Red Hat OpenShift editions and pricing
Red Hat® OpenShift® creates consistency in and across diverse environments. Its flexibility enables teams to build and deploy a variety of applications with ease. It’s built to deliver speed and consistency at any scale across any infrastructure. Whether running self-managed Red Hat OpenShift on your own infrastructure, or fully managed in the public cloud of your choice, there’s a plan to match your needs.
Cloud services
Red Hat OpenShift cloud services editions
Reserved instances of Red Hat OpenShift are available for as little as $0.076/hour.*
*Pricing based on 4vCPU, 3 year contract. Minimum worker node configuration required.
Details |
Service on AWS |
Red Hat OpenShift |
Dedicated |
IBM Cloud |
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Infrastructure | Cloud hosted AWS |
Cloud hosted Azure |
Cloud hosted Google Cloud |
Cloud hosted IBM Cloud |
Billed by | AWS | Azure | 1. Red Hat for OpenShift 2. Google Cloud for infrastructure used |
IBM |
Managed by
This can include responsibilities for logging, monitoring, platform upgrades, security, and more. |
Red Hat and AWS | Red Hat and Microsoft | Red Hat | IBM |
Supported by
Can include chat, phone, and email support for installation, usage, configuration, diagnosis, bug fixes, and more. |
Red Hat and AWS | Red Hat and Microsoft | Red Hat | Red Hat and IBM |
Service level agreement (SLA) | 99.95% uptime | 99.95% uptime | 99.95% uptime | 99.99% uptime |
Eligibility towards committed spend discounts
Major software and cloud service providers like Red Hat, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Google reward customers for long-term spending by providing various discounts. |
Amazon Web Services Enterprise Discount Program | Azure Consumption Commitment Benefit | Google Cloud Committed Use Discounts | IBM Cloud Enterprise Savings Plan |
Choice of standard, high-memory, or high-CPU worker nodes | ||||
Choice of worker node sizes | ||||
Included support: Red Hat premium support and industry-leading site reliability engineers (SREs) | ||||
Continuous management of updates, security patches, and releases | ||||
Monitoring, logging, metrics, service mesh, and CI/CD capabilities | ||||
Price consistency across available regions | ||||
Red Hat OpenShift API Management included (up to 100,000 calls per day) |
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Self-managed
Self-managed Red Hat OpenShift editions
Choose Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus for the most comprehensive Openshift experience, or another edition depending on your needs. Pricing varies based on your sizing and subscription choices. Questions? Talk to a Red Hatter.
Red Hat recommends
Provides a complete platform for accelerating application development and application modernization. Download the datasheet.
Includes everything in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, plus:
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Essentials
- Red Hat Quay
Mid-level
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Provides a full set of operations and developer services and tools. Download the datasheet.
Includes everything in the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine, plus:
- Developer console
- Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
- Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
- Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
Entry-level
Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine
Provides the foundational, security-focused capabilities of enterprise Kubernetes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS to run containers in hybrid cloud environments. Download the datasheet.
Includes everything in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, plus:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operation system
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Entry-level for virtual machines
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine
Provides the proven virtualization capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift in a streamlined, cost-effective solution to deploy, manage, and scale VMs exclusively. Download the datasheet.
Includes:
- Administrator console
- Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
- User workload monitoring
- Platform logging

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