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Upbound
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Community | Free to install · open to all | Free |
| Standard | Starting at $1,000/month* · Enhanced Runtime · Official Packages · Spaces · Identity IAM · RBAC · up to 5 control planes · up to 10 team members · basic support | $1,000 a month |
| Enterprise | Custom Pricing · Unlimited team members · unlimited control planes · enterprise security · fleet management · SSO/SAML · enterprise support | On request |
| Business Critical | Custom Pricing · Self-hosted Space, Console and Hub · advanced security · advanced hosting · dedicated support · Upbound Insights add-on | On request |
As upbound.io lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Upbound's own pages
- API and SDK extensibility
- Projects define custom resource APIs, compositions and reusable functions, with language options including KCL, Go and Python. · docs.upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Backup and restore
- Console supports manual backups, scheduled backups and restore operations for control planes. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- CLI
- The Up CLI supports project initialization, API scaffolding, composition functions, local runs, tests, builds and package pushes. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Company founding
- Upbound was founded in 2017. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase lists the legal name as Upbound, Inc. · crunchbase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Console
- Console is a web interface for viewing and managing Upbound products and control planes. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Crossplane foundation
- Upbound is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, a CNCF graduated open-source control-plane framework. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Development tools
- Platform tooling includes control plane projects, IDE integration, unit and end-to-end testing, simulations, and instant development control planes. · upbound.io, 29 Sept 2026
- Documentation depth
- Documentation includes guides, manuals, CLI how-tos, architecture, deployment prerequisites, IAM, production hardening and API references. · docs.upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Fleet visibility
- Upbound Insights provides a live searchable view of resources across connected control planes. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2017 · upbound.io, 28 Sept 2026
- Funding
- Upbound describes itself as a Series B startup backed by GV, Altimeter Capital and Intel Capital, with $69 million raised. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Upbound states that it is headquartered in San Mateo, California. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- The platform offers full self-hosting, including air-gapped deployments, while the Business Critical tier lists self-hosted Space, Console, and Hub. · upbound.io, 29 Sept 2026
- IDE integration
- Upbound provides a VS Code extension that activates in workspaces containing Crossplane packages. · marketplace.visualstudio.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Identity and RBAC
- Upbound IAM provides organization-wide identity and Kubernetes resource-level role-based access control, with viewer, editor and admin roles. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Infrastructure management
- Its control plane framework exposes infrastructure across clouds, vendors, and systems through a programmable API and manages resources to maintain a defined desired state. · docs.upbound.io, 29 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- Upbound Official Providers are pre-built enterprise-supported integrations for AWS, Azure, and GCP. · upbound.io, 29 Sept 2026
- Limit: documentation and support
- A Reddit discussion reports that some users find Upbound documentation weak and professional support slow. · reddit.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: provider access
- Reddit users complain that some provider versions or fixes are restricted to paid Upbound platform tiers and that upgrades can destabilize clusters. · reddit.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Marketplace
- The marketplace supports provider, function, and configuration packages, with public and private listings, repository management, and package documentation. · upbound.io, 29 Sept 2026
- Notable news: Upbound v3
- On August 19, 2026, Upbound announced v3 with fleet-wide governance, Insights, disaster recovery, SBOM/CVE marketplace data and air-gapped self-hosting. · upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Official integrations
- Official Providers supply supported integrations for AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, OpenTofu, Vault and other services. · marketplace.upbound.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Open-source licensing
- The archived Universal Crossplane repository is publicly available under Apache-2.0, but it is deprecated and current UXP development is internal. · github.com, 15 Oct 2026
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