Introduction
Editions
What each Kaiten edition includes — Community Edition, the Kaiten Cloud tiers, and Standalone — across the full capability matrix.
Kaiten ships in three hosting models: self-hosted (the open-source Community Edition), Kaiten Cloud (managed, shared infrastructure), and dedicated (Standalone, on your infrastructure). Across them, five editions:
| Edition | Hosting | How you get it |
|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | Self-hosted (open source, Apache-2.0) | Self-serve — clone and run |
| Cloud Starter | Kaiten Cloud (shared) | Self-serve, no card |
| Cloud Growth | Kaiten Cloud (shared) | Self-serve, monthly or annual |
| Cloud Enterprise | Kaiten Cloud (shared) | Sales-assisted, annual |
| Standalone | Dedicated — customer VPC | Sales-led, annual contract |
Unlimited on every edition, never billed: console seats, instances, and flag & entitlement evaluations. Agents and service accounts never consume a seat. Kaiten's scaling metric is the number of customers you manage.
Every figure — prices, quota values, overage rates, SLA levels — lives in one place: kaiten.sh/pricing.
Reading the matrix: ✓ included · — not included · Add-on available as a paid extension · Coming soon on the roadmap, not yet in the product. Where a quota applies, the cell shows ✓ and the pricing page carries the value. Community Edition quotas are informative only — the stack is yours, self-hosted under Apache-2.0, and Kaiten enforces nothing in it.
Core platform
| Capability | Community | Starter | Growth | Enterprise | Standalone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REST + GraphQL API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenFeature / OFREP endpoints | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| React console | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MCP server Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BYO-ID mapping | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Code generation from your catalog Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SDKs — Go, Python, TypeScript | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| React SDK Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Embedded components (React) Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom domain Coming soon | Self-hosted (n/a) | — | Add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
Commercial catalog
| Capability | Community | Starter | Growth | Enterprise | Standalone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entitlements engine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Entitlement groups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Licenses in catalog | Not enforced | ✓ | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Native billing Coming soon | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| External billing engine adapter Coming soon | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vouchers Coming soon | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add-ons Coming soon | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Licenses in catalog counts License families — products. A new version of a family never counts against it.
Feature delivery
| Capability | Community | Starter | Growth | Enterprise | Standalone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feature flags engine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CEL targeting rules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Releases & components | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deployment zones | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature entity & lifecycle Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature tracking filters Coming soon | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature analytics Coming soon | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public feature catalog Coming soon | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Usage & metering
| Capability | Community | Starter | Growth | Enterprise | Standalone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seats · instances · evaluations | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Managed customers | Not enforced | ✓ | ✓ | Committed blocks | Unlimited |
| Metering events & API calls ingested Coming soon | Not enforced | ✓ | ✓ | Committed volume | Not billed |
| Guaranteed API throughput Coming soon | Not enforced | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Unlimited |
| Threshold alerting | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Activity alerting Coming soon | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI Control Plane
| Capability | Community | Starter | Growth | Enterprise | Standalone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Cost & Usage dashboard Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Control Plane Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Embedded AI assistance credits Coming soon | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Integrations
| Capability | Community | Starter | Growth | Enterprise | Standalone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outbound webhooks | —¹ | ✓ | ✓ | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Native connectors (CRM) | Not enforced² | ✓ | ✓ | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Data exporter (Snowflake / BigQuery / Databricks / S3) Coming soon | — | — | Add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
| SQL explorer Coming soon | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bidirectional CRM sync Coming soon | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AWS Marketplace deployment Coming soon | — | — | Add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
¹ The Community Edition consumes the event stream directly from its own stack — managed webhook delivery is a Kaiten Cloud capability. On Kaiten Cloud it is carried by the License: the webhooks entitlement is a monthly allowance of published events, the webhooks routes are served where your organization's License grants some, and they answer 403 where it grants none — managing endpoints.
² Connectors ship inside the Kaiten binary — the Attio connector today — and stay inert until an organization activates them and stores a key. A connector that names an entitlement is activated only where the organization's License grants it; the Attio connector names none — it is included in every License — so no License check refuses its activation, on Kaiten Cloud or on a self-hosted stack.
Sovereignty
| Capability | Community | Starter | Growth | Enterprise | Standalone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Shared | Shared | Shared — Add-on: Dedicated | Dedicated (customer VPC) |
| Kaiten Edge (offline / air-gapped) Coming soon | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kubernetes Operator (read-only) Coming soon | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Signed audit bundles Coming soon | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
Standalone's differentiator is the isolation itself: your infrastructure, nothing shared, no event volume billed. The sovereignty tooling — Kaiten Edge, the Kubernetes Operator, signed audit bundles — is on the roadmap, planned from Cloud Enterprise up.
Governance & security
| Capability | Community | Starter | Growth | Enterprise | Standalone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audit trail | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit retention limits Coming soon | Not enforced | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom metadata fields | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service accounts & API tokens | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO (SAML) Coming soon | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| RBAC Coming soon | — | — | Add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
| Skills registry access Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Support & SLA
| Community | Starter | Growth | Enterprise | Standalone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Community (GitHub, Discord) | Community | Standard (email + Slack, business hours) | Priority 24/7 + dedicated CSM | Priority 24/7 + named TAM |
| Uptime SLA | — (self-hosted) | Best-effort | ✓ | ✓ | Custom (MSA) |
Contractual SLA levels, quota values, and every price: kaiten.sh/pricing.