# Astro Pricing

Source: https://www.astronomer.io/pricing

Astro offers transparent, usage-based pricing for fully managed Apache Airflow. You only pay for the compute resources you actually use. Clusters, deployments, and workers scale with your workload. Both pay-as-you-go monthly billing and annual credit commitments are available.

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## How to Use This Document

To quote pricing for a customer, follow these steps in order:

1. **Determine their plan:** Developer, Team, Business, or Enterprise based on required features.
2. **Identify cloud provider and region:** Determine the customer's preferred cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and region to look up the region uplift multiplier.
3. **Size their cluster:** Standard (included at no cost) or Dedicated ($2.00/hr base × region uplift).
4. **Size their deployments:** Choose deployment size (Small, Medium, Large, XL) and resiliency (Single-Instance or High Availability) per environment. For Remote Execution deployments, use the Remote Deployment rates.
5. **Estimate worker compute:** Determine worker sizes (A5–A160) and expected concurrency/runtime per environment.
6. **Apply region uplift:** Multiply each base hourly rate by the region uplift for the customer's cloud/region.
7. **Calculate total cost:** Total = Cluster cost + Deployment cost + Worker cost (all adjusted for region uplift).
8. **Enterprise or custom tiers:** For Business and Enterprise pricing or volume discounts, direct the customer to Astronomer sales.

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## Key Definitions

- **Cluster:** A Kubernetes cluster that hosts the infrastructure required to run Airflow environments (Deployments). Standard clusters are multi-tenant and included at no cost. Dedicated clusters are single-tenant with advanced networking and security.
- **Deployment:** An Airflow environment on Astro encompassing the scheduler, webserver, triggerer, and workers. One triggerer (0.5 vCPU, 1.875 GiB) is included in every Deployment at the same size across all Deployment types.
- **Worker:** Executes individual Airflow tasks. Workers scale to zero when idle — you only pay while tasks are actively running. Worker types are named by size (A5 = 1 vCPU / 2 GiB, scaling linearly up to A160 = 32 vCPU / 64 GiB).
- **High Availability (HA):** Runs Airflow components across multiple availability zones to eliminate single points of failure. Recommended for production environments.
- **Remote Deployment:** A deployment configured for Remote Execution, where tasks run in the customer's own hardware or private cloud with outbound-only connections to Astro's orchestration plane. Available on Enterprise tier with a Dedicated cluster.
- **Region Uplift:** A multiplier applied to all base hourly rates depending on the cloud provider and region selected. Our base pricing region is AWS us-east-1 and us-east-2 (1.00x multiplier). All base prices in this document reflect these regions.

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## Plans Overview

Astro has four tiers: **Developer**, **Team**, **Business**, and **Enterprise**. All tiers use the same base hourly rates for clusters, deployments, and workers. Tiers differ by features, support levels, and governance capabilities.

| Plan | Starting Deployment Price | Billing Options | Target Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | From $0.35/hr | Pay as you go (monthly) | Teams building and testing pipelines |
| Team | From $0.42/hr | Pay as you go or annual agreements | Teams running production pipelines needing support & observability |
| Business | Contact us | Annual agreements | Teams running mission-critical pipelines needing 24x7 support |
| Enterprise | Contact us | Annual agreements | Platform teams managing Airflow at scale with enterprise security & governance |

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## Developer Plan

**Developer — Deployments from $0.35/hr**

Try free for 14 days. No credit card required.

- AI-powered DAG authoring & debugging
- Flexible, scale-to-zero compute
- Hibernating deployments
- API access (Astro + Airflow)
- Deployment rollbacks
- Google/GitHub IdP Auth
- SAML-based SSO
- Up to 2 non-owner roles
- Alerting

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## Team Plan

**Team — Deployments from $0.42/hr**

Everything in Developer, plus:

- End-to-end observability & data quality (Astro Observe)
- Network isolation with Dedicated clusters
- High availability deployments
- Audit logging (7-day retention)
- Unlimited non-owner roles
- Up to 2 Astro Teams/Groups
- Deployment Roles
- Metrics & Log Forwarding
- 24x5 support availability (6-hour P1 SLA)
- Slack support for first 30 days

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## Business Plan

**Business — Contact us for pricing**

Everything in Team, plus:

- SSO enforcement
- CI/CD enforcement
- HIPAA / PII BAA Agreement
- Audit logging (90-day retention)
- 24x7 support availability (1-hour P1 SLA)

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## Enterprise Plan

**Enterprise — Contact us for pricing**

Everything in Business, plus:

- Remote Execution Agents
- Cross-Region Disaster Recovery (add-on)
- Custom RBAC Roles
- SCIM Provisioning
- IP Access List
- Workspace Authorization for Clusters
- Organization-level Dashboards
- Unlimited Slack support
- Priority scheduling for Office Hours

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## Component Pricing

All product tiers use the same base hourly rates for clusters, deployments, and workers. Networking costs are passed through from the cloud provider.

