Plans and pricing
Ubuntu is always free to download, install, run, and upgrade. Free community support is available from Ubuntu Security Notices, AskUbuntu, UbuntuForums, Launchpad, PlanetUbuntu, IRC and through Mailing Lists.
For enterprises with production workloads Canonical offers the following suite of Ubuntu Advantage tools, services and support packages.
Server
MAAS
OpenStack
Kubernetes
Storage
Consulting packages
* Minimums apply
Ubuntu Advantage
Ubuntu Advantage is the professional package of tools, technology and expertise from Canonical, helping organisations around the world get the most out of their Ubuntu deployments. It includes access to:
- Extended Security Maintenance: critical security updates after Ubuntu end-of-life
- Landscape: the systems management tool for using Ubuntu at scale
- Livepatch: automatic kernel security hotfixes without rebooting
- Knowledge Base: a private archive of expert-written articles and tutorials
- Support: phone and web-based support at multiple service levels
For servers
| Ubuntu | Ubuntu Advantage for servers | |||
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| Without support | Essential | Standard | Advanced | |
| Price per node (physical) | $0 | $225/year | $750/year | $1,500/year |
| Price per node (virtual) | $0 | $75/year | $250/year | $500/year |
| Phone and ticket support | None | None | 8am - 6pm on weekdays |
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| Unlimited Ubuntu LXD guest support | |
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| Unlimited Ubuntu KVM guest support | |
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For desktops
| Ubuntu | Ubuntu Advantage for desktops | ||
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| Without support | Standard | Advanced | |
| Price per node (physical) * | $0 | $150/year | $300/year |
| Phone and ticket support | None | 8am - 6pm on weekdays |
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* Minimums apply
Optional add ons
Feature Sponsorships *
Enterprises can support the quicker development of certain features, packages, or changes to Ubuntu for everyone’s benefit.
Custom Hardware Certification *
Get Canonical to certify specific hardware you are running that isn’t officially supported on Ubuntu.
Custom OS Images *
Have Canonical create and maintain images that have the customisations your company requires.
Additional Ceph support
If you need more than the included 3TB.
Technical Account Manager
Get a dedicated support person for your account.
Dedicated engineers
Canonical can write code to support your organisation; for example, get Canonical to write custom drivers for your hardware.
* Requires a site-wide UA subscription
MAAS
MAAS is freely available, open source software from Canonical. Many enterprises depend on MAAS to automate and optimize provisioning for production hardware. Canonical offers Standard and Advanced support plans priced per-machine-per-month or, for large volume and public clouds with dynamic scale, we offer per-region pricing with flexible node ranges.
| Ubuntu | Ubuntu Advantage for MAAS | ||
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| Without support | Standard | Advanced | |
| Price per machine | $0 | $5 per month | $10 per month |
| Per region per year | - | - | Unlimited machines $75,000 |
| Phone and ticket support | None | 8am - 6pm on weekdays |
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OpenStack
Canonical provides support services, management tools, and the Cloud Archive which keeps thousands of businesses productive with their own local OpenStack clouds. For large volume and public clouds with dynamic scale, we’re pleased to offer per-region pricing with flexible node ranges.
| OpenStack | Ubuntu Advantage for OpenStack |
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| Without support | Advanced | Fully Managed | |
| Price per machine * | $0 | $1,500/year | $5,450/year |
| Or, price per region per year ** | - | Small: $95,000 Medium: $225,000 Large: $420,000 |
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| Livepatch (all hosts and Ubuntu guests) | |
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| 3TB of Ceph and/or Swift usable storage per node | |
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| 24x7 phone and ticket support (all hosts and Ubuntu guests) | |
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* Minimum of 12 supported nodes
** Small region: Up to 99 nodes, Medium region: 100-499 nodes; Large region: 500+ nodes
OpenStack consulting packages
Canonical delivers turnkey OpenStack software solutions, on-site, through its field consulting team. Two plans are offered: the Foundation Cloud, which is based on our award-winning reference architecture, and Foundation Plus, which packs in a complete set of enterprise features and architectural flexibility.
