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Based on your pricing page, those helm charts cost "call us" money to use. Am I reading that right?

It's AGPL. If you do not need any enterprise feature like SSO, you do not need to "call us", it's free. But if you fork it and re-expose it to users, you will need to make your fork open-source.

Our business model is that we are the only ones that can grant a commercial license because we hold the copyright and we provide plugins that only make sense at the enterprise scale such as SSO and exportable audit logs.

So in a sense, if you are an enterprise and need to pay us, what is the difference ? Well you can audit the code and experiment with it prior to deciding if you'd like to pursue with us, and not have to go through a salesy pitch to self-host and stress-test our orchestration runtime.

The entire idea of “call us” about pricing screams of something you see from Oracle. That’s not a compliment by the way.

I do not know if your commented was targeted at Windmill or Airplane but our pricing is very clear and upfront. It's 10$/mo/user for the premium hosted version. You can read the code, use and self-host the product freely and without our blessing. The enterprise contract is a call us because that's how enterprise contracts work, they need complex agreement with various clauses.

I was basing my comment on the comment that you replied to:

Based on your pricing page, those helm charts cost "call us" money to use. Am I reading that right?

I couldn’t tell from your reply whether you were explicitly correcting him.

But it’s clear now, that I made a bad assumption about your pricing.

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