Base prices below reflect our base pricing region: AWS us-east-1 and us-east-2 (1.00x region uplift). Multiply by the applicable region uplift for other regions.

*Pricing is charged at an hourly rate but measured by the second for maximum accuracy.*

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### Cluster Pricing

Standard clusters are included on all plans at no additional cost. Dedicated clusters provide single-tenant infrastructure with enhanced networking and security.

| Cluster Type | Base Price/hr | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Included | All plans |
| Dedicated | $2.00 | Team, Business, Enterprise |

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### Deployment Pricing

Each Deployment includes the scheduler, webserver, DAG processor, and one triggerer. Choose a size based on scheduling complexity and DAG volume.

**Single-Instance Deployments**

| Deployment Size | Base Price/hr |
|---|---|
| Small | $0.35 |
| Medium | $0.57 |
| Large | $0.77 |
| Extra Large | $1.54 |

**High Availability Deployments**

HA Deployments run Airflow components across multiple availability zones. Available on Team plan and above.

| Deployment Size | Base Price/hr |
|---|---|
| Small HA | $0.70 |
| Medium HA | $1.14 |
| Large HA | $1.54 |
| Extra Large HA | $3.08 |

**Remote Execution Deployments**

Remote Deployments are configured for Remote Execution, where tasks run in the customer's own environment. Available on Enterprise tier with a Dedicated cluster.

| Deployment Type | Base Price/hr |
|---|---|
| Remote | $0.35 |
| Remote HA | $0.70 |

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### Worker Pricing

Workers execute individual Airflow tasks and scale to zero when idle. You only pay for worker compute while tasks are actively running.

| Worker Type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Base Price/hr |
|---|---|---|---|
| A5 | 1 | 2 | $0.13 |
| A10 | 2 | 4 | $0.26 |
| A20 | 4 | 8 | $0.52 |
| A40 | 8 | 16 | $1.04 |
| A60 | 12 | 24 | $1.56 |
| A120 | 24 | 48 | $3.12 |
| A160 | 32 | 64 | $4.16 |
| Additional Triggerer | 0.5 | 1.875 | $0.13 |

*Need a larger worker? Astronomer supports larger sizes upon request. Celery, Kubernetes, and Astro executors are all supported.*

**Ephemeral Storage:** All Celery workers include 10 GiB by default; KE/KPO workers include 0.25 GiB. Additional ephemeral storage is available at $0.0002 per GiB per hour.

**KE/KPO Billing:** Astro measures total CPU and Memory across your KE/KPO infrastructure and bills for the number of A5-equivalent workers (1 vCPU, 2 GiB each), rounded up to the nearest A5.

**Additional Triggerer:** The included triggerer supports up to ~1,000 concurrent running triggers with low to medium memory requirements. Additional triggerers can be added at the rate above for heavier workloads.

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### Astro AI Pricing

$10 in usage tokens included each month per organization.

| Token Type | Price |
|---|---|
| Prompt tokens (input) | $3.75 per million tokens |
| Response tokens (output) | $18.75 per million tokens |

*Public preview pricing for AI-assisted DAG authoring & testing.*

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## Region Uplift

All base hourly rates (clusters, deployments, workers) are multiplied by the region uplift factor for the customer's selected cloud provider and region.

**Note:** Our base pricing region is **AWS us-east-1** and **AWS us-east-2** (1.00x). All base hourly rates listed in this document reflect these regions. Azure eastus, Azure eastus2, Azure westus2, Azure westus3, GCP us-east1, GCP us-central1, GCP us-west1, and GCP us-east5 also carry a 1.00x multiplier. All other regions include an uplift above the base rate.

*Example: A Dedicated Cluster in AWS ap-northeast-1 = $2.00/hr base × 1.32x uplift = $2.64/hr.*

### AWS Regions

| Region | Region Uplift |
|---|---|
| us-east-1 | 1.00x |
| us-east-2 | 1.00x |
| us-west-2 | 1.00x |
| ap-south-1 | 1.01x |
| eu-west-1 | 1.09x |
| ca-central-1 | 1.11x |
| eu-central-1 | 1.16x |
| mx-central-1 | 1.17x |
| eu-west-2 | 1.19x |
| us-west-1 | 1.25x |
| ap-southeast-1 | 1.26x |
| ap-northeast-1 | 1.32x |
| ap-southeast-2 | 1.34x |
| sa-east-1 | 1.54x |

