Small
€0.009589per replica-hour
€7 over a 730-hour month
A home cluster or a side project.
- Your own nodes — always free
- Managed, patched control plane
- Comfortable for ~5 nodes
- Community support
Longbridge Control Plane · Private beta
Run one Kubernetes cluster across your homelab, Hetzner, and AWS.
We manage the control plane. You bring the nodes. We never tax them.
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The mechanic
The control plane is the span. Your nodes are the piers.
A Kubernetes control plane — etcd, certificates, upgrades, availability — is the part that's genuinely annoying to run well. Longbridge runs that span for you. Everything underneath it, the compute that actually costs money, is hardware you already own, anywhere.
- Homelab, Hetzner, AWS, a Pi in the closet — joined as one cluster.
- Outbound-only node join. NAT and home networks just work.
- One kubeconfig. Standard tooling. Nothing proprietary.
Pricing
Flat price for the control plane. Your nodes, always free.
One flat rate per replica, by size — and each size is exactly double the last. Pick a size the way you'd pick an instance type; a cluster runs one replica by default. Never a bill that grows with your nodes. You're billed by the hour, from create to delete, so a month costs whatever hours it has.
Medium Most chosen
€0.019178per replica-hour
€14 over a 730-hour month
A small team running real workloads.
- Your own nodes — always free
- Twice the size of Small
- Comfortable for ~25 nodes
- Email support
Large
€0.038356per replica-hour
€28 over a 730-hour month
Production across several clouds.
- Your own nodes — always free
- Twice the size again
- Room for many objects and nodes
- Priority support
Ex-VAT. Indicative during the private beta — we'll confirm before we charge anything, and tell you before anything changes. No per-vCPU tax, no surprise overage meter: exceed a size and we prompt an upgrade, never a shock bill.
Need redundancy? Add replicas.
Every cluster runs one control-plane replica by default. Add more at the same per-replica rate — they scale the control plane out and let it shrug off a lost pod or a lost management node. You pay for exactly the hours that run, not a flat “HA surcharge.”
That's control-plane redundancy. We'll call it high availability once your datastore is redundant too — the same clusters, no price change. We don't use the word until it's true.
Add-ons
Attach only what you need.
Each is a flat price per cluster. The two that meter — backup storage and ingress traffic — bill by bytes you can count, cap where you tell them to, and opt out to a genuine zero.
€5/mo In early access
Backup & restore
Your cluster, recoverable — with restores we actually test.
etcd + volume snapshots to EU storage. 250 GB included, then €4 / 250 GB. Capped; opt out for €0.
€4/mo In early access
Public ingress
A reachable address for apps on homelab or NAT’d nodes.
A dedicated IPv4 + a relay we forward but never decrypt. 500 GB included, then €0.04 / GB. The direct path stays free.
€9/mo On the roadmap
Monitoring
Managed Prometheus, Grafana & alerting — off your own hardware.
100k series + 30 GB logs, 30-day history. Flat — unlimited users, no per-seat fee.
€5/mo On the roadmap
Single sign-on
OIDC login to your cluster, wired to your identity provider.
Audit-logged access, no shared kubeconfigs. Flat — unlimited users, no per-seat fee.
€5/mo On the roadmap
CI runners
GitHub Actions runners on the nodes you already own.
A managed runner controller in your cluster. Flat — unlimited minutes, never per-minute.
€19/mo was €23
Essentials bundle
Backup, ingress, monitoring & single sign-on — together, below the à la carte price.
Per cluster. Metered allowances still apply, still capped.
A calculator to put your real Longbridge bill next to EKS, Sidero Omni, and Cloudfleet — including the cases where they come out ahead — is on the way.
The honest part
No node tax
You pay a flat price for the control plane. Never per vCPU, per node, or per gigabyte of the hardware you already own.
No lock-in
Standard, conformant Kubernetes and a plain kubeconfig. Bring your nodes across any cloud — and walk away with them whenever you like.
No bait-and-switch
Honest defaults, no dark patterns — and we'll tell you before anything ever changes.
Early access
Stop paying tax on hardware you already own.
Longbridge Control Plane is in private beta, and a public waitlist is opening soon. Until then, drop us a line and we'll reach out as we open up — honest pricing, no surprises.
hello@longbridge.fi