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Two products, one ecosystem. Start free, scale when you're ready. Community is a real product — not a demo.
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🚀 2026 Introductory Pricing
We're basically giving it away. Lock in these rates before they're gone.
Subscribe now and keep introductory pricing for life — as long as your license stays active. We'll announce new pricing tiers one month before the introductory promotion concludes. Community will always be free.
⚡ Volt Platform — per node
The runtime that runs ON your servers. Per-node, not per-core.
Volume discounts: 10–20% off for 11–100+ nodes · Save 20% with annual billing
Community
Free Forever
50–100 containers / node
$0
free for everyone — unlimited nodes
- systemd-nspawn + proot container runtime
- Networking — bridges, nftables, DNS, VLANs
- Security profiles — Landlock, seccomp, cgroups
- Performance tuning — 5 profiles, CPU/mem/IO/net
- Constellations (compose) — stack management
volt import docker://conversion- Stellarium CAS — local dedup & TinyVol assembly
- .vbundle air-gapped deployment
- Unified
volt ps+ journalctl logs - Volumes & images management
💬 Community (Discord / GitHub)
Pro
Micro-VMs, Hybrid Workloads, Clustering
500–1,000 containers / node
$49
per node / month
14-day grace period on expiration
- Everything in Community
- Multi-node clustering & scheduling
- Stardust VMM — KVM micro-VMs via
volt vm - Sub-millisecond VM restore & warm pools
- Distributed Stellarium, mesh networking
- CI/CD, private registry, ODE console
- GPU passthrough
📧 Email (48h SLA)
Enterprise
HA, SSO, Compliance, Dedicated Support
Unlimited containers / node
$99
per node / month
30-day grace period on expiration
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited containers per node
- HA clustering, SSO/SAML, audit logging
- Compliance reporting, BYOK encryption
- Air-gapped deployment
- Priority support (4h SLA) + Dedicated Slack
🚀 Priority (4h SLA) + Dedicated Slack
🔗 Manage your Volt nodes through VoltVisor Cloud
Unified dashboard for all your Volt infrastructure. Pair with any Volt Platform tier below.
☁️ VoltVisor Cloud — per organization
The dashboard that manages ACROSS your clouds. Save 20% with annual billing.
Explorer
Free
$0
forever
- 2 cloud providers
- 5 managed instances
- Basic monitoring (24hr retention)
- Capability warnings
- 3 recommendations/month
Pro
Multi-Cloud Management
$49
per month
- 5 providers, 25 instances (+$3/ea overage)
- 30-day metric retention
- Unlimited recommendations
- ODE Console (5 sessions)
- Managed firewall (10 instances)
- Basic migration, API (10K calls)
- 3 users
Business
Cost Optimization & Autopilot
$199
per month
- Unlimited providers, 100 instances (+$2/ea)
- 90-day retention
- Cloud Autopilot placement
- Cost optimization reports
- K8s multi-cluster (5), full migration
- Managed firewall unlimited
- API (100K calls), 10 users
Enterprise
Full Autopilot & Compliance
$599
per month
- 500 instances (+$1.50/ea overage)
- 1-year metric retention
- Full Cloud Autopilot (auto-migrate + optimize)
- Unlimited ODE/K8s/API
- SSO/SAML, on-premise, compliance reports
- Dedicated support, unlimited users
📦 Free ORAS Registry — Every User
Every user gets a free ORAS registry (2 GB private storage). All 1,500+ public images are free and unlimited.
Feature comparison
Detailed breakdown of what's included in each tier. Community is a real product — Pro adds infrastructure power, Enterprise adds operational sophistication.
