Red Hat OpenShift Pricing
Every Red Hat OpenShift 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Sandbox | Free | Free | — | No limit listed | Yes |
| Container Platform (self-managed) | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| Kubernetes Engine (self-managed) | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| Managed (ROSA / OpenShift Dedicated / ARO) - on demand | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| Managed (ROSA / OpenShift Dedicated) - 1-year commitment | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| Managed (ROSA / OpenShift Dedicated) - 3-year commitment | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| Platform Plus (self-managed) | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| Virtualization Engine (self-managed) | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
Prices last updated November 2026.
What each Red Hat OpenShift plan includes
Developer Sandbox
- For development and testing only
- Free, instant access to a minimal preconfigured OpenShift environment
Container Platform (self-managed)
- Service Mesh
- Developer console
- Quote-based pricing
- OpenShift Serverless
- Pipelines and GitOps
- Everything in Kubernetes Engine
Kubernetes Engine (self-managed)
- Quote-based pricing by sizing and subscription
- Core enterprise Kubernetes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS
Managed (ROSA / OpenShift Dedicated / ARO) - on demand
- ARO scales to up to 250 worker nodes
- 99.95% uptime SLA, Red Hat SRE-managed
- ROSA with hosted control planes adds $0.25 per cluster hour
- $0.171 per 4 worker vCPUs per hour, about $1,500 per 4 vCPUs per year
- Cloud infrastructure (VMs, storage, networking) billed separately by the cloud provider
Managed (ROSA / OpenShift Dedicated) - 1-year commitment
- About 33% below on-demand
- Infrastructure billed separately
- $1,000 per 4 worker vCPUs per year (about $0.114 per hour)
Managed (ROSA / OpenShift Dedicated) - 3-year commitment
- About 55% below on-demand
- Minimum worker node configuration required
- ROSA 3-year contracts must be requested from AWS
- $667 per 4 worker vCPUs per year (about $0.076 per hour)
Platform Plus (self-managed)
- Quote-based pricing
- Red Hat Quay registry
- Advanced Cluster Security
- Advanced Cluster Management
- Everything in Container Platform
- OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials
Virtualization Engine (self-managed)
- Quote-based pricing
- Virtualization for virtual machine workloads only
What Red Hat OpenShift costs by team size
| Team size | 1 user | 5 users | 10 users | 25 users | 50 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | FreeDeveloper Sandbox | FreeDeveloper Sandbox | FreeDeveloper Sandbox | FreeDeveloper Sandbox | FreeDeveloper Sandbox |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenShift VirtualizationRuns and migrates virtual machines alongside containers. Listed as an add-on for Container Platform. | Not listed | Not listed | Per unit |
| Red Hat OpenShift AIAI and ML platform on OpenShift. Needs its own subscription on top of OpenShift. | Not listed | Not listed | Per unit |
Usage pricing
| Metric | Plan | Included per month | Price after that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managed OpenShift worker node fee (ROSA, ARO, Dedicated on demand) | Managed - on demand | None | $0.171 per 4 vCPU-hour |
| ROSA hosted control plane cluster fee | Managed - on demand | None | $0.25 per cluster-hour |
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Red Hat OpenShift pricing FAQs
ROSA, Azure Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Dedicated charge about $0.171 per 4 worker vCPUs per hour on demand. On ROSA and Dedicated this falls to about $1,000 per 4 vCPUs per year on a one-year commitment and $667 on a three-year commitment. ROSA with hosted control planes adds $0.25 per cluster hour. Cloud infrastructure is billed separately.
Red Hat publishes no list prices for Kubernetes Engine, Container Platform or Platform Plus. Pricing depends on sizing, typically per core-pair or vCPU, and on support level, so you need a quote.
Yes, Red Hat OpenShift has a free plan: Developer Sandbox.
Red Hat OpenShift's Developer Sandbox plan includes For development and testing only and Free, instant access to a minimal preconfigured OpenShift environment.
Red Hat OpenShift is free for 10 users on its Developer Sandbox plan.
Yes. Red Hat OpenShift sells add-ons on top of its plans: OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat OpenShift AI. It also charges by usage for Managed OpenShift worker node fee (ROSA, ARO, Dedicated on demand) and ROSA hosted control plane cluster fee, past what the plan includes.