Pharlux pricing
One product, one binary — the same Pharlux runs in every tier. The commercial tiers add a non-AGPL license, scale-out enterprise features (SSO, audit, S3 tier), and longer retention defaults.
| Tier | Price | Highlights | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | AGPL-3.0, self-hosted, full community feature set | Download |
| Team | $49/mo | 10 hosts, 30-day retention, basic SAML | Get license |
| Business | $199/mo | 50 hosts, 90-day retention, full SAML/OIDC/LDAP, audit log | Get license |
| Scale | $899/mo | 250 hosts, 1-year retention, white-label, S3 cold tier | Get license |
Commercial tiers include the Pharlux Enterprise binary. For deployments beyond 250 hosts or custom requirements, talk to us.
Every tier ships from the same source tree. The differences are licensing terms, scale limits, and which Enterprise features unlock.
| Feature | Community | Team | Business | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hosts | Self-host (any) | 10 | 50 | 250 |
| Retention | Disk-bound | 30 days | 90 days | 1 year |
| OTLP ingest (gRPC + HTTP) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SQL via DataFusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cross-signal JOIN on trace_id | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in alerts (SQL rules + Slack/webhook) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Embedded UI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-tenancy | Single ("default") | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SAML SSO | — | Basic | Full | Full |
| OIDC | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| LDAP | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit log | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| White-label UI | — | — | — | ✓ |
| S3 cold tier | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Source available | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Right to redistribute | ✓ (AGPL terms) | — | — | — |
| Support | GitHub Discussions | Email priority | Email + SLA |
Yes, same binary, same features. You're paying for the license terms, not the code. AGPL-3.0 is free but requires that your modifications and any service you build on top of Pharlux be released under AGPL too if you distribute or offer it as a service. The commercial tiers remove that obligation, plus give you the support and Enterprise features the larger plans need.
One server / VM / VPS that has Pharlux installed. The 10/50/250 limits are total Pharlux nodes you operate, not the number of services or applications you observe. A single Pharlux instance can ingest from hundreds of services.
You upgrade. Pharlux does not phone home or stop working — the limits are contractual. We'll reach out if your registered fleet looks well over the tier you're paying for, and we'll work out the right tier together. There is no "you broke the EULA" surprise at renewal.
We don't run a 14-day free trial. The Community tier is the trial: it's the same binary, runs in your own infrastructure, and lets you make a real evaluation against your real workload. When you're ready for the commercial license terms or the Enterprise features, contact licensing@pharlux.com.
The list prices are monthly with no commitment. Annual prepay gets you two months free (effectively a 16.7% discount). Email licensing@pharlux.com for the annual quote on your tier.
V1's design centre is 1–10 services on a single VPS. The Scale tier covers up to 250 hosts, which suits most growth paths without architectural change. Multi-VPS clustering and an S3 cold tier are V1.1+ work. For deployments larger than 250 hosts, we'll quote a custom contract — talk to us.
No. AGPL applies to Pharlux itself, not to the services Pharlux observes. Running Pharlux against your closed-source application does not make your application AGPL. The AGPL trigger is when you modify and distribute Pharlux. If that's a concern, the commercial license removes the AGPL terms entirely.
Commercial licensing enquiries