--- title: "Start for Free | Okteto Free Tier" description: "Okteto's free tier: on-demand Kubernetes environments for developers, coding agents and pull requests, Self-Hosted on your cluster, for up to 5 users and 500 environments per month." url: "https://www.okteto.com/free-tier/" source: "https://www.okteto.com" --- # On-demand Kubernetes environments, free for small teams Okteto's free tier gives every developer, coding agent and pull request its own environment on your Kubernetes cluster. Up to 5 users and 500 environments per month, with a one-year license and no credit card needed. ## The world’s leading companies ship tested changes with Okteto [![monday.com](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/ea462ad717901e6307784c09b999fc5922e67241-326x60.svg)](https://www.monday.com/)[![Ruggable](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/07743ed2e7b5c74d050e9d7fd446028c6724e978-500x115.png)](https://ruggable.com/)[![LaunchDarkly](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/2d6933fc1badc391c818660954385ff408aefe84-5682x877.svg)](https://launchdarkly.com/)[![Yotpo](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/fc9a1efb3a171d9169b048a15e4a5636c64fe759-113x32.svg)](https://www.yotpo.com/)[![Lightdash](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/ca9f28eeb5a65e2e9b3028f54b12a60a113b59cf-1000x202.png)](https://www.lightdash.com/)[![Hello Heart](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/a4e6e2c5489423be83f1c729ba0f02040a2c37ef-1911x277.svg)](https://www.helloheart.com/)[![Lema.ai](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/fff0c34f467af8233d9a64b014ea9dff8a9a1e98-109x38.svg)](https://www.lema.ai/) [![monday.com](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/ea462ad717901e6307784c09b999fc5922e67241-326x60.svg)](https://www.monday.com/)[![Ruggable](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/07743ed2e7b5c74d050e9d7fd446028c6724e978-500x115.png)](https://ruggable.com/)[![LaunchDarkly](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/2d6933fc1badc391c818660954385ff408aefe84-5682x877.svg)](https://launchdarkly.com/)[![Yotpo](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/fc9a1efb3a171d9169b048a15e4a5636c64fe759-113x32.svg)](https://www.yotpo.com/)[![Lightdash](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/ca9f28eeb5a65e2e9b3028f54b12a60a113b59cf-1000x202.png)](https://www.lightdash.com/)[![Hello Heart](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/a4e6e2c5489423be83f1c729ba0f02040a2c37ef-1911x277.svg)](https://www.helloheart.com/)[![Lema.ai](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/fff0c34f467af8233d9a64b014ea9dff8a9a1e98-109x38.svg)](https://www.lema.ai/) # What the free tier includes The same core platform that Scale and Enterprise customers run, for up to 5 users and 500 environments per month. - ### Self-Hosted on your Kubernetes cluster Okteto installs on a Kubernetes cluster you own: EKS, GKE, AKS or bare metal. Your code, data and credentials never leave your infrastructure. - ### Application environments from one manifest Developers, coding agents and test pipelines create application environments on Kubernetes from the same definition, built on the Helm charts, Compose files or scripts you already use. - ### A preview environment for every pull request Every pull request, from a developer or a coding agent, gets an environment with its own URL that updates on every push. Reviewers try the application end to end without setting anything up locally. - ### Environments for your coding agents Each coding agent builds, deploys and tests its changes in its own application environment, from the same definition your developers use. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and other agents. [Read our installation guide](https://www.okteto.com/docs/get-started/install/) # One definition, three ways to use it - ### Developers Code locally and see your changes running in a realistic environment on Kubernetes, with its services and data. No more "works on my machine". - ### Coding agents Each agent gets its own application environment to build, deploy and test its changes against real services instead of mocks, and opens a pull request with a live URL. - ### Pull requests Every pull request gets a preview environment with its own URL. Developers, QA and product managers open it without setting anything up locally. ## Platform teams choose Okteto - > "At the highest level, the real reason we chose Okteto was to improve our developer sanity and help us ship things faster." > > ![Beam](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/80c9ee6c40cf7fe8354aa3cc5719b58b6acb0a11-250x55.svg) > > ![Luke Lombardi](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/d3417e44f098cd7310aea663ff493f50b4cf61e8-200x200.jpg?w=64&h=64&q=75&fit=max&auto=format) > > Luke Lombardi > > Founder - > "All new projects start with Okteto now. As a result, our Platform Engineering team spends much less time supporting local environment issues." > > Platform Engineer > > U.S. government research lab [See more customer stories](https://www.okteto.com/customers) ## Questions people ask before signing up What are the limits of the free tier? The free tier is for up to 5 users and 500 environments per month, Self-Hosted on your Kubernetes cluster. You get a license valid for one year right after you sign up. Scale and Enterprise are priced per user, with unlimited environments. Do I need a Kubernetes cluster ready? Yes. Okteto installs on a Kubernetes cluster you own: EKS, GKE, AKS or bare metal. Will this multiply our infrastructure costs? No. The free tier is capped at 500 environments per month. On Scale and Enterprise, Divert lets an environment deploy only the services you change and share the rest, and garbage collection scales idle environments to zero and deletes unused ones. Does it work with the coding agent we already use? Yes. Okteto works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and other coding agents. Can we run our test suites in these environments? Yes. Okteto Test runs your unit, integration and end-to-end suites in remote containers, against the services of the application environment instead of mocks. Can I upgrade later? Yes. To add more than 5 users or run more than 500 environments per month, upgrade to Scale or Enterprise and keep your existing configuration.