Simple, Transparent Pricing
Pay only for what you use. No hidden fees, no surprise bills. Our pricing is based on real infrastructure costs.
Open Source Without the Markup
Our pricing philosophy is radically transparent: your cost is our cost plus a fair margin to pay our team, fund development, and build sustainable infrastructure.
📊 Cost-Based
Prices are derived from real market data for compute, memory, and storage. We don't invent margins.
🔍 Transparent
See exactly where your money goes. Every allocation serves a mission: supporting teams, funding R&D, and building cooperatively owned infrastructure.
🤝 Mission-Aligned
A portion of every payment supports open-source projects and cooperative infrastructure initiatives that advance community-owned technology.
Pay for What You Use
Your bill is calculated based on the actual resources your applications consume.
Compute
$0.05
per vCPU-Hour
Per virtual CPU core hour
Memory
$0.0363
per GB-Hour
Per GB of RAM per hour
Storage
$0.25
per GB-Month
Per GB of persistent storage
Real-World Pricing Examples
Small Team: 5 Users
Nextcloud Hub + NocoDB + Zulip
OpenPane
Pay for resources used
176 hours/month (8hrs/day, 5 days/week)
per month
✓ You own your data
SaaS Alternative
Per-user pricing
per month
✗ They own your data
Save $82/month • $984/year
Growing Organization: 100 Users
Nextcloud Hub + NocoDB + Zulip
OpenPane
Pay for resources used
176 hours/month (8hrs/day, 5 days/week)
per month
✓ You own your data
SaaS Alternative
Per-user pricing
per month
✗ They own your data
Save $2,194/month • $26,328/year
The bigger you grow, the more you save. While SaaS costs scale linearly per user, OpenPane's infrastructure scales more efficiently—giving you predictable, transparent pricing that rewards growth.
Where Your Money Goes
Your payments fund the people, infrastructure, and mission that make OpenPane sustainable: engineering labor, platform operations, hardware investments, and cooperative infrastructure initiatives.
Infrastructure Costs
Server hosting, network, and monitoring infrastructure
Platform Operations
24/7 on-call support, maintenance, security, and engineering labor
R&D & Platform Growth
Feature development, hardware investments, and financial reserves
Team Compensation
Competitive wages and profit sharing for our cooperative team
Community & Cooperative Infrastructure
Open-source contributions and cooperative infrastructure initiatives