Backstage Plans Pricing
Backstage is an open-source CNCF Incubation project for building developer portals. The framework itself is free under the Apache 2.0 license and self-hosted by adopters; cost is operational (compute, hosting, internal engineering). Several commercial distributions and managed offerings exist built on Backstage (Spotify Portal for Backstage, Roadie, Red Hat Developer Hub / RHDH, Frontside Effection, Liatrio managed Backstage), each with their own pricing models. Pricing for the commercial distributions is mostly contact-sales or per-developer subscription.
Backstage Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Backstage on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 4 plans, covering freemium and subscription tiers, with named plans including Backstage Open Source, Spotify Portal for Backstage (Commercial), Roadie (Managed Backstage), Red Hat Developer Hub (RHDH).
Tagged areas include Developer Portal, Open Source, CNCF, and Internal Developer Platform.
Plans
Apache 2.0-licensed open-source framework. Self-hosted by adopters. No license fee.
- Software Catalog
- Software Templates / Scaffolder
- TechDocs
- Search
- Open-source plugin ecosystem
- Community Discord support
Spotify-built commercial distribution of Backstage with managed deployment, premium Spotify plugins (Soundcheck, Insights, Skill Exchange, RBAC), and enterprise support. Pricing is per-developer-per-month, contact sales.
- Hosted / managed Backstage
- Soundcheck (engineering health checks)
- Insights (usage analytics)
- Skill Exchange
- RBAC plugin
- Enterprise support
Roadie is a SaaS Backstage distribution with per-user pricing (typically tiered Free / Team / Enterprise). Contact Roadie for current pricing.
- Hosted Backstage
- SaaS plugin marketplace
- SSO / RBAC
- Enterprise support
Red Hat's enterprise-supported Backstage distribution. Bundled into Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus subscriptions or available standalone via Red Hat sales.
- Productized Backstage
- Bundled with OpenShift Platform Plus
- Red Hat enterprise support