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- Free allowance
- Starter, self-hosted on a Kubernetes cluster the user owns: free for up to 5 users, no credit card needed
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedenvironments run on a user's own Kubernetes infrastructure; the free plan does not supply compute
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | Starter, self-hosted on a Kubernetes cluster the user owns: free for up to 5 users, no credit card needed unit users; metered on identity-count; read from the vendor pricing page; the licence is free, the cluster is not |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) environments run on a user's own Kubernetes infrastructure; the free plan does not supply compute source
- request-rate resource limits, governance and observability are the plan's levers source
not stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not published: no egress allowance or overage price on https://www.okteto.com/pricing/ |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | cli Okteto CLI, a web dashboard, and an Okteto API (BETA, defined with OpenAPI) reached with an Admin Access Token |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Self-hosted: the pricing page says Okteto runs self-hosted on any Kubernetes cluster the user owns, and the free Starter plan is a self-hosted licence for up to 5 users. |
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| Evidence note | documented the site was read on 2026-10-22 and describes environments spun up on a user's own infrastructure, with a free signup. The compute is a user's cluster, so a free plan is a control plane rather than capacity |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 7
More fields 5
| keep rate basis | no field in the source |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "an environment is created per task and destroyed after; the page states no clock because a user's cluster sets it"} |
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| free tier kind | allowance |
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| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "a user's own cluster storage","durability": "a user's own volumes","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "as long as a user keeps it"} |
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Unknown values 8
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field