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Kubernetes

Free control plane. Clusters from €7.99/month.

Managed Kubernetes on the same plans and hourly prices as our Cloud VMs. Create a cluster from the console, from your scripts, or let your AI agent do it for you.Control plane included · up to 5 autoscaling node pools · HA control plane €30/month · engineers on support 24/7

Get StartedCreate a Cluster
Control plane
Freewith every cluster

The API server, etcd and the scheduler run on our side, and our team looks after them.

  • No charge per cluster or per hour
  • Kubernetes 1.35, 1.34 or 1.33
  • A kubeconfig whenever you need one
Worker nodes
from€7.99a month per node

Cloud VM prices, billed by the hour and capped at the plan's monthly price.

  • General Purpose, CPU-Optimized and Memory-Optimized plans
  • Each worker boots from its plan's NVMe disk
  • Mix plans across node pools
See every worker plan
HA control plane
€30a month, optional

Billed by the hour. For production clusters that must keep their API up through the loss of a machine.

  • etcd runs as a three-member quorum
  • Spread across separate machines
  • Turn it on at creation or later
DigitalOcean charges $40 and Akamai $60 for theirs.

What a Cluster Costs

The control plane is free, so a cluster costs what its workers cost. Three common shapes:

  • Try it
    1 × G-1 worker
    1 vCPU · 4 GB · 60 GB NVMe
    €7.99a month
  • Production
    3 × G-2 workers
    2 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB NVMe each
    €44.97a month
  • Production with HA
    3 × G-2 workers + HA control plane
    The same workers, with a control plane that survives a lost machine
    €74.97a month

Prices exclude VAT, with the control plane included. Workers the autoscaler adds are billed only for the hours they run. The HA control plane is billed by the hour, €30 in an average month.

Create a Cluster Your Way

Pick a version and your node pools in the console, send the same request to the API, or ask your AI agent. Then get a kubeconfig and use kubectl as you always do.

# brew install rarecloudio/tap/rarecloud
rarecloud auth login

# A one-hour admin kubeconfig for your cluster
rarecloud server kubeconfig CLUSTER_ID -f prod.yaml

export KUBECONFIG=$PWD/prod.yaml
kubectl get nodes

Your agent can create a cluster, add node pools, change the autoscaling range and get a kubeconfig. It reads the price first, and anything that costs money or rolls your nodes runs only after you confirm it. Give it a token with only the permissions it needs.

Read the API referenceSet up the MCP serverInstall the CLI

Included With Every Cluster

A managed control plane, current Kubernetes and autoscaling node pools, at no charge beyond the workers.

Managed Control Plane
The API server, etcd and the scheduler run on our side, and our team keeps them running. They cost nothing: you pay for the workers.
Current Kubernetes
Choose 1.35.6, 1.34.9 or 1.33.13. New clusters get the newest unless you pick another. Your manifests, Helm charts and kubectl work as they do anywhere.
Autoscaling Node Pools
Up to five pools per cluster, each with its own plan and a range of 1 to 16 nodes. Workers are added when pods need room and removed when they do not.
Kubeconfig on Demand
Get a kubeconfig from the console, the API or the CLI. Issue named admin or view-only ones for CI and dashboards, and revoke any of them at once.
Private Networking
Workers share a private network of their own, with Cilium connecting pods across nodes. Only the Services you expose face the internet.
Upstream Kubernetes
Clusters are built by Gardener, the open-source Kubernetes manager, with no fork. Your YAML, Helm charts and Argo CD apps run here as they run anywhere.
Self-Healing Nodes
A worker that stops responding is replaced, and the pool goes back to the size you set. Your pods reschedule as on any Kubernetes cluster.
Load Balancers and Volumes
A Service of type LoadBalancer gets its own load balancer with a public IP. A PersistentVolumeClaim gets a block volume that keeps its data when pods move.

Works With the Rest of the Cloud

Your clusters share an account, a console and a monthly invoice with the rest of our cloud. Each piece has a published price, shown before you create it.

