Akka · Pricing Plans

Akka Plans Pricing

Akka offers a hybrid commercial model. Pre-production usage and OSS/academia/startup workloads are free. Production workloads are licensed in two shapes - self-managed (per-core annual licensing for Akka SDK and Akka Libraries with custom pricing) and Akka-managed (Akka Serverless starting at $0.25 per Akka hour, or per-region annual subscriptions for dedicated VPC deployments). Volume discounts and flexible multi-cloud credits are available via committed-use contracts.

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Plans

Development & Pre-Production freemium

Free commercial license for pre-production workloads. Includes confidential ticket support, Akkademy training, liability protections, and 4-month renewals. Also free for OSS, academia, and startups.

Pre-Production License (month · month) 0.00 USD
Akka SDK (Self-Managed) subscription

Per-core annual licensing for self-managed Akka SDK production deployments. Targeted at agentic systems with 24/7 support and technical management. Free for OSS, academia, startups, and pre-prod.

Per-Core License (core · year) custom USD
Akka Libraries (Self-Managed) subscription

Per-core annual licensing for self-managed Akka Libraries production deployments. Targeted at distributed-systems workloads with 24/7 support and technical management.

Per-Core License (core · year) custom USD
Akka Serverless usage-based

Akka-operated serverless platform billed per Akka hour. Includes active-active HA/DR, runtime patching, rolling updates, multi-tenancy, elastic scaling, and shared compute.

Akka Hour (akka-hour · month) starting at $0.25 / Akka hour USD
Akka in Your VPC enterprise

Akka-managed deployments inside the customer's VPC. Per-region annual subscription with data isolation, custom security posture, strict compliance support, and data sovereignty controls.

Per-Region Subscription (region · year) custom USD
Committed Use Contract enterprise

Volume-discounted committed-usage contract with 24x7 white-glove support and flexible multi-cloud credit usage.

Committed Spend (contract · year) custom USD

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