Pricing
kynetradb is Apache-2.0. The software is free. What you pay is your hosting bill.
A $5 Hetzner CX11, a DigitalOcean Droplet, or a Fly.io free tier machine. Your laptop works too. kynetradb is a single binary on 256 MB RAM.
- Full features, no usage limits
- Your hardware, your data
- docker compose up -d and done
- Attach a block volume for persistence
Platform-managed container with autoscaling, TLS, and deploy pipelines. You get the PaaS UX; kynetradb stays open-source.
- Fly.io (Machines + Volume) — ~$5–$15/mo
- Render (web service + disk) — ~$7–$25/mo
- Railway (Dockerfile + volume) — ~$5–$20/mo
- DigitalOcean App Platform — ~$12/mo
- Heroku (container stack) — ~$7–$25/mo
AWS App Runner, GCP Cloud Run, Azure Container Apps, and Kubernetes on EKS/GKE/AKS. kynetradb remains free; you pay your cloud bill.
- AWS App Runner — serverless container, pay-per-request
- GCP Cloud Run — per-invocation billing, EFS/GCS for WAL
- Azure Container Apps — Bicep template with Azure Files volume
- Kubernetes — Helm chart with StatefulSet + PVC
Why is it free?
kynetradb is an infrastructure primitive, not a SaaS product. Open-source under Apache-2.0 means you can deploy it, fork it, embed it, and build products on top without license negotiation. There is no vendor lock-in because there is no vendor.
The source is at github.com/kynetra/kynetradb. Contributions welcome.
kynetra-as-a-service (roadmap)
The v0.10 roadmap includes a per-tenant hosting model — managed kynetradb instances with per-tenant auth scoping, a control-plane API, and usage-based billing. Until that ships, BYOH (bring your own host). All 18 deploy targets are documented and maintained.
If you need commercial support, SLAs, or enterprise onboarding before the hosted tier is ready, open an issue on GitHub and describe your use case.