Community free forever. Business and Enterprise with public pricing. No retroactive term changes. No surprise license switches. No mandatory phone-home.
Everything the cluster does. No server limit, no job limit, no artificial feature gates.
For teams with formal platform requirements. Everything in Community, plus enterprise-ready features.
For organisations that need contractual continuity and deep support engagement.
Server = a Linux node running the HeroCtl agent. A $5/month VPS counts as 1 server.
Prices in USD for international customers, billed monthly via card or invoice. Brazilian customers can opt into BRL invoicing (NF-e). Exchange rate frozen at contract signing — no FX adjustments.
| Feature | Community | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real HA cluster (3+ nodes) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Router + automatic certificates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service-to-service encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in metrics and logs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rolling/canary/blue-green/rainbow deploys | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Server limit | Unlimited | 10 | Unlimited |
| Job limit | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| SSO (SAML/OIDC) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Granular RBAC | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Detailed audit log | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managed backups | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support channel | Discord community | Email + private Slack | Slack + phone |
| Support SLA | — | 4h business hours | 1h 24×7 |
| Source-code escrow | — | — | ✓ |
| Continuity contract | — | — | ✓ |
| On-site training | — | — | 4h/quarter |
| BRL invoicing (NF-e) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
No. You can run as many Linux servers with Docker as you want, with as many jobs as you want. No artificial feature gates — every cluster feature (HA, router, certificates, metrics, logs) is in Community.
Because mandatory "contact sales" is hostile. You should be able to decide if Business fits your budget without booking a call. Prices are frozen for the duration of an existing contract — no retroactive changes.
Yes. You can embed HeroCtl in your product, offer hosting on top of it, or sell SaaS running on it — no additional licensing required.
In Community, the binary keeps working — no phone-home, no kill-switch. In Enterprise, the source-code escrow contract delivers source to paying customers via a third-party custodian, so you can keep maintaining the platform internally.
Yes. The support team works in Brazilian business hours (UTC−3) and replies in English or Portuguese. Business SLA is 4h during BR business hours; Enterprise is 1h, 24×7.
Yes. Startups under 24 months old with ARR below US$400k get 50% off Business. Non-profits and educational institutions get Business free (subject to review). Email business@heroctl.com.
30-day trial with all Business features active. No credit card, no mandatory sales call. Request via business@heroctl.com.
Full HA cluster, free forever, no feature gates. When you need SSO or audit logs, upgrade to Business — no rewrite required.