Pricing

Free and unlimited if you self-host.
Pay only for hosted.

The open-source engine is Apache 2.0, runs in your cluster, and scales to any size. Radar Cloud is the team-scale layer on top - per cluster, never per seat - with fleet view, persistent retention, alerts, and SSO.

Apache 2.0 · Open source

Self-host Radar. Free, forever.

Run the full engine in your own cluster. No account, no cloud dependency, no node or cluster limits. Everything you need for single-team visibility ships with the OSS build.

  • Unlimited clusters & nodes
  • Full topology & resource views
  • Helm, image filesystem, audit
  • MCP / AI integration
  • Community Slack support
  • No cluster data out; one anonymous, blockable version check
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install
$helm repo add skyhook https://skyhook-io.github.io/helm-charts
$helm install radar skyhook/radar -n radar --create-namespace
No account · No credit card · ~30 seconds to a live view
Or — Radar Cloud

Hosted plans, priced per cluster.

When you need fleet view, persistent retention, alerts, SSO, or an SLA.

Cloud Free

Try Radar without running anything yourself.

$0
forever
Try hosted
  • 3 clusters included
  • Full fleet UI: topology, resources, Helm, MCP
  • Multi-user org with shared views & annotations
  • Cluster audit & timeline
  • Slack notifications
  • Google & GitHub login
  • Community support
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Team

For engineering teams that need governance and longer retention.

$99
per cluster / month
Try hosted
  • Everything in Free, unlimited clusters
  • SAML / OIDC SSO + scoped RBAC roles
  • 30-day audit log retention
  • PagerDuty, MS Teams, webhooks + per-cluster routing
  • Saved investigations & shareable incident snapshots
  • MCP audit trail
  • Email support
Enterprise

For regulated orgs, compliance needs, and self-hosted deployments.

Custom
annual contract
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  • Everything in Team
  • SCIM 2.0 provisioning + custom IdP
  • Custom alert rules (severity, suppression, matchers)
  • 1-year audit log retention + SIEM export
  • BYOC / on-prem deployment
  • 99.9% uptime SLA & dedicated CSM
  • Security & compliance review
  • Custom data-residency
SOC 2 Type 2 · every plan

Annual contracts get a 20% discount. All paid plans include a 14-day free trial — no credit card.

Pricing philosophy

We're OSS believers. Pricing should be honest about that.

OSS-first

The full engine is Apache 2.0 and runs on your laptop or in your cluster. Forever. No feature is held hostage to force a hosted upgrade - what's free in OSS stays free in OSS.

Transparent

Public per-cluster prices. No "contact sales" for the second tier. No per-seat trap that punishes you for letting more teammates look. Annual gets 20% off, that's the whole pricing model.

Pay for hosting, not for the product

Hosted plans charge for things only a hosted version can offer well - long retention, fleet-scale auth, an SLA, governance. Core product features ship in OSS and Cloud Free alike.

Compare plans

Everything in each plan, line by line.

FeatureCloud FreeTeamEnterprise
Core product
Clusters3 includedUnlimitedUnlimited
Nodes per clusterUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Fleet aggregation (Problems, Search, Certs, Packages)
Topology & traffic graph
Resource explorer & Helm
Image filesystem viewer
Cluster audit (31 checks)
MCP / AI integration
One-click in-cluster upgrade
Collaboration
Multi-user org & shared views
Shareable deep-links & annotations
Saved investigations & incident snapshots
Authentication & access
Google / GitHub login
SAML / OIDC SSO
Scoped RBAC roles
SCIM provisioning + custom IdP
Notifications
Slack
PagerDuty / MS Teams / webhooks
Per-cluster routing
Custom alert rules (severity, suppression, matchers)
Data retention
Cloud event timeline retention24 hours30 days1 year
Audit log retention7 days30 days1 year
MCP audit trail
SIEM export
Compliance & support
SOC 2 Type 2
Uptime SLA99.5%99.9%
SupportCommunityEmailDedicated CSM
BYOC / on-prem
FAQ

Questions we get a lot.

What's the difference between self-hosting (OSS) and Radar Cloud?
The open-source engine is Apache 2.0 and has everything you need to see one cluster at a time from your laptop or a shared in-cluster deploy — topology, resources, Helm, image filesystem, cluster audit, MCP integration. Radar Cloud is the hosted multi-cluster control plane on top of that: fleet views, long event retention, SSO, RBAC, Slack/PagerDuty alerts, and an SLA. You can run OSS forever for free. You pay when you want hosted convenience or the multi-cluster, long-retention, enterprise-auth features. See the full comparison on the Open Source page.
Can I use Radar OSS and Radar Cloud together?
Yes. Many teams run OSS Radar locally for a specific on-call engineer's laptop, while the team's shared fleet view lives in Radar Cloud. The two are interoperable - Radar Cloud uses the same OSS Radar binary with a cloud-sync flag, not a fork. Settings, keybindings, and views carry over.
Why per-cluster pricing instead of per-user?
A visibility tool gets more valuable when more people look at it. Per-seat pricing punishes that. Your pager rotation, your on-call engineer, your manager running a post-mortem — all of them should have access without a procurement conversation. Per-cluster tracks the actual cost of running Radar, and it aligns with the thing you care about: how much infrastructure you're monitoring.
What counts as a cluster?
Any Kubernetes cluster you connect to Radar via our Helm chart. A cluster is a cluster — no games around node count, control-plane type, or managed vs self-hosted. EKS, GKE, AKS, kOps, kubeadm, k3s, even kind clusters all count the same.
Do you offer discounts for startups, OSS projects, or academic institutions?
Yes to all three. Email radar@skyhook.io with a one-liner about your project. We want to keep the tool accessible to teams doing interesting work.
Is my cluster data sent to Radar?
Only the metadata needed to render topology, timelines, and resource views. No container logs, no secret values, no pod stdout. Radar filters at the source. For teams with stricter requirements, Enterprise offers BYOC deployment - data never leaves your cloud account.
What if I want to switch back to self-hosted?
Uninstall the Helm chart. Your clusters disconnect from Radar. You keep running OSS Radar as normal. We don't lock your data in — you can export event history and configuration at any time.
How does billing work?
Monthly billing based on the peak number of connected clusters in the month. If you connect and disconnect a cluster the same day, it counts once. Annual contracts get a 20% discount. Enterprise is invoiced annually.

Self-host the engine. Or layer Cloud on top.

Self-host with Helm in 30 seconds, or start a hosted workspace free. Same engine, your choice.

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