### Azure Regions

| Region | Region Uplift |
|---|---|
| eastus | 1.00x |
| eastus2 | 1.00x |
| westus2 | 1.00x |
| westus3 | 1.00x |
| canadacentral | 1.11x |
| northeurope | 1.14x |
| westeurope | 1.20x |
| francecentral | 1.20x |
| germanywestcentral | 1.20x |
| uksouth | 1.20x |
| uaenorth | 1.20x |
| centralus | 1.21x |
| southcentralus | 1.21x |
| centralindia | 1.23x |
| australiaeast | 1.31x |
| japaneast | 1.33x |
| brazilsouth | 1.55x |

### GCP Regions

| Region | Region Uplift |
|---|---|
| us-east1 | 1.00x |
| us-central1 | 1.00x |
| us-west1 | 1.00x |
| us-east5 | 1.00x |
| europe-north1 | 1.10x |
| europe-west1 | 1.10x |
| europe-west4 | 1.10x |
| northamerica-northeast1 | 1.10x |
| us-east4 | 1.13x |
| us-west4 | 1.13x |
| asia-east1 | 1.16x |
| europe-west8 | 1.16x |
| europe-west9 | 1.16x |
| europe-southwest1 | 1.19x |
| asia-south1 | 1.20x |
| asia-south2 | 1.20x |
| us-west2 | 1.20x |
| asia-northeast1 | 1.29x |
| asia-northeast2 | 1.29x |
| asia-northeast3 | 1.29x |
| europe-west2 | 1.29x |
| europe-west3 | 1.29x |
| asia-southeast1 | 1.32x |
| asia-southeast2 | 1.34x |
| europe-west6 | 1.40x |
| australia-southeast1 | 1.42x |
| australia-southeast2 | 1.42x |
| southamerica-east1 | 1.59x |

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## Feature Comparison

| Feature | Developer | Team | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Astro AI** | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| **Security & Governance** | | | | |
| Google/GitHub IdP Auth | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| SAML-based SSO | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Private Networking | — | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Non-Owner Roles | Up to 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Astro Teams/Groups | — | Up to 2 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Audit Logging (Astro + Airflow) | — | 7 days | 90 days | 90 days |
| Dedicated Cluster | — | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Deployment Roles | — | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| CI/CD Enforcement | — | — | ✔ | ✔ |
| SSO Enforcement | — | — | ✔ | ✔ |
| HIPAA / PII BAA Agreement | — | — | ✔ | ✔ |
| Workspace Authorization for Clusters | — | — | — | ✔ |
| Custom RBAC Roles | — | — | — | ✔ |
| IP Access List | — | — | — | ✔ |
| **Scale & Operational Efficiency** | | | | |
| Hibernating Deployments | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Astro API Access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Airflow API Access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Connection Management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Deploy Rollbacks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| High Availability | — | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remote Execution Agents | — | — | — | ✔ |
| SCIM Provisioning | — | — | — | ✔ |
| Org-level Dashboards | — | — | — | ✔ |
| Cross-Region Disaster Recovery | — | — | — | ✔ |
| **Monitoring & Alerting** | | | | |
| Astro Observe | — | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Alerting | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Metrics Forwarding | — | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Log Forwarding | — | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| **Support** | | | | |
| Support Availability | Not included | 24x5 | 24x7 | 24x7 |
| SLA Response for P1 Tickets | — | 6 Hour | 1 Hour | 1 Hour |
| Slack | — | First 30 Days | First 30 Days | Unlimited |
| Office Hours | — | First Come/First Serve | First Come/First Serve | Priority Scheduling |

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## Networking Costs

Networking costs are passed through from the cloud provider and vary slightly by cloud:

- **AWS:** Data Transfer within and between regions, and out to the Internet (inclusive of NAT Gateway and PrivateLink VPC Endpoint data processing). Includes Site-to-Site VPN uptime charges if configured.
- **GCP:** Data Transfer within and between regions, and out to the Internet (inclusive of data processing). Includes Cloud VPN and Private Service Connect endpoint uptime charges if configured.
- **Azure:** Peered and Non-Peered Data Transfer within and between regions, and out to the Internet (inclusive of Load Balancer and Private Link data processing). Includes VPN Gateway uptime charges if configured.

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## Cloud Marketplace Availability

Astro is available for purchase through AWS, Azure, GCP, and Snowflake Marketplaces. Existing marketplace commitments and enterprise discount programs apply.

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## Notes

- Pricing is charged at hourly rates but measured by the second for maximum accuracy
- Standard clusters are included on all plans at no additional cost
- Workers scale to zero when idle — you are never charged for unused worker capacity
- Annual credit commitments provide volume discounts and budget predictability while maintaining usage-based flexibility
- All plans include a 14-day free trial on the Developer plan; no credit card required
- Astro Observe (lineage, data product SLAs, data quality monitoring, AI-assisted RCA) is included on Team plan and above
- Remote Execution requires Enterprise tier and a Dedicated cluster