Platform / Pricing
PRICING
Choose a product line. The Stack8s Research tab reuses the AiK Cloud tier matrix and adds institute-oriented framing below; other product lines use short engagement panels.
Two tiers—Professional on public cloud and Enterprise on sovereign cloud—with transparent limits and feature parity where it matters.
Figures reflect the 2026 AiK Cloud tier sheet. Support add-ons and environment-specific fees may apply—see rows below or talk to us.
Public cloud
Managed HA control plane and masters (workers billed separately). Ideal for platform teams standardising on pooled multi-cloud capacity.
Sovereign cloud
Sovereign deployments, private mesh, hybrid pooling, and unlimited scale—aligned to regulated and TRE-style programmes.
Comparison matrix
| Capability | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
Recommended for | Growth and staging | Enterprise setups (SOVEREIGN AI) |
Platform / month | $500 / mo | Starting from $5000 / mo |
Per user | FREE | $250 |
Control plane | stack8s managed | Optional self-managed paths |
GPU / Compute Providers Included | YES | YES |
AikCloud licence | Call to discuss | |
Environments (clusters) | 1 | Unlimited |
Projects per environment | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Stacks per project | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Max nodes per environment | 50 | Unlimited |
Cost per node after 5 nodes / mo | $50 / node | Custom (see estimator) |
On-prem per node (VM or bare metal) | Not included | $350 / node / mo |
Multi-cloud pooling (30+ clouds) | Included | Included |
BYOC (cloud credits) | Included | Included |
BYOK (EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, …) | Not included | Included |
Hybrid on-prem pooling | Not included | Included |
Private network mesh (AiKCord) — sovereign | Not included | Included |
GPU support | Not included | Included |
Network egress (free allowance) | 20 TB | Unlimited |
Uptime target | 99.9% | 99.99% |
MLOps | Included | Included |
GitOps | Included | Included |
RBAC | Included | Included |
OAuth (incl. AD integration) | Included | Included |
Container Deployment | Included | Included |
Cron Jobs | Included | Included |
Deploy own Helm charts | Included | Included |
Marketplace - AI Models | Included | Included |
Marketplace - Vector DBs | Included | Included |
Marketplace - Databases | Included | Included |
Backups | Included | Included |
Analytics | Included | Included |
Marketplace | Included | Included |
Vendor migration toolkit | Not included | Included |
Support cost per environment | See agreement | See agreement |
Response time | 24 hours | Team SLA (TBD) |
Analytics / AI-ML support | $150 / hr | Team / TBD |
Primary channel | Slack + email | |
Volume backups | Not included | Included |
SOC 2 + GDPR + Cyber Essentials | On-demand materials | Included |
ISO 27001 | In progress | In progress |
HIPAA | In progress | In progress |
DORA | In progress | In progress |
CTEC (Middle East) | In progress | In progress |