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Take Full Control of Your Storage.

Download and run every feature for free. For production, add a commercial license and enterprise support.

Enterprise is a fraction of your Red Hat® OpenShift® subscription, counted the same way.

Pricing
Self-Supported

The full simplyblock software at no cost, run and supported by your own team. Every feature included.

Free

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Included

  • Every simplyblock feature, including disaster recovery and replication
  • No capacity or node limits
  • Runs on your hardware: on-prem, private cloud, or air-gapped
  • Self-operated by your platform team
  • Community support via GitHub Discussions and the docs
Community support on GitHub Discussions Documentation
Enterprise

The same software, licensed and supported for production.

Subscription

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Included

  • Commercial license for production use
  • Enterprise support with SLAs
  • Dedicated technical account manager
  • Onboarding, sizing, and deployment assistance
  • Priced by worker-node CPU, control-plane and infra nodes free
  • Fixed price for the term, annual or multi-year
Self-Supported

The full simplyblock software at no cost, run and supported by your own team. Every feature included.

Free

Download for Free

Included

  • Every simplyblock feature, including disaster recovery and replication
  • No capacity or node limits
  • Runs on your hardware: on-prem, private cloud, or air-gapped
  • Self-operated by your platform team
  • Community support via GitHub Discussions and the docs
Enterprise

The same software, licensed and supported for production.

Subscription

Talk to Us

Included

  • Commercial license for production use
  • Enterprise support with SLAs
  • Dedicated technical account manager
  • Onboarding, sizing, and deployment assistance
  • Priced by worker-node CPU, control-plane and infra nodes free
  • Fixed price for the term, annual or multi-year

A fraction of your OpenShift spend, with fewer drives

Enterprise adds a fraction of your OpenShift subscription, counted the same way: by the CPU capacity of your worker nodes. Data volume, features and replication do not change the price. And because simplyblock protects data with erasure coding instead of replication, the same capacity needs far fewer drives.

TransparentA fraction of your OpenShift subscription, counted the same way by worker-node CPU. One rate, one line item.
FairEverything included. No add-ons for DR or backup, no charge for control-plane or infra nodes. Data volume does not change the price.
Easy to budgetYour OpenShift worker count is your simplyblock unit count. Fixed for the term, and it grows only when your cluster grows.
Your hardware, no lock-inStandard x86 servers, NVMe over TCP, open and software-defined.

Same capacity, half the drives: fewer nodes to license

3× replication typical software-defined storage 3.0× raw
simplyblock 4+2 erasure coding 1.5× raw

Same usable capacity and fault tolerance, roughly half the drives. Thin provisioning and inline compression reduce the footprint further, per workload.

Included in Self-Supported and Enterprise

Disaster recovery, built in.

  • Asynchronous replication between clusters with RPOs down to one minute
  • Synchronous (metro) replication across sites with zero RPO
  • Live migration of running volumes between clusters
  • Backup and restore to any S3-compatible object store

Included in the simplyblock platform, not a separately licensed DR product.

See disaster recovery

VMware Migration

Complete VMware Replacement Stack

Virtualization + storage in one commercially supported package. Replace vSphere and vSAN without stitching together separate vendors.

Immutable OS + Storage

Simplyblock + Talos

Secure, immutable Kubernetes platform with NVMe-native storage. Replaces VMware compute and vSAN in one hardened, API-driven stack, with KubeVirt for virtualization workloads.

  • Talos Linux: immutable, API-only Kubernetes nodes
  • NVMe-over-TCP persistent storage with CSI
  • KubeVirt virtualization support
  • One commercial package with deployment support
See Talos Bundle
Multi-Cluster Ops + Storage

Simplyblock + Rancher

Full Kubernetes management platform with production-grade storage. Covers cluster operations, persistent volumes, and VMware migration workflows, procured through simplyblock.

  • Rancher: centralized multi-cluster Kubernetes management
  • CSI-based persistent volumes with NVMe performance
  • Snapshot, backup, and recovery workflows
  • Rancher available through simplyblock as one package
See Rancher Bundle

Serverless Postgres

Vela: Serverless Postgres on Kubernetes

Built on simplyblock storage, Vela delivers on-demand Postgres with sub-second provisioning, instant clones, and per-branch database isolation. No storage management required.

Talk to Us About Vela Learn About Branching

Self-Supported vs. Enterprise

Same software, every feature in both. Enterprise adds the commercial license, support, and onboarding.

Self-Supported Enterprise
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Price

What you pay for the software

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License

How simplyblock is licensed to you

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Support

Who helps when something goes wrong

 Support 		Community (GitHub, docs) Enterprise, with SLAs
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Dedicated Technical Account Manager

A named contact who knows your environment

 Dedicated Technical Account Manager 		Included in Enterprise
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Onboarding and Deployment Assistance

Help with sizing, installation, and going live

 Onboarding and Deployment Assistance 		Included in Enterprise
Software (Identical in Both)
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Deployed in Your Environment

The storage cluster is installed in your private cloud or on-prem environment

 Deployed in Your Environment 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Multi Tenant

You can share the storage cluster between multiple tenants

 Multi Tenant 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Copy-On-Write Volumes

Copy-on-write (COW) is an optimization technique used in computer programming and data management

 Copy-On-Write Volumes 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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NVMe/TCP Volumes

High-performance storage devices that use the NVMe over standard TCP/IP networks

 NVMe/TCP Volumes 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Data Distribution

Data distribution is the process of spreading data across multiple storage nodes to improve performance, reliability, and scalability of a storage system

 Data Distribution 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Storage Overcommitment

Storage overcommitment is allocating more virtual storage capacity to users than is physically available, relying on typical underutilization of provisioned resources