Load Balancers

L4, one stable IP

A stable public address for a Service of type LoadBalancer, or in front of your own servers.

€9/mo with its public IP

See Load Balancers

Block Storage

Volumes

Persistent volumes for your pods, and disks for your servers, that keep their data apart from any node.

€0.05 per GB a month

See Block Storage

Cloud VM

Hourly cloud servers

Standalone servers on the same plans, plus the Cost-Optimized family for small jobs. Ready in less than a minute.

From €3.99/mo

See Cloud VM

Object Storage

S3-compatible

Buckets for backups, media and static files, used with the S3 tools you already know.

€10/mo with 1 TB

See Object Storage

Billed by the Hour

Every worker is metered from the moment it is created until it is removed, and its charge for the month stops at its plan's monthly price. Try a one-node cluster for a weekend and you pay for the weekend. Usage goes on one monthly invoice with the rest of your cloud, and the credit on your account pays it automatically. Pay by card, PayPal, Alipay, crypto or bank transfer, in EUR or USD.

How cloud billing works

Region
Our European cloud region, in Bucharest, inside the EU. More regions in Europe and the US are planned.
Support
24/7. Engineers answer the tickets.
Invoices
From Rare Mood Agency SRL (RareCloud), with EU VAT, in EUR or USD.

Questions Before You Create a Cluster

Is the control plane really free?
Yes. Every cluster gets a managed control plane at no charge, whether you run one worker or fifty. You pay for the worker nodes, and for a load balancer, volumes or the HA control plane only if you add them.
What does a cluster cost?
The control plane is free, so a cluster costs what its workers cost, at Cloud VM prices. One G-1 worker is €7.99 a month. Three G-2 workers are €44.97 a month, and €74.97 with the HA control plane in an average month. Each worker is billed by the hour, and its charge for a month stops at its plan's monthly price. The console shows the price before you create the cluster.
Which Kubernetes versions do you offer?
Today 1.35.6, 1.34.9 and 1.33.13. A new cluster gets the newest one unless you choose another. The console and GET /v1/catalog/kubernetes-versions always list the current versions.
How does autoscaling bill?
Each node pool has a minimum and a maximum, from 1 to 16 nodes. When pods need room, the cluster adds workers up to the maximum, and it removes them when they are no longer needed. You pay for the hours each worker exists, so an extra worker for a ten-hour peak costs about €0.21 on a G-2.
What is the HA control plane and when do I need it?
It runs etcd as a three-member quorum spread across separate machines, so the cluster's API keeps answering if one of them fails. Your workloads keep running without it, but for production you may want the API itself to stay up. It costs €30 a month, billed by the hour. You can turn it on when you create the cluster or later. Once it is on, it cannot be turned off for that cluster.
Can I use persistent storage?
Yes. A PersistentVolumeClaim gets a block volume that keeps its data when a pod moves to another node, billed at €0.05 per GB a month like any other volume. For files and backups that many pods read, use Object Storage from the same account.
What do you manage, and what do I manage?
We run the control plane (the API server, etcd and the scheduler), the worker machines and the network between them. You manage what runs on the cluster: your workloads, Helm charts, ingress controller and the size of your node pools.
Can my AI agent manage clusters?
Yes. With the RareCloud MCP server, an agent can create a cluster, add node pools, change their autoscaling range and get a kubeconfig. Anything that costs money or rolls your nodes runs only after you confirm it. Give the agent a token with only the permissions it needs.
Can I create clusters with Terraform?
Not yet. The Terraform provider manages servers, volumes, networks, load balancers and object storage. Create clusters from the console, the API or the MCP server, then point Terraform's Kubernetes and Helm providers at the cluster's kubeconfig.
Do I get VAT invoices?
Yes. Invoices come from Rare Mood Agency SRL (RareCloud), in EUR or USD, with EU VAT. Businesses in another EU country with a valid VAT ID are invoiced under the reverse charge.

Your First Cluster from €7.99 a Month

Free control plane, workers billed by the hour, on the plans you already know.

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