Kestra pricing guide details
Pricing Overview
Kestra publishes no prices. Its pricing page sets out three editions — Open Source, Cloud and Enterprise — and describes what each includes, but carries no dollar amount anywhere.
The Open Source edition is the substantive free offering, not a trial: it is Apache-2.0 licensed, self-hosted, and runs unlimited flows and executions with declarative YAML workflows, event-driven scheduling and the full plugin library. That makes Kestra genuinely free to adopt for a team willing to run it, which is a different proposition from a free tier with usage caps.
One inconsistency worth noting, since it is on the pricing page itself: Kestra describes its plugin library as "1,200+ Plugins" in one place and "2000+ Plugins" in another. Both figures are the vendor's, and we have not reconciled them.
Cloud Edition and Enterprise Edition are quote-only. Enterprise support is offered at Standard, Premium or Platinum level, which differ in support channels, service level agreement and coverage hours rather than in product capability.
Plan Comparison
| Edition | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free, Apache-2.0 | Self-hosted, unlimited executions, full plugin library, event and schedule triggers |
| Cloud Edition | Not published | Kestra-managed hosting |
| Enterprise Edition | Not published | Worker groups and task runners, high concurrency, plugin versioning, external log aggregators, internal secret manager |
Enterprise support levels, all quote-only: Standard is email with a 24-hour P0 response and 8x5 coverage; Premium adds a dedicated Teams or Slack channel with a 6-hour P0 response; Platinum offers a 1-hour P0 response with 24x7 coverage and expert advisory services.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
Self-hosting is free but not costless. The Open Source edition removes the licence, not the infrastructure, the upgrades or the on-call. For a team comparing it against a managed alternative, the honest comparison is licence plus operations against subscription, and the operations half is yours to estimate.
The Enterprise feature list is the boundary that matters. Worker groups, high concurrency, plugin versioning and the internal secret manager are the features a production deployment tends to need at scale, and they are not in the open-source edition. Establish which of them your architecture depends on before assuming self-hosting is sufficient.
Support level is priced separately from capability. Because Standard, Premium and Platinum differ only in response times and coverage, an organisation with an out-of-hours dependency is buying a support tier rather than more product.
What We Cannot Tell You
We hold no source containing a Kestra price. Earlier versions of this page stated a monthly figure for a paid tier and built cost estimates on it; that figure appears in no source we hold and has been removed rather than re-sourced. The edition structure above is what Kestra actually publishes.