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
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.
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."
"All new projects start with Okteto now. As a result, our Platform Engineering team spends much less time supporting local environment issues."
Questions people ask before signing up
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.
Yes. Okteto installs on a Kubernetes cluster you own: EKS, GKE, AKS or bare metal.
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.
Yes. Okteto works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and other coding agents.
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.
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.