Nutanix Plans Pricing
Nutanix is sold as licensed software bundled with on-prem clusters or as Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS/Azure. APIs (Prism Central v3/v4, Prism Element v2, Karbon, NDB, NC2, NCM Self-Service, Foundation) are included with the underlying license; there is no separate API-tier pricing. Licensing is delivered as Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and Nutanix Database Service (NDB) editions, sold per-node or per-CPU-core via Nutanix sales and channel partners. Public list prices are not published. A 90-day free trial is available for evaluation.
Nutanix Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Nutanix on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 5 plans, covering freemium, enterprise, and usage-based tiers, with named plans including 90-Day Trial / Test Drive, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Nutanix Database Service (NDB / Era), Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).
Tagged areas include Cloud Management, Hyperconverged, Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Kubernetes.
Plans
Free 90-day evaluation license available via Nutanix Test Drive (CE / hosted lab) or partner request. Covers Prism Central, infrastructure APIs, and selected services.
- 90-day evaluation license
- Test Drive hosted lab
- Community Edition (CE) for personal use
- All Prism APIs included
Per-node / per-core licensed editions (Starter, Pro, Ultimate) covering compute, storage, virtualization, and AHV. Includes Prism Central API access. Pricing custom-quoted by Nutanix sales.
- Prism Central / Prism Element APIs
- AHV hypervisor
- Multi-edition (Starter / Pro / Ultimate)
- Per-node licensing
Add-on suite for self-service, intelligent ops, cost governance, and security. Per-VM or per-core licensing.
- NCM Self-Service API
- Cost governance
- Intelligent ops / X-Play
- Security Central
Database-as-a-service add-on for Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB. Includes NDB API.
- Nutanix Database Service API
- Multi-database (Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Mongo)
- Patch / clone / refresh automation
Hosted on AWS or Azure, billed via the cloud marketplace; underlying cloud resources (EC2, EBS, network) plus Nutanix software metered hourly.
- Hourly metered software
- AWS Nitro / Azure metal hosts
- NC2 API
Sources
- https://www.nutanix.com/products/cloud-platform
- https://www.nutanix.com/products/cloud-clusters
- https://www.nutanix.com/products/cloud-infrastructure
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