Platform economics

Managed services and a DevOps AI. Every developer ships full stack.

Ankra runs databases, caches, pipelines and clusters as managed services in your own cloud, and pairs them with AI agents that specialise in DevOps.

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The platform team sets the guardrails. Developers ship the whole stack themselves.

$ ankra services setup orders-db --package postgresql
  # reviewed plan: HA, backups
$ git push
  # build, scan, deploy, preview URL
$ ankra chat "why is checkout slow?"
  # the SRE agent finds it, fix as a PR
$ ankra cost savings
  # what to cut next

What it replaces

The toolchain bill, and the Ankra fee.

The tools a platform team usually assembles to do what Ankra does, at public list prices for 40 nodes and a 25-engineer team. Ranges reflect plan tiers and negotiated discounts.

Industry toolchain

€14,211/ monthMost likely. Range €9,885 to €22,829. Teleport is quote-based and not counted.

Ankra platform fee

€4,392/ month640 worker vCPU, 30 free, at the Startup rate of €0.01 per vCPU-hour from pricing. Your cloud bills the servers.

Toolchain range
Ankra fee
02Orchestration

Delivery and orchestration

Akuity (managed Argo CD)€0.5k to €1.8k /moAnkra: Native GitOps engine · Pro from $495 per month
HCP Terraform Standard€0.2k to €1.8k /moAnkra: Cluster and stack YAML, ankra cluster apply · $0.10 to $0.99 per resource
Port developer portal€0.7k to €1.8k /moAnkra: Portal, stack profiles, service catalogue · $30 to $40 per seat
03Kubernetes management

Kubernetes management and operations

Rancher Prime€3.7k to €8.6k /moAnkra: Cluster lifecycle on any cloud · $1,200 to $2,800 per node a year
Datadog Infrastructure + APM€2.6k to €3.7k /moAnkra: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, log explorer · $18 + $42 per host on demand
TeleportquoteAnkra: Kube gateway with SSO and recorded sessions · Quote-based

Managed services, self-hosted

Managed services, running in your own cluster.

Ankra sets each service up from a plan you review, checks its health, backs it up and upgrades it. The data, the network and the bill stay in your cloud account.

  • PostgreSQL

    CloudNativePG

    Instead of Cloud SQL, RDS

    ankra services setup orders-db --package postgresql

  • Valkey

    Redis-compatible cache

    Instead of Memorystore, ElastiCache

    ankra services setup cache --package valkey

  • OpenSearch

    Search and analytics

    Instead of Elastic Cloud, OpenSearch Service

    ankra services setup search --package opensearch

  • Metrics

    VictoriaMetrics

    Instead of Managed Prometheus, hosted metrics

    ankra services setup metrics --package victoria-metrics

  • Logs

    VictoriaLogs and the log explorer

    Instead of Cloud Logging, hosted log search

    ankra services setup logs --package victoria-logs

  • Queues

    NATS, plus Kafka and RabbitMQ add-ons

    Instead of Pub/Sub, Amazon MQ, Confluent

    ankra services setup events --package nats

  • Object storage

    SeaweedFS or provider buckets

    Instead of GCS or S3 with egress fees

    ankra services setup files --package seaweedfs

  • Registry

    Harbor, per organisation

    Instead of Artifact Registry, ECR

    ankra registry

  • Backups

    Velero, Kopia, database capture

    Instead of Backup for GKE, AWS Backup

    ankra backup vaults

  • Ingress, DNS, TLS

    Traefik, external-dns, cert-manager

    Instead of Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS

    ankra cluster apply -f cluster.yaml

  • Security

    Trivy, Kyverno, KEV and EPSS

    Instead of Security Command Center, container scanners

    ankra security

  • Secrets

    SOPS/AGE in Git, Vault

    Instead of Secret Manager, Doppler

    ankra cluster encrypt

Managed services · DevOps AI

Every developer, a full-stack engineer.

Managed services take away the undifferentiated work. AI agents that specialise in DevOps close the expertise gap. A developer who has never run Postgres or written a Helm chart can still ship the database, the pipeline and the fix, inside guardrails the platform team sets.

What one developer does alone

01

Gets a production database

ankra services setup orders-db --package postgresql prepares a plan to review: the package, placement and the application it serves. On confirm, Ankra runs it in the cluster and binds it to that application.

02

Ships it with a push

Ankra Pipelines builds rootless in your CI cluster, gates on Semgrep, Checkov and Trivy, publishes an immutable image and opens a preview for the pull request.

03

Fixes what breaks

The SRE agent reads the pod logs, events and the last deploy, names the cause and proposes the fix as a pull request. A person approves it.

04

Runs it well

ankra cost savings and ankra security say what to change next: idle capacity to cut, and exploited vulnerabilities to patch first.

Six role agents, in every organisation

  • AI Team Lead

    Triages requests, routes work to the right specialist and files tickets for anything that outlives the chat.

  • Developer

    Helm charts and values, deploys, CI/CD workflows and pull request demos.

  • Database Admin

    StatefulSets, volumes, operators and backups. Verifies backups before proposing anything that touches data.

  • SRE

    Alert triage, golden signals, incident timelines and postmortem notes. Evidence first.

  • DevOps

    Clusters, node pools, add-ons, stacks, GitOps drift and IaC. One reversible step at a time.

  • DevSecOps

    Turns a security report into fixes, as pull requests at the source and add-on upgrade proposals.

  • Observe · Propose · Autonomous
  • Writes need approval
  • Protected namespaces
  • Budgets per run
  • Audit log
$ claude mcp add --transport http ankra https://platform.ankra.app/api/v1/mcp

you   Why did checkout-api's deploy fail on staging?
ankra 2/3 pods in CrashLoopBackOff. DATABASE_URL is unset:
      the secret key was renamed, the chart reads the old one.
ankra Fix ready as a pull request. Waiting for your approval.
# illustrative transcript
The Kubernetes MCP server Platform pricing

How these numbers are made

  • Tool prices are public list prices, partly from third-party trackers where a vendor does not publish them, converted at $1 = €0.92. Each row links its source.
  • Per-node tools are scaled to 40 nodes and per-developer tools to 25 engineers. Your negotiated prices may be lower.
  • The Ankra fee is the Startup rate on worker vCPU above the 30 free. Enterprise, at €0.03 per vCPU-hour, adds SSO and the audit feed.
  • Infrastructure is billed by your cloud provider on both sides and is not part of this comparison.

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