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Community for evaluation. Enterprise for production private clouds.

Enterprise pricing is based on usable capacity.

vSAN migration promotion: new customers get up to 1 PB free in year one. Ends 30 Sep 2026. See promotion terms.
Pricing
Community

Self-operated for evaluation, labs, and smaller teams

COMMUNITY EDITION

Deploy Community

Features

  • Self-operated by your platform team
  • Community support via GitHub and Slack
  • NVMe/TCP protocol with full CSI driver
  • Snapshots, cloning, and thin provisioning
  • Best for evaluation, labs, and early adoption
Community support on GitHub Discussions Documentation
Enterprise

For private-cloud, on-prem, and production storage estates. Volume discounts at scale.

Usage-based, per usable TB / year

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Features

  • Installation on your infrastructure
  • Annual contracts aligned to usable capacity
  • Private-cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped deployments
  • Premium support, SLAs, and a dedicated Technical Account Manager
  • All features (see comparison table below)
Community

Self-operated for evaluation, labs, and smaller teams

COMMUNITY EDITION

Deploy Community

Features

  • Self-operated by your platform team
  • Community support via GitHub and Slack
  • NVMe/TCP protocol with full CSI driver
  • Snapshots, cloning, and thin provisioning
  • Best for evaluation, labs, and early adoption
Enterprise

For private-cloud, on-prem, and production storage estates. Volume discounts at scale.

Usage-based, per usable TB / year

Talk to Us

Features

  • Installation on your infrastructure
  • Annual contracts aligned to usable capacity
  • Private-cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped deployments
  • Premium support, SLAs, and a dedicated Technical Account Manager
  • All features (see comparison table below)

Predictable pricing, fewer drives

Licensed per usable terabyte per year — you pay for the capacity you actually use, not raw disk, CPU cores, or nodes. And because simplyblock protects data with erasure coding instead of replication, the same usable capacity needs far fewer drives.

Per usable TB / yearPay for capacity you actually use — not raw disk, cores, or nodes.
PredictableA flat annual rate. No egress, per-IOPS, per-snapshot, or per-node fees.
Your hardware, any platformRuns on standard x86 servers, any hypervisor or Kubernetes distro. No appliance.
No lock-inOpen and software-defined. Keep your data and your hardware, on your terms.

Fewer drives for the same usable capacity

3× replication typical software-defined storage 3.0× raw
simplyblock 4+2 erasure coding 1.5× raw

Same usable capacity and fault tolerance, roughly half the drives. Thin provisioning and inline compression reduce the footprint further, per workload.

VMware Migration

Complete VMware Replacement Stack

Virtualization + storage in one commercially supported package. Replace vSphere and vSAN without stitching together separate vendors. New customers migrating from vSAN qualify for up to 1 PB free in year one. <a href="/vsan-exit-promotion/">See promotion terms. Ends 30 Sep 2026.</a>

Immutable OS + Storage

Simplyblock + Talos

Secure, immutable Kubernetes platform with NVMe-native storage. Replaces VMware compute and vSAN in one hardened, API-driven stack, with KubeVirt for virtualization workloads.

  • Talos Linux: immutable, API-only Kubernetes nodes
  • NVMe-over-TCP persistent storage with CSI
  • KubeVirt virtualization support
  • One commercial package with deployment support
See Talos Bundle
Multi-Cluster Ops + Storage

Simplyblock + Rancher

Full Kubernetes management platform with production-grade storage. Covers cluster operations, persistent volumes, and VMware migration workflows, procured through simplyblock.

  • Rancher: centralized multi-cluster Kubernetes management
  • CSI-based persistent volumes with NVMe performance
  • Snapshot, backup, and recovery workflows
  • Rancher available through simplyblock as one package
See Rancher Bundle

Serverless Postgres

Vela: Serverless Postgres on Kubernetes

Built on simplyblock storage, Vela delivers on-demand Postgres with sub-second provisioning, instant clones, and per-branch database isolation. No storage management required.

Talk to Us About Vela Learn About Branching

Simplyblock Feature Comparison

Community Enterprise
Key Highlights
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All Core Features

Are all core features available

 All Core Features 		Available on Enterprise Plan
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Multi Tenant

You can share the storage cluster between multiple tenants

 Multi Tenant 		Available on Enterprise Plan
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Deployed in your Environment

The storage cluster is installed in your private cloud or on-prem environment

 Deployed in your Environment 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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Support Tier

What level of support is included in the subscription

 Support Tier 		Community Dedicated
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Pricing

What is the pricing model

 Pricing 		Free Commercial
Features
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Copy-On-Write Volumes

Copy-on-write (COW) is an optimization technique used in computer programming and data management

 Copy-On-Write Volumes 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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NVMe/TCP Volumes

High-performance storage devices that use the NVMe over standard TCP/IP networks

 NVMe/TCP Volumes 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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Data Distribution

Data distribution is the process of spreading data across multiple storage nodes to improve performance, reliability, and scalability of a storage system

 Data Distribution 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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Storage Overcommitment

