Backstage Plans Pricing
Backstage is an open-source CNCF Incubation project for building developer portals. The framework itself is free under the Apache 2.0 license and self-hosted by adopters; cost is operational (compute, hosting, internal engineering). Several commercial distributions and managed offerings exist built on Backstage (Spotify Portal for Backstage, Roadie, Red Hat Developer Hub / RHDH, Frontside Effection, Liatrio managed Backstage), each with their own pricing models. Pricing for the commercial distributions is mostly contact-sales or per-developer subscription.
Plans
Apache 2.0-licensed open-source framework. Self-hosted by adopters. No license fee.
- Software Catalog
- Software Templates / Scaffolder
- TechDocs
- Search
- Open-source plugin ecosystem
- Community Discord support
Spotify-built commercial distribution of Backstage with managed deployment, premium Spotify plugins (Soundcheck, Insights, Skill Exchange, RBAC), and enterprise support. Pricing is per-developer-per-month, contact sales.
- Hosted / managed Backstage
- Soundcheck (engineering health checks)
- Insights (usage analytics)
- Skill Exchange
- RBAC plugin
- Enterprise support
Roadie is a SaaS Backstage distribution with per-user pricing (typically tiered Free / Team / Enterprise). Contact Roadie for current pricing.
- Hosted Backstage
- SaaS plugin marketplace
- SSO / RBAC
- Enterprise support
Red Hat's enterprise-supported Backstage distribution. Bundled into Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus subscriptions or available standalone via Red Hat sales.
- Productized Backstage
- Bundled with OpenShift Platform Plus
- Red Hat enterprise support