Nitro pricing
Pricing that scales with your platform.
Start on the shared cloud, pay for more usage as your API grows, choose a dedicated or BYOC deployment for greater isolation and control, or run Nitro on your own infrastructure.
Nitro pricing plans
Free
Shared cloud, fully managed.
$0
- Shared multi-tenant cloud
- Schemas & environments included
- 1M operations / month
- 2 GB ingest / month
- 3-day log & trace retention
- Community support
Pay as you go
Shared cloud, usage based.
$20
per month
- Shared multi-tenant cloud
- 5M operations included, then $2 / million
- 2 GB ingest per 1M ops, then $1.15 / GB
- 60-day log & trace retention
- Email support
Dedicated Deployment
Dedicated
Single-tenant, volume based.
From $400
per month
- Single-tenant cloud or BYOC
- Priced by instance size
- Configurable retention
- Private networking
- SSO, audit log, role-based access
Self-Hosted
Your infrastructure.
Custom
- Run on your own infrastructure
- Air-gapped & on-prem supported
- Configurable retention
- Priority engineering support
- Long-term release channel
Compare plans
Compare Nitro plans, usage, and deployment
Capability | Free | Pay as you go | Dedicated | Self-Hosted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Plans & usage | ||||
| Monthly price | $0 | $20 / month | From $400 / month | Custom |
| Deployment model | Multi-tenant cloud | Multi-tenant cloud | Single-tenant cloud or BYOC | Your infrastructure |
| Included operations / month | 1M | 5M, then $2 / million | Volume based | Unmetered |
| Included ingest | 2 GB | 2 GB per 1M ops, then $1.15 / GB | Volume based | Unmetered |
| Data retention | 3 days | 60 days | Configurable | Configurable |
| Pricing model | Free, capped | Usage based | Volume based | Your infrastructure |
Gateway & server | ||||
| OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Authorization policies & roles | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Rate limiting | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Response caching | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Realtime subscriptions | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| GraphQL Federation | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Custom middleware & plugins | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Schema lifecycle | ||||
| Schema registry with history & rollback | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Client registry | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Breaking-change classification | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| CI schema & client checks | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Stage promotion with approval gates | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Fusion deployment orchestration | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| .NET Aspire integration | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Observability | ||||
| OpenTelemetry-native traces, metrics, logs | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Operation insights | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Per-client tracking | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Resolver-level insights | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Distributed tracing across Fusion subgraphs | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Service monitoring for any .NET service | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Operation reporting | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Operations & delivery | ||||
| Persisted / trusted operations enforcement | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Query cost analysis | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Request limits | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Deployment audit log | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Rollback by republishing an earlier tag | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Persisted-op distribution cache | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Security & access | ||||
| Roles & stage-scoped publish permissions | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| SSO | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Audit log | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| API keys and PATs | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Developer experience | ||||
| Built-in GraphQL IDE | Served from your endpoint | Served from your endpoint | Served from your endpoint | Served from your endpoint |
| MCP adapter | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| OpenAPI adapter | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Support | ||||
| Support channel | Community | Email + private chat | Priority engineering | |
| Release channel | Continuous | Continuous | Continuous | Long-term release channel |
| Onboarding & training | Docs & community | Docs & community | Guided onboarding | Custom training |
FAQ
Common questions
What is included in the Nitro Free plan?
The Free plan runs on the shared cloud and includes schemas and environments, 1 million operations, 2 GB of ingest per month, and 3-day log and trace retention for $0 per month.
How does Pay as you go pricing work?
Pay as you go is $20 per month and includes 5 million operations, 2 GB of ingest per million operations, and 60-day retention. Additional usage is $2 per million operations and $1.15 per GB of ingest.
How is a Dedicated Nitro instance priced?
Dedicated starts at $400 per month and is priced by instance size and volume. It supports a single-tenant ChilliCream cloud deployment or BYOC, with configurable retention and private networking.
When should I choose Self-Hosted Nitro?
Choose Self-Hosted when Nitro must run on your infrastructure, including on-premises or air-gapped environments. The plan has custom pricing, configurable retention, a long-term release channel, and priority engineering support.
Which plans include SSO and audit logs?
Dedicated and Self-Hosted include SSO, an audit log, and roles with stage-scoped publish permissions. Free and Pay as you go do not include those access-control features in the current comparison.
How do I choose between Dedicated, BYOC, and Self-Hosted?
Choose Dedicated for a single-tenant deployment managed in the ChilliCream cloud, BYOC to run a dedicated instance in your cloud account, or Self-Hosted to run Nitro on your own infrastructure. Contact us to review isolation, networking, retention, and data-location requirements.
Private deployment
Regulated industry or air-gapped?
Bring us your infrastructure, network, data-location, and procurement constraints. We will help map them to the right Nitro deployment architecture and commercial plan.
- Procurement and security requirements
- Dedicated, BYOC, or on-prem deployment
- Data location and network constraints
Start free. Scale when you do.
The Free plan includes 1 million operations, 2 GB of ingest per month, schemas and environments, and 3-day log and trace retention.
Need a private deployment? Compare Dedicated and Self-Hosted above.