Built to pay for itself.
We absorb the low-level work that has teams fighting infrastructure instead of shipping.Predictable, transparent platform pricing, paid back in engineering hours.
We'll cover your first month to give you a chance to see the platform in action.
Lite
Essential orchestration for small teams and startups.
- Unlimited containers & VMs
- Live monitoring & log aggregation
- Run on any cloud, on-prem, or bare metal
Standard
The perfect foundation for growing companies, with room to grow.
Everything in Lite, plus:
- Infrastructure & application auto-scaling
- Dedicated Slack channel with our engineers
- External volumes via iSCSI, Ceph & more
Start on any tier, and upgrade as your demands grow.
Lite$500 | Standard$1,750 | Scale / EnterpriseContact Us | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | |||
| Servers | 5then $80/mo each | 25then $50/mo each | Custom |
| Seats | 5then $65/mo each | 10then $50/mo each | Custom |
| Environments | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Containers & VMs | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Orchestrate with MCP | Included | Included | Included |
| DNS | |||
| Hosted zones | 10then $0.25/mo each | 25then $0.25/mo each | Custom |
| Linked records | 100then $0.10/mo each | 500then $0.10/mo each | Custom |
| Geographic-aware DNS | Not available | Included | Included |
| Infrastructure | |||
| On-prem or cloud deployment | Included | Included | Included |
| Zero-downtime updates | Included | Included | Included |
| Single control plane | Included | Included | Included |
| Multi-provider accounts | Included | Included | Included |
| Monitoring | |||
| Orchestration | |||
| Automation | |||
| Protection | |||
| Storage | |||
| Compliance | |||
| Support | |||
We'll cover your first month.
Get into the weeds. The only way to know if a platform holds up under your actual workloads is to run your actual workloads. So we give you 30 days to see for yourself.
Your engineers get direct access to ours throughout. Whether that's walking through migration patterns, reviewing your architecture, or just mapping how the pieces fit together.
Private Slack Channel
A dedicated channel between your team and Cycle's engineers. Ask questions, share logs, and work through issues in real time.
Public Slack
Chat with the Cycle team and other users, follow announcements, and get quick answers.
Join SlackCycle Community
Searchable discussions, guides, and answers from people building on Cycle.
Visit the community
A direct line to our engineers.
Standard and Scale customers get their own Slack channel with the engineers who build Cycle, so questions get answered by people who can actually fix things. Lite teams get support through our community Slack, where anyone can meet other teams running Cycle, swap notes, and talk shop.
- Standard base (25 servers, 10 team members)
- $1,750
- 0 additional servers × $50/monthly
- $0
- 0 additional team members × $50/monthly
- $0
- Estimated monthly total
- $1,750 / mo
Scale on your terms.
Standard is built to grow with you. There are no hard caps on servers or team members. Need 50 extra nodes for a launch or a holiday traffic spike? Spin them up, run them as long as you need, and pay only for the hours they were running.
Overages bill by the hour, prorated. A node running for 6 hours costs you 6 hours, not a full month. If you reach a point where custom pricing fits better, Scale / Enterprise is there, but nothing on Standard forces the switch.
"Cycle was instrumental in our transition away from Kubernetes. Essentially, Cycle became our DevOps team, allowing us to focus on growth and delivery."
Frequently asked questions.
You pay a predictable monthly price for the tier that fits your team. Each tier includes a set number of seats, servers, and image storage.
A seat is one login. Anyone who signs into Cycle counts as a seat, whether it's a CTO, an engineer pushing code, or any other member of the team.
A server is any Virtual Machine or Bare Metal node that is actively connected to the Cycle control plane and running CycleOS. If you delete a node from your provider, it is instantly removed from your Cycle billing count.
As many as your underlying infrastructure can support. Cycle does not place a hard limit on container or VM count, only on the number of servers running them.
No. Cycle is an orchestration control plane, not a hosting provider. You bring your own infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Bare Metal) and pay them directly for compute and bandwidth. Cycle charges only for the platform itself, never for your compute or traffic.
Servers beyond your included allotment are billed hourly. Additional seats cost $65 per month on Lite and $50 per month on Standard.
Yes. You can change tiers with a single click from the billing portal. Changes take effect immediately and are prorated for the remainder of the month. Our team is available to help you pick the tier that fits.
Support is included on every Cycle plan. Lite teams get help through our community Slack, and Standard and Scale teams get a direct line to our engineers for day-to-day questions and incident response.
Yes. We accept all major credit cards, ACH transfers, and checks. We can work with you to establish a billing schedule that fits your finance team's process.
We provide proof-of-concept credits for teams evaluating Cycle. Longer-term discounts are available with an annual commitment. Contact our sales team for details.