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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