Cilium Plans Pricing
Cilium is an open-source CNCF graduated project distributed under the Apache License 2.0 — there is no charge for the Cilium, Hubble, Hubble Relay, or Tetragon APIs and no commercial pricing tier on the upstream project. Commercial support and an enterprise-hardened distribution are available from Isovalent (acquired by Cisco) under names such as Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium and Isovalent Enterprise for Tetragon. Isovalent / Cisco does not publish list pricing for these enterprise SKUs.
Cilium Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Cilium on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering freemium and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Cilium Open Source, Isovalent Enterprise (commercial — Cisco).
Tagged areas include Cloud Native, eBPF, Kubernetes, Networking, and Open Source.
Plans
Apache-2.0 licensed Cilium, Hubble, Hubble Relay, and Tetragon. No charge, no registration, no rate limits applied by the project.
- Cilium agent and operator
- Hubble observability
- Hubble Relay
- Tetragon runtime security
- Community support (Slack, GitHub, Stack Overflow)
Commercial distribution and support for Cilium and Tetragon from Isovalent (now part of Cisco). Includes hardened images, certified releases, advanced enterprise features (e.g. Cluster Mesh, advanced network policy), and 24x7 support. Pricing is not publicly listed.
- Hardened, certified Cilium / Tetragon distribution
- Enterprise-only features (Cluster Mesh, advanced policy, etc.)
- 24x7 vendor support and SLAs
- Long-term release support
Sources
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.