Vespa pricing
7 plans read from vespa.ai
StartupPrice not published Resources are charged hourly; community support only, no SLA.Shared resources · no SSO or autoscaling · no redundancy by default · dev zones only · approx. 15 minutes/day downtime during upgrades unless redundancy is specified Read 14 Oct 2026 · cloud.vespa.ai
BasicPrice not published Initial resource unit prices; billed for allocated resources, with prices decreasing by volume.For applications that do not need 24/7 operational support Read 14 Oct 2026 · cloud.vespa.ai
CommercialPrice not published Initial resource unit prices; billed for allocated resources, with prices decreasing by volume.24/7 operational support · production response time 1 hour Read 14 Oct 2026 · cloud.vespa.ai
EnterprisePrice not published Initial resource unit prices; billed for allocated resources, with prices decreasing by volume; minimum monthly spend of $20,000.24/7 deployment support · backup and disaster recovery · SSO · named support representative · dedicated Slack channel Read 14 Oct 2026 · cloud.vespa.ai
StartupFree Per hour; vCPU $ 0.05 / hour; Memory GB $ 0.005 / hour; Disk GB $ 0.0002 / hour; GPU Memory GB $ 0.03 / hourDev zones only · Shared resources · No SSO or autoscaling · No redundancy by default · Community support only, no SLA Read 4 Oct 2026 · cloud.vespa.ai
Enterprise *$0.18 a month Initial unit prices per hour: vCPU $ 0.18 / hour; Memory GB $ 0.018 / hour; Disk GB $ 0.0007 / hour; GPU Memory GB $ 0.125 / hourPrices go down with volume · Minimum monthly spend of $20,000 · Backup and disaster recovery · SSO and dedicated support options Read 4 Oct 2026 · cloud.vespa.ai
Self ManagedPriced on request Contact Sales; support response times per contract.Self-managed deployment including support Read 14 Oct 2026 · cloud.vespa.ai
In short
- Vespa has a free plan (Startup).
- A free trial is offered.
- Paid plans published: 1, from $0.18 a month.
- 1 plan is priced on request (Self Managed).
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