Fixed price Kubernetes: one flat price per cluster

€24, €59 or €109 a month per cluster, and nothing else: node, control plane, ingress and 20 TB of traffic included. A flat rate, not a meter: no add-ons, no surprise egress bills. A predictable managed Kubernetes hosting price on EU infrastructure, cheaper than metered EKS and GKE.

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Per-cluster pricing

Each size is a dedicated single-tenant cluster on its own server. One flat price, billed monthly. Cancel anytime and billing stops at the end of the period.

skube1

€24 /mo incl. VAT

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB SSD

A handful of small apps: side projects, staging, experiments.

  • ✓ Single-tenant cluster
  • ✓ Full cluster-admin
  • ✓ Ingress included
  • ✓ 20 TB traffic included
  • ✓ Nightly backups
  • ✓ Email support
  • ✓ Cancel anytime
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skube2

€59 /mo incl. VAT

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB SSD

Early production: an app with real users, side projects alongside.

  • ✓ Single-tenant cluster
  • ✓ Full cluster-admin
  • ✓ Ingress included
  • ✓ 20 TB traffic included
  • ✓ Nightly backups
  • ✓ Email support
  • ✓ Cancel anytime
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skube3

€109 /mo incl. VAT

8 vCPU · 16 GB · 160 GB SSD

A busy cluster: many apps and bigger databases, side by side.

  • ✓ Single-tenant cluster
  • ✓ Full cluster-admin
  • ✓ Ingress included
  • ✓ 20 TB traffic included
  • ✓ Nightly backups
  • ✓ Email support
  • ✓ Cancel anytime
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Cancel anytime; EU consumers have a 14-day right of withdrawal.

Predictable, not metered

The managed clouds meter the control plane, nodes, load balancers and egress separately. skube is one flat price per cluster, so the number you see is the number on the invoice.

skube EKS GKE
skube12 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB €24 flat from ~€108 est.t3.medium · 2 vCPU · 4 GB from ~€107 est.first cluster from ~€43e2-medium · 2 vCPU · 4 GB
skube24 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB €59 flat from ~€137 est.t3.large · 2 vCPU · 8 GB from ~€135 est.first cluster from ~€71e2-standard-2 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB
skube38 vCPU · 16 GB · 160 GB €109 flat from ~€196 est.t3.xlarge · 4 vCPU · 16 GB from ~€189 est.first cluster from ~€125e2-standard-4 · 4 vCPU · 16 GB
Pricing model Flat Control plane + nodes + egress, metered Cluster fee + nodes + egress, metered
Traffic / egress 20 TB included Metered per GB Metered per GB
Disaster recovery Nightly snapshots included DIY or paid add-on Paid add-on
High availability No, one dedicated node Multi-AZ control plane, node groups Regional clusters, multi-zone
Autoscaling No, fixed size per cluster Node groups, Karpenter Node pools, Autopilot
Setup to first kubeconfig One order form VPC, IAM, node groups, add-ons Project, node pools, IAM
Who runs it We do, end to end Control plane managed; nodes, upgrades, add-ons on you Control plane managed; node pools on you
Standard, upstream k8s Yes, stock Conformant, AWS add-ons Conformant, GCP add-ons
EU data residency EU only EU regions EU regions
How these estimates work, disclaimer & trademarks

Competitor estimates use the cheapest instance matching each tier's RAM (see More info for instance and vCPU), the same SSD, and one load balancer with minimal egress; publicly available prices as of 2026-07-06, excl. tax (skube prices shown include VAT), USD converted at €1 = $1.1424. Headline GKE figures exclude its cluster-fee credit; the "first cluster" line includes it (the credit covers one zonal cluster per account; the fee applies from the second cluster on). Competitor pricing and features change; check each provider's own site for current details.

EKS, GKE and Kubernetes are trademarks of their respective owners, used here for identification only; their owners do not endorse skube.

Is one node enough?

For dev, staging and early production: yes. Each cluster runs on its own dedicated server, and even the smallest size (2 vCPU / 4 GB) comfortably runs a typical web app, its database and ingress for your first few thousand users. Bigger sizes go up to 8 vCPU / 16 GB. And skube runs on skube: the page you are reading is served from our own single-node cluster.

If the node fails, we restore your cluster from a nightly snapshot. And when you outgrow it, order the next size up and apply the same manifests, or take them to a multi-node HA cluster anywhere, unchanged. You pay for redundancy when you need it, not before.

Billing questions

How does billing work?
A flat monthly price per cluster, VAT included, nothing on top. Creating an account is free; you pay when you order a cluster. Cancel anytime from the dashboard and billing stops at the end of the period. No seats, no egress metering: 20 TB of traffic is included, and if you regularly push past it we will talk to you first, never surprise-bill.
How long until my cluster is ready?
Every cluster is verified healthy by a human before handover: typically within hours of your order, always within one business day. You get an email the moment your kubeconfig is ready in the dashboard.
Can I run more than one cluster?
Yes. Each order is its own dedicated cluster, so for a second environment like staging, just place another order.
What happens when I outgrow it?
You migrate, and because it is stock Kubernetes, nothing about your workloads changes. The same manifests and GitOps that ran here apply cleanly to an HA cluster when you need multi-node or higher availability.

Ready to start from €24/mo?

€24. That's the invoice. Nothing else shows up on it.

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Free account; pay only when you order. Questions first? Email support@skube.dev, a human answers.