Rancher Pricing
Every Rancher plan with its monthly and annual price, what it costs for common team sizes, and a calculator to estimate your own monthly cost before you buy.
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Plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing (per month) | Per user or flat | Users | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rancher (open source) | Free | Free | — | No limit listed | Yes |
| SUSE Rancher for AWS | $168/mo | Not listed | Flat | No limit listed | No |
| SUSE Rancher Prime | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
Prices last updated November 2026.
What each Rancher plan includes
Rancher (open source)
- Helm app catalog
- Free and open source
- Fleet GitOps included
- Central authentication and RBAC
- Monitoring, alerting and log shipping
- Multi-cluster provisioning and import
- Community support only (Slack, forums, GitHub)
SUSE Rancher for AWS
- 30-day free trial
- Base includes 24 managed vCPUs
- AI assistant built on Amazon Bedrock
- EKS and EC2 costs billed separately by AWS
- Fully managed SaaS Rancher sold through AWS Marketplace
- No minimums or upfront commitment, billed on AWS invoice
- IAM-to-Kubernetes RBAC mapping, cluster cost estimates, EKS cluster import
SUSE Rancher Prime
- 1-year and 3-year terms
- Contact sales for pricing
- Standard or Priority SUSE support
- Up to five years of lifecycle support for RKE2 and K3s
- Certified distributions and support requests through SUSE Customer Center
- Licensed per 2 cores or 4 vCPUs on VMs, or per 1-2 socket server up to 64 cores on bare metal
What Rancher costs by team size
| Team size | 1 user | 5 users | 10 users | 25 users | 50 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | FreeRancher (open source) | FreeRancher (open source) | FreeRancher (open source) | FreeRancher (open source) | FreeRancher (open source) |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges.
Add-ons
| Add-on | Monthly billing | Annual billing (per month) | Charged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rancher Suite add-ons (SUSE Storage, Security, Virtualization, Observability, Private Registry)Optional SUSE add-ons sold alongside Rancher Prime. Each needs one subscription per Rancher Prime subscription. No public price. | Not listed | Not listed | Per Rancher Prime subscription |
Usage pricing
| Metric | Plan | Included per month | Price after that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managed vCPUs above base | SUSE Rancher for AWS | 24 | $7 per vCPU per month |
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Cost breakdown
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Rancher pricing FAQs
SUSE does not publish prices. Since 2025, one subscription covers 2 cores or 4 vCPUs on VMs, or one server with 1 to 2 sockets and up to 64 cores on bare metal. Downstream cluster nodes count too. A dated October 2026 analysis reported German reseller list prices of about EUR 2,113 per year at Standard support and EUR 2,817 at Priority for each 2-core or 4-vCPU unit.
SUSE Rancher for AWS is a fully managed SaaS edition sold on AWS Marketplace. It costs $168 per month for 24 managed vCPUs plus $7 per extra vCPU, with a 30-day free trial and no upfront commitment. EKS and EC2 are billed separately by AWS.
Yes, Rancher has a free plan: Rancher (open source).
Rancher's Rancher (open source) plan includes Helm app catalog, Free and open source, Fleet GitOps included, Central authentication and RBAC, Monitoring, alerting and log shipping, Multi-cluster provisioning and import and 1 more.
Rancher lists 3 plans, including a free plan. The cheapest paid plan is SUSE Rancher for AWS, at $168/mo billed monthly.
Rancher's SUSE Rancher for AWS plan, at $168/mo billed monthly, includes 30-day free trial, Base includes 24 managed vCPUs, AI assistant built on Amazon Bedrock, EKS and EC2 costs billed separately by AWS, Fully managed SaaS Rancher sold through AWS Marketplace, No minimums or upfront commitment, billed on AWS invoice and 1 more.
Rancher is free for 10 users on its Rancher (open source) plan.
No. Every Rancher paid plan with a listed price is a flat monthly price, whatever the team size.
Yes. Rancher sells an add-on on top of its plans: Rancher Suite add-ons (SUSE Storage, Security, Virtualization, Observability, Private Registry). It also charges by usage for Managed vCPUs above base, past what the plan includes.