12-hour response
- Email & chat support
- Developer documentation
- EST / IST coverage
$0
Pricing
Pay just for the capacity we manage per hour. Nothing more.
Bring your own cloud and launch services. With no limits.
No lock-in. Cancel anytime and your services run as usual.
No credit card required to start
Pay as you go
Simple, pay-as-you-go pricing.
No seats. No tiers. You pay by the hour for the compute and memory LocalOps manages in your own cloud account — and nothing more.
Free tier
$0to get started
8,760vCPU-hours
17,520memory GB-hours
Free every month, managed by the LocalOps platform in your cloud account.
That's roughly two small environments (staging or production) for a startup.
Beyond the free tier
$0.0145834/ vCPU / hour
$10.50 / vCPU / month if run 720 hours sustained
$0.0076389/ GB / hour
$5.50 / GB / month if run 720 hours sustained
Always included
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited environments
- Unlimited services
- Preview environments to preview pull request changes
- Build and deploy automatically, anytime, from GitHub, Docker registries or Helm repos
- Versioned Helm charts to distribute self-hosted versions
- SSO
- Audit log
- Standard support, always included: 12h response via email and chat
No credit card required to start
Cost calculator
Estimate pricing
Size your environments and nodes to see what you pay on LocalOps, and what the same infrastructure costs to build and run yourself.
Your environments
For example: production-us, production-eu, staging.
2
3
2
4 GB
Observability
5
15
Cost to build this in-house
10
$8,500
Core build is the platform itself: IaC modules, pipelines, observability, golden paths. Extra environments reuse it, so build grows slowly. Upkeep runs at 3 engineer-months a year thereafter.
Where are you based?
US rates
You pay every month
$0
12 vCPU · 24 GB managed. Standard support and observability included.
In-house + Datadogper month
- Platform upkeep (3 mo/yr)$2,125
- Datadog infrastructure (6 × $15)$90
- Datadog APM (6 × $31)$186
- Datadog logs (5 GB/day × $0.1)$15
Total$2,416
Plus $97,750 upfront to build it (12 engineer-months).
LocalOpsper month
- Platform fee (0 vCPU-h · 0 GB-h)$0
- Support (Standard, 12h response)Included
- Observability (5 GB/day · 15d retention)$0
- BuildNone
Total$0
12 vCPU · 24 GB for 720 hours → 8,640 vCPU-hours · 17,280 GB-hours a month. Billable after free tier: 0 vCPU-hours · 0 GB-hours.
You save every month
$2,416
$2,416 in-house vs $0 on LocalOps, before the build.
Year 1 saving
$126,742
includes the build
Every year after
$28,992
upkeep and tooling
3-year total
$184,726
all in
Year by year
| Year | In-house | LocalOps | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $126,742 | $0 | $126,742 |
| Year 2 | $28,992 | $0 | $28,992 |
| Year 3 | $28,992 | $0 | $28,992 |
| Total | $184,726 | $0 | $184,726 |
Support
Want faster support?
Standard support is on every account. Upgrade for faster response times and a dedicated channel.
4-hour response
Everything in Standard, plus
- Dedicated Slack / MS Teams channel
- EST / IST coverage
$399/ month, flat
15-min response + SLA
Everything in Priority, plus
- Dedicated contact
- EST / IST coverage
$899/ month, flat
Want a different package? Talk to us or schedule a sales call.
Trusted by top founders
What founders and CTOs say about LocalOps.
Achieving consistency, governance, and scale across a distributed org.
“I've stitched together observability and containerization stacks before on smaller teams. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines. None of this is new technology.The hard part was never the tools, it was achieving consistency, governance, and scale across a distributed org with multiple business units and engineering teams spread across geographies. That's the problem LocalOps solved for us.”
Vasanth ManiGlobal CTO, Ebix Inc.
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Affordability
LocalOps + your cloud account is more affordable in the long term.
You pay LocalOps a flat platform fee. Compute, network and storage stay on your AWS, GCP or Azure bill — at standard cloud pricing.
- 60%cheapervs. Render
Run the same services on your own cloud account through LocalOps — without paying the managed-PaaS premium.
- 50%cheapervs. Fly.io
Workloads stay in your VPC, in your region, on commodity cloud pricing — no per-region per-vm markup.
- 33%cheapervs. ECS
All of Fargate's automation without paying for Fargate. EC2-backed nodes managed by LocalOps.
Indicative comparison for typical scaling workloads. Numbers vary by region, plan and workload mix.
Cloud operations
Want us to manage your cloud accounts?
Sure! We can be your DevOps team — handling incidents on-call. Talk to our team and understand how we can collaborate.
Get started
Pick a path. Ship today.
How does pay-as-you-go pricing work?
You start for free and pay by the hour for the compute and memory LocalOps manages in your own cloud account. Each month, the first 8,760 vCPU-hours and 17,520 GB-hours are free. Beyond that you pay $0.0145834 per vCPU-hour and $0.0076389 per GB-hour, about $10.50 / vCPU and $5.50 / GB for a full 720-hour month. Unlimited users and every feature included.
Is there really a free tier?
Yes. Each month, the first 8,760 vCPU-hours and 17,520 GB-hours managed via LocalOps are free. That's roughly two small environments (staging + production) running all month. No credit card required to start. You connect your own AWS, GCP or Azure account, so your only other cost is your underlying cloud usage.
Do I pay for cloud infrastructure separately?
Yes. LocalOps charges only for the resources it manages. Compute, network, storage and any managed services live on your AWS / GCP / Azure bill at standard cloud pricing. We never mark up cloud spend.
How is the resource usage measured?
LocalOps meters the vCPU and memory it manages across all your projects and environments, and bills in vCPU-hours and GB-hours. Scale up for a few hours and you pay for those hours only; scale down and the bill drops with it. Each month we subtract the free tier and charge for the hours left. Your usage is fully transparent: you can see it anytime in the Settings section of your LocalOps console. Use the calculator above to estimate your monthly platform fee.
Is there any lock-in?
No. Everything LocalOps creates — Kubernetes manifests, infrastructure, container images — lives in your cloud and can be exported or inspected. If you stop using LocalOps, your environments keep running on standard primitives.
What support is included, and what do the paid plans add?
Standard support is included on every account: 12-hour response time, developer docs, and email & chat support. Priority ($399 / month flat) adds a 4-hour response time and a dedicated Slack / MS Teams channel. VIP ($899 / month flat) adds a 15-minute response time, a dedicated contact and an SLA.
Can you manage our cloud accounts for us?
Yes. Beyond the platform, our team can help operate your cloud — from backing up your existing engineers to running cloud operations end to end. Talk to us about how we can collaborate: email sales@localops.co or book a sales call at cal.com/anand-localops/sales.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel any time from the console. Your services keep running on your cloud — there's no platform we shut down.
Which payment methods do you accept?
Credit card and invoice / wire transfer. Enterprise customers can use POs and standard procurement flows.