Storage overcommitment is allocating more virtual storage capacity to users than is physically available, relying on typical underutilization of provisioned resources

 Storage Overcommitment 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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Thin Provisioning

Thin provisioning allows creating logical volumes larger than available physical storage, allocating actual space only when data is written

 Thin Provisioning 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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Instant Snapshots

Instant snapshots are point-in-time copies of data created instantly without duplicating the entire dataset, using copy-on-write technology

 Instant Snapshots 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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Local Clones

Local clones are instant, space-efficient copies of volumes that share data with the original until modifications occur, enabled by copy-on-write technology

 Local Clones 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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Encryption

Encryption prevents unauthorized access to data, enabling individual encryption keys per volume

 Encryption 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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Online Resizing

Online resizing allows storage volumes to be expanded or shrunk without disrupting service, while simplyblock remains operational and accessible

 Online Resizing 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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Zero Downtime Scalability

Zero downtime scalability allows simplyblock to expand capacity or performance without interrupting service, ensuring continuous availability during growth or increased demand

 Zero Downtime Scalability 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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High Availability

High availability is a system design approach that ensures simplyblock remains operational and accessible with minimal downtime or interruptions

 High Availability 		Available on Community Plan Available on Enterprise Plan
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QoS Policy

QoS policy defines rules to manage volume traffic priorities, IOPS, and throughput, ensuring critical data flows receive necessary resources while limiting less important traffic

 QoS Policy 		Available on Enterprise Plan
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Management UI

The management UI is a graphical interface for administrators to monitor, configure, and control simplyblock's storage resources and operations

 Management UI 		Available on Enterprise Plan
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Provisioned Capacity

Provisioned capacity is the total storage space allocated to volumes in the storage cluster, regardless of how much is actually being used

 Provisioned Capacity 		< 100TB Unlimited
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Multi Attach

Multi-attach allows a single storage volume to be connected to multiple compute instances simultaneously, improving availability and resource utilization

 Multi Attach 		Available on Enterprise Plan
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Learn more about your options

Private Cloud

See how simplyblock fits OpenShift, Kubernetes, and private-cloud teams modernizing storage and virtualization.

See Private Cloud

Questions about sizing or pricing

Are you unsure how simplyblock pricing maps to usable capacity, platform design, or support scope? Get on a call with one of our experts, without any commitment.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Community is the self-operated entry point for simplyblock. It is intended for evaluation, labs, smaller teams, and early platform work where you want to deploy and manage the storage stack yourself while getting access to the core platform capabilities.

Teams should move to Enterprise when simplyblock becomes part of a production private-cloud platform, an OpenShift or Kubernetes rollout, or a VMware migration program that needs commercial support, SLAs, and a contract sized to a real operating environment.

Enterprise pricing is structured around usable capacity, deployment model, support scope, and annual commitment. In practice that means simplyblock is priced as a production storage platform for your environment, not as a generic monthly public-cloud meter.

Yes. Enterprise contracts are typically sized around usable capacity rather than raw provisioned capacity. That aligns pricing better with how private-cloud and platform teams actually plan production storage estates.

Yes. Enterprise contracts are usually annual and can be shaped around larger capacity commitments or longer terms. If you already know your target estate size, we can turn that into a concrete commercial proposal.

Yes. Simplyblock is designed to run on your infrastructure, including private-cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. That makes it suitable for enterprise production environments with operational, security, or data sovereignty requirements.

Thin provisioning in simplyblock allows you to create volumes of any size without immediately using all that space. You only pay for the storage you actually use, not what you allocate. This saves money and simplifies capacity planning. It also improves storage utilization across your infrastructure. You can grow your storage gradually as needed without manual intervention.

Yes, simplyblock is natively based on SPDK and NVMe-of standard, supporting NVMe/TCP protocol. This means that there are no proprietary drivers needed to run simplyblock on your infrastructure - whether on-prem or on public clouds. Simplyblock provides high-performance software defined storage for Kubernetes based on industry standard protocols and standard Ethernet.

No. Simplyblock is licensed per usable terabyte per year, with no egress charges, no per-IOPS or per-snapshot metering, and no per-node or per-core fees. Your cost tracks the capacity you actually use, which keeps budgeting predictable as the cluster grows.

Simplyblock runs on standard x86 servers with NVMe drives over standard Ethernet, using NVMe/TCP, or NVMe/RoCE where a lossless fabric is available. It works with any hypervisor or Kubernetes distribution, including OpenShift, and needs no proprietary appliance or special NICs, so there is no hardware lock-in.

Simplyblock protects data with distributed erasure coding rather than replication. A 4+2 scheme stores the same usable capacity at 1.5x raw, versus 3x for three-way replication, which is roughly half the drives for the same fault tolerance. Thin provisioning and inline compression reduce the footprint further per workload.

Yes. The Community edition is self-operated and free for evaluation, labs, and smaller teams. Enterprise adds production support, advanced data services, and commercial SLAs for private-cloud, on-prem, and production storage estates.