Two tiers. Per cluster. No surprises.
One flat fee per cluster covers the control plane we run for you. Your worker nodes stay in your own Hetzner account, billed by Hetzner at your own — ideally grandfathered — rate. Prices exclude VAT (as of 2026-07-09).
Basic
Dev, staging, labs — and production that tolerates a short control-plane restart.
- Single control plane, operated for you
- Every platform feature — nothing is gated
- Your apps keep serving during control-plane restarts
High availability
A control plane that survives node failure.
- 3× etcd and API server replicas
- Control plane survives seed-node failure
- Everything in Basic
Three ways to pay, same cluster. Monthly is flat and cancel-anytime (runs to the end of the period). Annual is pay 10, get 12 — €490/€990 per year. Hourly pay-as-you-go bills awake hours only, with a 4-hour minimum per active period — and a hibernated cluster meters €0. Wake it for a spike, hibernate it overnight, pay for the hours it was actually awake.
Two bills, on purpose
Section titled “Two bills, on purpose”Running Kubernetes through PaaSbox means exactly two bills, and we only ever send one of them:
- PaaSbox bills the flat per-cluster fee. It covers your cluster’s entire control plane — API server, etcd, scheduler, controllers — plus automated provisioning, upgrades, scaling, hibernation, and the portal. There are no control-plane nodes on your bill, ever.
- Hetzner bills your worker nodes, load balancers, and volumes — directly to you, in your own Hetzner account, at your own rate. PaaSbox never resells compute. For adopted grandfathered servers, that rate is the one you locked in before the 2026 price increase.
A small production setup looks like: PaaSbox €99/mo for the HA control plane, plus your Hetzner bill (for example ~€127/mo for 3× cpx32 workers) paid to Hetzner directly.
What every cluster includes
Section titled “What every cluster includes”- Automated provisioning (~10–15 minutes from token to
kubectl get nodes), Kubernetes upgrades, and lifecycle management - Adopting your grandfathered servers — rebuilt in place, never deleted, so their price survives
- On-demand node pools that scale to zero, hibernation and wake on demand
- A real cluster-admin kubeconfig (short-lived, ≤ 8 h) and a full REST API
- No per-node fees, no user limits, no seats — invite your whole team
Fair, boring billing
Section titled “Fair, boring billing”- Card up front, €5 signup credit. A payment method is required before anything can run; a €5 credit (one per team) covers your first hours of playing. There is no free trial — there’s a credit, and no charge until you start a cluster.
- Prorated, per cluster. Start a cluster mid-month, pay for the days it ran. Each cluster is one line on your invoice.
- Spend caps by default. Every account starts with a €200/month cap, raisable to €1,000 → €5,000 → custom as billing history builds. At the cap, clusters are hibernated — never deleted.
- Fair use, not fine print. The flat price assumes a bounded control-plane footprint. Exceeding a limit is a conversation, not an outage — we block only the specific over-limit action, never a running cluster.
- EUR or USD. Your currency is set at your first checkout; VAT is added automatically where it applies, and EU businesses with a valid VAT ID use reverse charge.
Full mechanics — meters, caps, dunning, cancellation and refunds — are in billing & spend controls and the pricing docs; the legal versions are the refund policy and terms.
What would you save?
Section titled “What would you save?”The fee is one side of the math. The other side: the grandfathered Hetzner rates you keep and the control plane you no longer run yourself.
What would you save?
Tell us the pre-increase Hetzner servers you'd keep on their grandfathered rate.
Estimates in euro, gross (incl. 19% VAT), for one cluster. paasbox is €49 (Basic) or €99 (HA) / cluster / month excl. VAT — VAT-registered businesses reclaim VAT, so net figures are roughly these ÷ 1.19. “Savings” is the price increase youavoid by keeping your servers on their grandfathered rate — not your total infrastructure cost. Your Hetzner bill for the nodes themselves is separate and paid to Hetzner, and an idle node still bills. Prices: Hetzner list, 2026-06-15.
Questions?
Section titled “Questions?”The FAQ covers the ones people ask first — including what “adopting” a server does, why the token needs read/write, and what happens when you delete a cluster. The pricing docs have the ladder in table form.