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freemiumlast verified September 6, 2026official site ↗

At a glance

Transparent usage-based and tiered pricing built on OpenTelemetry. Free Forever tier covers up to 100 GB/month (or 5 hosts / 1M logs) with 14-day data retention. Pay-As-You-Go offers unified telemetry ingestion at $0.30/GB (blended across logs, metrics, and traces) with 30-day retention, RUM ($1/1k sessions), and synthetics ($1/5k checks). Enterprise unlocks custom volume discounts, 90+ day data retention, Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) or on-prem deployment, SAML SSO, dedicated SLA, and 24/7 premium support.

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same category, free plan or open-source license

OpenLITopen source100% free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license ($0 self-hosted on Docker and Kubernetes). Features OpenTelemetry-native LLM tracing, GPU hardware metrics (NVIDIA/AMD/Intel), Prompt Hub, and security guardrails. Managed OpenLIT Cloud edition is available for hosted enterprise deployments.Ciliumopen sourceFree and 100% open source under the Apache-2.0 license (with dual GPL-2.0/BSD-2-Clause BPF datapath templates) as a CNCF Graduated project. Cilium has no software licensing fees for self-hosted or cloud Kubernetes deployments (including GKE Dataplane V2 and Azure CNI Powered by Cilium); organizations pay only for their compute infrastructure. For mission-critical enterprise environments, Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium (by Cisco) provides quote-based annual subscriptions (per-node/environment) with 24/7 SLA support, hardened LTS builds, Customer Testing Environments (CuTEs), enterprise BGP/EVPN, and advanced multi-cluster security and observability retention.OrbStackFree for personal and non-commercial use, educational studies, and open-source development. Commercial and business use (or individuals generating >$10,000/year) requires a paid Pro license at $8/user/month billed annually ($96/year) or $10/month monthly, covering up to 5 devices per user with priority support and a 30-day trial. Enterprise plans provide custom volume pricing, centralized billing, MDM/SSO directory integration, and 99.9% uptime SLAs.Rayopen sourceRay is a free and open-source distributed computing framework governed by the PyTorch Foundation under the Apache 2.0 license. It can be self-hosted on any cloud or on-prem cluster with zero licensing costs, while managed execution is available via cloud providers like Anyscale.
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FAQ

How much does Middleware cost?

Transparent usage-based and tiered pricing built on OpenTelemetry. Free Forever tier covers up to 100 GB/month (or 5 hosts / 1M logs) with 14-day data retention. Pay-As-You-Go offers unified telemetry ingestion at $0.30/GB (blended across logs, metrics, and traces) with 30-day retention, RUM ($1/1k sessions), and synthetics ($1/5k checks). Enterprise unlocks custom volume discounts, 90+ day data retention, Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) or on-prem deployment, SAML SSO, dedicated SLA, and 24/7 premium support. Paid pricing starts at $0.30/GB.

Does Middleware have a free plan?

Yes — Middleware has a free plan alongside its paid tiers.

What are free or cheaper Middleware alternatives?

OpenLIT, Cilium, OrbStack are in the same category with a free plan or open-source license.

pricing is editorial catalog data (last verified September 6, 2026) — vendors change plans; confirm on the official site before you buy. Reuse this data under CC-BY 4.0 via /data.