Explode is priced per node per month. Hosted and on-premise run the same platform. For large deployments, universities and research institutions, contact sales.
Hosted
€490per node / month
Explode-hosted control plane. We take care of upgrades, backups and maintenance.
- Control plane
- Run by Explode
- Clusters connect
- Site appliance, outbound only
- Updates
- Managed by Explode
- Customer billing
- Stripe, EU VAT
On-premise
€690per node / month
Self-hosted control plane on your own infrastructure, licensed offline with no call home.
- Control plane
- On your own VM
- Clusters connect
- Directly, on your network
- Updates
- Signed bundles, one click
- Customer billing
- Optional
Custom Deployments
Contact sales
Multi-node deployments, universities and research institutions.
- Deployment
- Hosted or on-premise
- Scale
- Multi-node, multi-site
- Education and research
- Education licence
- Pricing
- Quoted per contract
Prices exclude VAT. A node is one hypervisor host.
Included per node
One fee, charged per node.
Every node in every cluster you connect counts once. Density stays yours: the fee counts nodes, not the VMs you fit on them.
The whole control plane
Desired-state provisioning, VNC and serial consoles in the browser, roles and quotas per organization, capacity budgets, a policy engine and an append-only audit trail. None of it is a paid add-on.
Billing under your name
Usage rolls up to one ledger and out as invoices through your own Stripe: you stay the merchant of record. Reverse-charge VAT, VIES checks and the standard rates for all 27 member states come with it.
Monitoring on every cluster
Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana on each Proxmox VE cluster, with preloaded dashboards and 23 alert rules. Metrics stay on site.