Pricing
Pay for the cluster you run. The open engine stays free to operate yourself.
Free forever
$0
Prototypes
- 0.5 vCPU
- 1 GB RAM
- 4 GB disk
- Single node
Standard
Usage-based
Production workloads
- Dedicated resources
- High availability
- Backups
- 99.5% uptime SLA
Premium
Minimum spend
Security and compliance
- SSO
- VPC link
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- Contracted support
Hybrid Cloud
Data in your network. Control plane managed by Northline.
Private Cloud
Isolated install for large estates and air-gapped sites.
Compare
| Feature | OSS | Free | Standard | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vector search | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hybrid search | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quantization | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Uptime SLA | — | — | 99.5% | 99.9% |
| SSO | — | — | — | SAML / OIDC |
| Private networking | You operate it | — | — | VPC link |
| Support | Community | Community | Business hours | Contracted response |
How billing works
You are charged for vCPU, RAM, disk on the cluster, disk consumed by backups, and inference tokens on paid models. Meters close every hour. A larger cluster costs more; a cluster you scale down stops billing the old size.
Illustrative estimate
Standard ≈ vCPU × $28 + RAM GB × $8 + disk GB × $0.12. Not an invoice.
$130 / mo
Questions
The free cluster stops accepting writes that would pass 1 GB of RAM or 4 GB of disk. Move the same collection to Standard; the client and the data format do not change.