Free Trial
A self-supported OpenShift Dedicated trial uses the customer's Google Cloud account; the customer pays infrastructure and data-transfer costs.
- OpenShift Dedicated trial cluster: 1 cluster with up to 40 worker vCPUs for 60 days
Red Hat OpenShift Pricing, Features & Alternatives
Containerized applications on Kubernetes across self-managed, managed cloud, bare-metal, and virtualized infrastructure.
Red Hat OpenShift is a Kubernetes application platform available in self-managed and managed cloud deployments. It adds application delivery, cluster management, and enterprise support to Kubernetes, with infrastructure and operational responsibility depending on the selected offering. The scaling, revision, preview, and traffic controls in this profile require OpenShift Serverless/Knative; scale-to-zero reduces application replicas, not the cluster. Scale-to-zero requires KPA. Zero-downtime rollout requires suitable replica counts, readiness checks, and compatible application behavior.
Best for
Enterprises that need a supported Kubernetes application platform spanning on-premises infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud, edge locations, virtual machines, containers, and regulated environments.
Watch out for
OpenShift adds platform capabilities, security defaults, lifecycle management, operators, and enterprise support on top of Kubernetes, but also adds subscription cost, cluster complexity, opinionated administration, and Red Hat-specific operational knowledge.
- Workloads
- APIs
- Backend Services
- Background Workers
- Data Processing
- Scheduled Jobs
- Web Applications
- Services
- Functions
- Delivery
- Managed
- Self-Hosted
- BYOC
Development & Execution
Supported platform capabilities, execution environments, development technologies, deployment models, integrations, and triggers.
Runtimes
- Custom Runtime
- .NET Runtime
- JVM
- Node.js
Languages
- C#
- Go
- Java
- JavaScript
- Kotlin
- PHP
- Python
- Ruby
- Rust
- TypeScript
Frameworks
- Astro
- Django
- Express.js
- Fastify
- Laravel
- Next.js
- Nuxt
- Remix
- Ruby on Rails
- Spring Boot
- SvelteKit
Capabilities
- Compute Autoscaling
- Scale to Zero
- Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
- Deployment Rollbacks
- Deployment Traffic Splitting
- Preview Environments
Architecture
- x64
- ARM
- GPU
GPU vendors
- AMD
- NVIDIA
Deployment & packaging
- Bare metal / VM
- Docker / OCI
- Kubernetes
- Local Emulator
Integrations
- Datadog
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Terraform
Triggers
- Scheduled Invocation
- Database Events
- Event Streams
- Publish-Subscribe Topics
- HTTP Requests
- Queue Messages
- Storage Events
Pricing
Published pricing structure, representative costs, and material billing factors.
- Starting Price
- $0.171
- Primary Billing
- Resource based
- Free Trial
- A self-supported OpenShift Dedicated trial uses the customer's Google Cloud account; the customer pays infrastructure and data-transfer costs.
- Commitment
- OpenShift Dedicated worker subscriptions are billed annually
OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud
Primary PricingPublic worker-node CPU subscription equivalents for Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated managed by Red Hat on Google Cloud; underlying cloud costs are separate.
| Resource | Billing Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| OpenShift Dedicated worker CPU | per 4 vCPU-hour | $0.171 |
Billing Commitment
OpenShift Dedicated worker subscriptions are billed annually; public hourly equivalents vary by commitment, while Google Cloud infrastructure and data-transfer costs remain separate.
Infrastructure & Availability
Where workloads run, how deployment is scoped, and what underlying infrastructure the platform depends on.
Managed OpenShift offerings maintain service-specific region inventories, while self-managed OpenShift runs in customer-controlled infrastructure. srvrlss keeps those two availability models separate without publishing a misleading combined managed-region total.
Managed OpenShift services
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift Dedicated on AWS and Google Cloud, and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud each maintain their own supported-region inventory. This profile does not merge them into one managed-region total or table.
Applies to
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift
- OpenShift Dedicated on AWS
- OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud
- Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
Deployment model
- Managed cloud
Deployment scope
- Regional
Infrastructure providers
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Other
- IBM Cloud
Self-managed OpenShift
Self-managed OpenShift can run in customer-selected public clouds, virtualized environments, bare metal, private clouds, and edge infrastructure. Geography and topology are determined by the customer's environment.
Applies to
- Self-managed OpenShift
Deployment model
- Self-managed
Placement
- Customer-Controlled
Infrastructure providers
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Other
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- VMware vSphere
- Nutanix
- Customer-operated bare-metal, private-cloud, and edge infrastructure
Availability reviewed
Security & Compliance
Security Controls
- Access Control
- RBAC with built-in OAuth server OpenShift Container Platform; cluster administrator configures identity providers, roles, and bindings
- Audit Logging
- Kubernetes API server audit profiles OpenShift Container Platform; cluster administrator configures policy and retention
- Encryption at Rest
- etcd data encryption OpenShift Container Platform; cluster administrator enables and manages the configuration
- Encryption in Transit
- TLS security profiles OpenShift Container Platform endpoints and components; cluster administrator configuration applies
- Network Isolation
- NetworkPolicy and egress controls OpenShift Container Platform; isolation depends on cluster-admin policy configuration
Audits & Certifications
- CSA STAR
- Level 2 OpenShift Dedicated on AWS/GCP and ROSA/hosted-control-plane managed services; excludes self-managed OpenShift Container Platform
- Health Data Hosting (HDS)
- OpenShift Dedicated on AWS/GCP and ROSA/hosted-control-plane managed services; French health-data hosting scope
- ISO Certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018 OpenShift Dedicated on AWS/GCP and ROSA/hosted-control-plane managed services; excludes self-managed OpenShift Container Platform
- PCI DSS
- v4.0.1 OpenShift Dedicated on AWS/GCP and ROSA/hosted-control-plane managed services; excludes self-managed OpenShift Container Platform
- SOC Reports
- SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3 OpenShift Dedicated on AWS/GCP and ROSA/hosted-control-plane managed services; excludes self-managed OpenShift Container Platform
Compliance
- FedRAMP
- High ROSA with hosted control planes in AWS GovCloud; Rev 5 Agency ATO; excludes commercial and self-managed OpenShift
- HIPAA
- Eligible use OpenShift Dedicated customer-cloud subscriptions and ROSA Classic/HCP v4; Red Hat BAA required
FAQ
Is OpenShift the same as Kubernetes?
No. Kubernetes is the open source container orchestration engine underneath OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift builds a broader application platform around Kubernetes with integrated capabilities such as networking, monitoring, security, and developer tooling.
Is Red Hat OpenShift free?
Not as a permanent managed free plan. Red Hat offers a time-limited OpenShift Dedicated trial, but the trial runs in the customer’s Google Cloud account and infrastructure and transfer costs remain separate.