 Storage Overcommitment 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Thin Provisioning

Thin provisioning allows creating logical volumes larger than available physical storage, allocating actual space only when data is written

 Thin Provisioning 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Instant Snapshots

Instant snapshots are point-in-time copies of data created instantly without duplicating the entire dataset, using copy-on-write technology

 Instant Snapshots 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Local Clones

Local clones are instant, space-efficient copies of volumes that share data with the original until modifications occur, enabled by copy-on-write technology

 Local Clones 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Encryption

Encryption prevents unauthorized access to data, enabling individual encryption keys per volume

 Encryption 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Online Resizing

Online resizing allows storage volumes to be expanded or shrunk without disrupting service, while simplyblock remains operational and accessible

 Online Resizing 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Zero Downtime Scalability

Zero downtime scalability allows simplyblock to expand capacity or performance without interrupting service, ensuring continuous availability during growth or increased demand

 Zero Downtime Scalability 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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High Availability

High availability is a system design approach that ensures simplyblock remains operational and accessible with minimal downtime or interruptions

 High Availability 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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QoS Policy

QoS policy defines rules to manage volume traffic priorities, IOPS, and throughput, ensuring critical data flows receive necessary resources while limiting less important traffic

 QoS Policy 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Management UI

The management UI is a graphical interface for administrators to monitor, configure, and control simplyblock's storage resources and operations

 Management UI 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Multi Attach

Multi-attach allows a single storage volume to be connected to multiple compute instances simultaneously, improving availability and resource utilization

 Multi Attach 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Asynchronous Replication (Cross-Cluster)

Asynchronous replication copies volumes to a second simplyblock cluster with recovery point objectives down to one minute, for disaster recovery across sites

 Asynchronous Replication (Cross-Cluster) 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Synchronous Metro Replication (Stretch Cluster)

Synchronous replication writes every I/O to two sites before acknowledging it, giving a zero recovery point objective across a metro distance

 Synchronous Metro Replication (Stretch Cluster) 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Live Volume Migration Across Clusters

Live volume migration moves a running volume to another simplyblock cluster without stopping the workload attached to it

 Live Volume Migration Across Clusters 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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S3 Backup and Restore

Backup and restore volumes to and from any S3-compatible object store, on-prem or in a public cloud

 S3 Backup and Restore 		Included in Self-Supported Included in Enterprise
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Private Cloud

See how simplyblock fits OpenShift, Kubernetes, and private-cloud teams modernizing storage and virtualization.

See Private Cloud

Questions about sizing or pricing

Unsure how simplyblock pricing maps to your platform, a deployment outside Kubernetes, or your support scope? Get on a call with one of our experts, without any commitment.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything. Self-Supported is the full simplyblock software at no cost, with every feature, including disaster recovery, replication, QoS, and the management UI, with no capacity or node limits. You run it on your own hardware, with community support through GitHub Discussions and the documentation.

No. Self-Supported and Enterprise run the same software with the same features. The difference is the commercial license and the support around it: SLAs, a dedicated technical account manager, and help with onboarding and deployment.

We recommend Enterprise once simplyblock runs in production. It adds the commercial license and the support a production system needs: SLAs, a dedicated technical account manager, and help with onboarding. The software stays the same, so the features you tested are the features you run.

As a fraction of your OpenShift subscription, counted the same way: by the CPU capacity of your worker nodes. Control-plane and infra nodes are free. The rate depends on term and volume. Contact us for a quote.

Take the worker-node CPU count from your OpenShift subscription. That is your simplyblock unit count. Multiply it by the rate we quote for your term. There are no other variables.

Data volume and enabled features do not change it. A DR site running simplyblock is licensed like any other cluster. There is no DR surcharge.

No. Asynchronous and synchronous replication, live volume migration, and S3 backup are part of simplyblock in both Self-Supported and Enterprise. There is no separate DR license.

No. VM (KubeVirt and OpenShift Virtualization) and container workloads are covered by the same subscription.

The same principle applies: simplyblock aligns to how your platform is licensed, so the storage line follows the subscription unit you already budget for. Talk to us and we will map it to your platform.

Yes. Simplyblock also runs as a standalone storage layer for hosts outside Kubernetes, for example a virtualization cluster or bare-metal servers connecting over NVMe/TCP. Contact us and we will map the pricing to your environment.

Yes. Enterprise contracts are annual or multi-year, with the price fixed for the term. Longer terms carry better pricing.

Yes. Simplyblock is designed to run on your infrastructure, including private-cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. That makes it suitable for enterprise production environments with operational, security, or data sovereignty requirements.

Thin provisioning lets you allocate ahead of physical capacity, so you add drives as data grows. Volumes can be created at any size without immediately consuming that space, which simplifies capacity planning and improves utilization across your infrastructure.

Yes, simplyblock is natively based on SPDK and NVMe-oF standard, supporting NVMe/TCP protocol. This means that there are no proprietary drivers needed to run simplyblock on your infrastructure - whether on-prem or on public clouds. Simplyblock provides high-performance software defined storage for Kubernetes based on industry standard protocols and standard Ethernet.

Simplyblock runs on standard x86 servers with NVMe drives over standard Ethernet, using NVMe/TCP, or NVMe/RoCE where a lossless fabric is available. It works with any hypervisor or Kubernetes distribution, including OpenShift, and needs no proprietary appliance or special NICs, so there is no hardware lock-in.

Simplyblock protects data with distributed erasure coding rather than replication. A 4+2 scheme stores the same usable capacity at 1.5x raw, versus 3x for three-way replication, which is roughly half the drives for the same fault tolerance, and fewer nodes to license. Thin provisioning and inline compression reduce the footprint further per workload.