| Foundation Cloud | Foundation Cloud Plus | |
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| One-time price | $75,000 | $150,000 |
| Expert delivery of an Ubuntu OpenStack cloud | Reference architecture | Custom architecture |
| On-site workshop and training | 2-days | 4-days |
| Hypervisor options | KVM and LXD | KVM, LXD, and Hyper-V |
| Software Defined Networking options | OVS (GRE and/or VXLAN) | OVS with Provider Networks, BGP, DVR * |
| Software Defined Storage options | Ceph | Ceph, Swift ** |
| Encryption | Control plane and storage |
* Juniper Contrail, Cisco ACI, Nokia Nuage and more available as add-ons
** Nexenta, Solidfire, Quobyte, ScaleIO and more available as add-ons
For more information about Foundation Cloud Build or if you are not sure which one is right for you, contact us ›
Kubernetes
Scale-out container management is top of mind for savvy cloud architects around the world. Ubuntu is, by far, the world’s leading platform for container-based workflows. Canonical provides enterprise-caliber support for Kubernetes.
For more information about Kubernetes support, contact us ›
| Ubuntu | Ubuntu Advantage for Kubernetes | BootStack | ||
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| Standard | Advanced | Fully Managed | ||
| Price per node (physical) * | $0 | $600/year | $1,200/year | $4,380/year |
| Price per node (virtual) * | $0 | $200/year | $400/year | $1,460/year |
| Phone and web ticket support | None | 8am - 6pm on weekdays |
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Kubernetes consulting packages
Canonical has two Kubernetes offerings: Kubernetes Explorer and Kubernetes Discoverer. Every Kubernetes we build is future-proof with automated upgrades to newer versions on demand.
Kubernetes Explorer
$15,000 one off fee
Get up and running quickly with minimal setup, predefined architecture and web-based training.
What’s included:
- High availability Kubernetes, deployed on public cloud
- Reference architecture
- NodePort and Flannel networking
- 8 hours hands-on, web-based training
- 30 days of phone support included
Kubernetes Discoverer
$35,000 one off fee
Get a customised architecture to fit your requirements, including bare-metal environments or custom integrations and on-site training.
What’s included:
- High availability Kubernetes, deployed on Public Cloud, VMware, OpenStack, or Bare metal
- Custom Kubernetes architecture optimised for your workloads
- Any CNI-compatible network (Calico, Canal, Flannel, Weave)
- 4 days on-site in-person training
- 30 days of phone support included
Optional add-ons
| Workload analysis (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, CI/CD, Serverless, Transcoding) |
+$9,000 * |
| CI/CD Workload | +$13,000 * |
| Architecture design | +$20,000 * |
| Custom monitoring | +$7,000 |
| Disaster recovery | +$10,000 |
| Alternate runtime | +$5,000 |
| Additional customisation | +$1,500/day |
* included in Kubernetes Discoverer
Ceph and Swift Storage
Ubuntu Advantage Storage from Canonical embeds the proven open source software‐defined storage (SDS) technologies of Ceph and Swift into a 24x7 supported software solution with a unique usage-based pricing model.
| Ubuntu Advantage Storage | |
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| Up to 32 TB usable | $5,000/year |
| Up to 128 TB usable | $15,000/year |
| Up to 512 TB usable | $45,000/year |
| Up to 1,024 TB usable (1 PB) | $75,000/year |
| Unlimited storage | $250,000/year |
| Phone and web ticket support | 24 hours a day, everyday |
| Industry-leading cloud operations tooling (Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju) | |
| Deploy, run, scale, upgrade | |
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| Livepatch | |
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| Production grade monitoring | |
Landscape Enterprise Systems Management
Reduce your team’s efforts on day-to-day management with Landscape, the most cost-effective tool to support and monitor large and growing networks of desktops, servers and clouds.
| Landscape on-premises | |
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| Price per Landscape server deployment on-premises | $2,000/year |
| Private instance, on-prem or in a public cloud | |
| Automated package updates | |
| Remote package installation, update, and rollback | |
| Security compliance and audit reports | |
| Scale out system monitoring | |
| Hardware inventory control | |
| Role-based access controls | |
| High availability support | |
| Phone and ticket support for Landscape 24 hours a day, everyday | |