| Feature | Community | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Container Runtime (Source-Available — AGPSL v5) | |||
| systemd-nspawn + proot containers (18 subcommands) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Networking — bridges, nftables, DNS, VLANs (19 subcommands) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security profiles — Landlock, seccomp, cgroups (5 profiles, 18+ audit checks) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Performance tuning — 5 profiles, CPU/mem/IO/net (18 subcommands) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Constellations (compose) — stack management (14 subcommands) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
volt import docker:// |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| .vbundle air-gapped deployment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Unified volt ps + journalctl logs |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Volumes & images management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Containers per node | 100 | 1,000 | Unlimited |
| Storage (Source-Available — AGPSL v5) | |||
| Stellarium CAS — local dedup, TinyVol assembly, GC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Stardust VMM — Micro-VMs via volt vm (Pro) | |||
| Stardust — standalone Rust microVMM (KVM-based) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sub-millisecond VM snapshot/restore | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| VM pool & warm pools | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMP 1–255 vCPUs, seccomp, 4 network backends | — | ✓ | ✓ |
Hybrid Workloads — via volt workload (Pro) | |||
| hybrid-native (Landlock + seccomp + cgroups, no VM overhead) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| hybrid-kvm (QEMU + /dev/kvm, near-native, any x86 OS) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| hybrid-emulated (QEMU TCG, any architecture) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Container ↔ hybrid toggle (CAS snapshot/restore, 5-phase) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pro Standalone Tools | |||
| Frogger — database branching (15K lines, standalone) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support & License | |||
| Community support (Discord / GitHub) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email support (48h SLA) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Priority support (4h SLA) + Dedicated Slack | — | — | ✓ |
| Grace period on expiration | 0 days | 14 days | 30 days |
| 🗺️ Roadmap (Planned — Not Yet Available) | |||
| CAS CDN pull/push (remote distribution) | Planned | ||
| Distributed CAS — cross-node dedup & replication | Planned | ||
| Cluster management & scheduling | Planned | ||
| Scale-to-zero (Volt Edge) | Planned | ||
| Live VM migration | Planned | ||
| Encryption (LUKS, BYOK, HSM) | Planned | ||
| Rolling / canary / blue-green deployments | Planned | ||
| Cicada (CI/CD) | Planned | ||
| Mesh networking | Planned | ||
| SSO, RBAC, audit logging, compliance, SBOM | Planned | ||
| Vulnerability scanning | Planned | ||
| GPU passthrough & auto-scaling | Planned | ||
🏛️ Partner Program
Nonprofit Partner Program
Qualifying nonprofits receive free Pro tier — unlimited nodes, 1,000 containers per node, all Pro features. Because infrastructure shouldn't be a barrier to mission.
Eligibility
- Non-commercial owned nonprofit organization
- 501(c)(3) determination letter (or international equivalent)
- Leadership confirmation of purpose served
- Independent verification by ArmoredGate
Obligations
- Agree to periodic visits (physical or virtual)
- Maintain ongoing communication and contact
- Maintain good standing as a nonprofit
- Subject to annual review at ArmoredGate's discretion
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Enterprise needs? A future "Enterprise Public Benefit" tier is planned.
Need dedicated support & unlimited scale?
Combine Volt Platform Enterprise with VoltVisor Cloud Enterprise for the full stack — unified management, maximum isolation, complete compliance.
4h SLA Support
Dedicated Slack
Unlimited Containers
Live VM Migration
SSO/SAML & Compliance
Frequently asked questions
Running workloads are never killed by license expiration. After your grace period (14 days for Pro, 30 days for Enterprise), you enter degraded mode: existing containers and VMs continue running, but you can't start new ones. Renew your license to restore full functionality.
No catch. Community is a real product, not a demo. The free pre-compiled binary gives you basic container lifecycle, CAS operations, security audit, and basic networking — with no time limits, no credit card, and no usage tracking. The limit is 100 containers per node. The entire Volt codebase is source-available under AGPSL v5 — you can read every line at code.armoredgate.com.
You pay for each node (physical or virtual machine) where Volt is installed and licensed. Community nodes are free. Pro and Enterprise are priced per node per month. You can mix tiers — run Community on dev nodes and Pro on production, for example.
License keys follow the format
VOLT-{TIER}-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX (e.g., VOLT-PRO-FB05-5D46-35A8-6767-AB8F-BD4C). Keys are issued by the Licensing API and signed with Ed25519 for tamper-proof verification.
Yes. Upgrades take effect immediately. Downgrades take effect at the end of your current billing period. If you downgrade from Enterprise to Pro, your container limit changes from unlimited to 1,000 per node, but your workloads will keep running.
The entire Volt codebase — CLI, Stellarium CAS, Stardust VMM, hybrid workloads, and Frogger — is source-available under AGPSL v5. You can read, audit, and inspect every line of code that runs on your infrastructure. The Community binary is free with a limited feature set; Pro/Enterprise license keys unlock the full CLI and additional capabilities. A small number of closed-source binaries (Volt Edge, Small File Packing) are separately licensed as proprietary. Nothing in Volt is "open source" — AGPSL v5 is a source-available license with anti-competition protections.