Why a setup fee?
The setup fee is charged once. It reflects the real cost of a skilled engineering team spending multiple days on your infrastructure before any code runs in production. This includes:
- Architecture review and documentation
- Bare metal provisioning and OS hardening
- Kubernetes cluster installation and configuration
- Network setup, ingress, and TLS configuration
- CI/CD pipeline construction tailored to your stack
- Initial deployment and verification in production
- Runbook creation specific to your application
This work is not automated. Engineers do it.
Monthly subscription
Your monthly fee is an all-in charge for the managed service. There are no add-ons and no surprise charges. The subscription covers:
- Dedicated bare metal hardware
- Unlimited deployments
- 24/7 on-call engineering support
- Continuous monitoring and alerting
- Security patching and Kubernetes upgrades
- Certificate management
- Monthly infrastructure report (Cluster M and above)
Pricing by tier
| Tier | Setup fee | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Cluster S | $2,000 | $2,000/mo |
| Cluster M | $5,000 | $5,000/mo |
| Cluster L | Custom | Custom |