Calico Plans Pricing
Calico's real commercial shape. The API in this record — projectcalico.org/v3 — is part of Calico Open Source, which is Apache-2.0 and free, and it runs on the operator's own Kubernetes API server. There is NO per-request pricing, no request quota and no metered API tier anywhere in the product. What Tigera sells is the commercial editions, priced per vCPU-hour or by contract.
Calico Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Calico on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 3 plans, covering free, paid, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Calico Open Source, Calico Cloud, Calico Enterprise.
Tagged areas include CNI, Containers, eBPF, Kubernetes, and Network Policy.
Plans
The open source project. Networking, network policy and observability across any Kubernetes distribution, self-hosted by the operator. This is the edition that serves the projectcalico.org/v3 API described in openapi/ and the CRDs in json-schema/.
- Calico CNI and IPAM
- NetworkPolicy and GlobalNetworkPolicy
- eBPF, standard Linux and nftables data planes
- BGP routing
- calicoctl CLI
- projectcalico.org/v3 API and CRDs
The hosted commercial edition, operated by Tigera. Usage-based pricing and annual subscription are also available through the Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces.
- Ingress gateway
- Observability
- Policy management
- Egress gateways
- Threat detection
- Enterprise support
- 7-day log retention
- Unlimited users
- Multi-cluster support
The self-managed commercial edition. No price is published; the page says Custom Pricing and routes to sales.
- Ingress gateway
- Observability
- Policy management
- Egress gateways
- Threat detection
- Enterprise support
- Custom log retention
- Unlimited users
- Multi-cluster support
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.