-zero, reaped at 48h
Tell us what you're building — we approve most genuine applications.
Likeable
Like Lovable, Figma Make, or v0 — but with real agentic infrastructure underneath. For builders shipping a product, not yet running an org.
- 1 admin account
- 1 full production app
- 2 production-lite apps — always-on, no spin-down
- 5 free-tier apps — resource-limited, scale-to-zero when idle (KEDA)
- Ephemeral PR environments — full resources for 4h, then scale-to-zero, reaped at 48h
Above these allocations: measured cost + 35%. Rates below.
k8gentic Engineering
Everything an engineering organization up to ~30 people needs to build and run agentic applications on sovereign infrastructure.
- 1 admin account
- 1 full production app
- 4 production-lite apps — always-on, no spin-down
- 15 free-tier apps — resource-limited, scale-to-zero when idle (KEDA)
- Ephemeral PR environments — full resources for 4h, then scale-to-zero, reaped at 48h
- Single sign-on (SSO)
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Policy management — guardrails on what apps and agents can do
- Security — per-app isolation via Kubernetes namespaces, network policy, and managed secrets
Above these allocations: measured cost + 35%. Rates below.
Agentic Enterprise
To deploy agentic workflows, agents, and applications safely across your organization, book a call with our Enterprise Solutions team.
- Everything in k8gentic Engineering
- Org-wide agent governance and guardrails
- Kilter Business Portal enterprise tiers
- Dedicated Enterprise Solutions team
- Deployment options: hosted, self-hosted, or any Miniscaler
For organizations beyond ~30 people, or regulated environments.
Agentic Business Operations
with the Kilter Business Portal
The business-user layer — per-seat licensing for security, business users, and business-team builders who operate agentic workflows, approve agent actions, and see what's running. Your engineering org carries no seat charge below 30 users; beyond that, additional engineers license as business seats from $5.
Enterprise tiers up to $20/user/month
- A dashboard where business users reach their applications in a portal-friendly way
- Single sign-on across every agentic-layer app
- Secure, controlled deployment of business-user-created apps
- Data access contracts tied to role-based access control (RBAC)
- Application classification for agentic GRC
Airbender
Agentic Performance Management
Get unreliable agents reliably into production. Runtime guardrails, mitigations, and compliance controls at the application and workflow layer — so your agents don't have to be always right to be safe.
Transparent and fair pricing
Everything above your included allocation is billed at measured cost + 35% — across the board. Compute, memory, storage, egress: same rule, no category games, no bundle mysteries. The 35 percent is our whole margin, and the rates are published where you can see them, not discovered on an invoice.
Why can you trust that? Because kilter is open source and portable. If we ever got greedy, you'd self-host, or take your apps to another Miniscaler running the same stack. That isn't a bug in our business model — it's the enforcement mechanism.
| Resource | Unit | Measured cost | You pay (+35%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| vCPU | per vCPU-hour | $0.012 | $0.016 |
| Memory | per GB-hour | $0.005 | $0.007 |
| Storage | per GB-month | $0.08 | $0.11 |
| Egress | per GB | $0.01 | $0.014 |
Illustrative — your live, binding rate card is always in your portal before anything is billed.
Where the money actually goes
How the pricing models compare — these characterize each category's structure, not any vendor's quote.
| Dimension | Paddington k8gentic | PaaSVercel · Netlify · Heroku · Railway · Render · Fly.io | BaaSSupabase · Firebase | HyperscalersAWS · Azure · GCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat $20–$100/mo per org (free for OSS & educators) | Per-seat + usage | Usage tiers per project | Pure usage, per service |
| Per-seat engineering charges | None below 30 users — business seats from $5/user | $20+/seat typical | Per-project member tiers | IAM free, everything else metered |
| Overage pricing | Measured cost + 35%, published | Marked-up bundles, opaque | Metered with markup | List price, notoriously complex |
| Scale-to-zero included | Yes — 15 free-tier apps sleep when idle | Serverless paths only | Pauses free projects | DIY |
| PR / preview environments | Included, auto-reaped at 48h | Included — but drives seat & usage cost | Branching billed extra | DIY |
| Included platform services | Postgres, auth, queues, observability — one price | À la carte add-ons | Core included, scale billed | Every service metered |
| Egress | Cost + 35% | Marked-up bandwidth | Metered | The famous egress bill |
| Exit & lock-in | Self-host kilter or move Miniscalers — same stack | Proprietary build & runtime | Proprietary APIs / partial exits | Gravity by design |
Questions, answered
What happens after the 7 days?
Your trial converts to the $100/month k8gentic Engineering plan — or it doesn't, and your environment winds down. No card is required to start, so nothing converts silently. We email you before the trial ends.
How is overage measured and billed?
Per-app resource consumption (CPU, memory, storage, egress) is metered on the platform and billed monthly at our measured cost plus 35%. The live rate card is always visible in your portal before anything is billed — you'll never discover a rate on an invoice.
What does "production-lite" mean?
An always-on app with modest resource allocations — it never sleeps, unlike free-tier apps, but it isn't sized for heavy production traffic. Perfect for internal tools, dashboards, and departmental apps that need to answer instantly.
Can I self-host instead?
Yes — that's the point. Kilter is open source and everything it provisions is standard Kubernetes. Self-host it, or run on any Miniscaler in the network. Our pricing has to stay honest because leaving is easy.
How are Kilter Business Portal seats counted?
Per active user per month, starting at $5/user — the business-user layer: security, business users, and business-team builders operating agentic workflows. Your engineering org carries no seat charge below 30 users; above that, additional engineers are licensed as business seats from $5. Enterprise tiers (up to $20/user) add governance, audit, and SSO.
Seven days. Real Kubernetes. Your keys.
Start the trial, deploy an app in your first five minutes, and see the whole platform before you pay a dollar.