Infrastructure & Deployment Costs

How Pricing Works

Your total cost consists of two components:

1. Subscription

Per-user monthly fee for platform access

Starter: $5/user | Professional: $9/user

2. Infrastructure

Costs for cloud VMs, storage, and networking

Based on your deployment choice

Deployment Costs (Cloud VMs)

Veltrix provisions your tools onto standard virtual machines from your chosen cloud provider — no Kubernetes required. Pick a single instance for evaluation and small teams, or a distributed topology (multiple indexers and search heads) for production. Prefer your own hardware? A self-hosted deployment has no cloud VM cost — only the Veltrix management fee applies.

Deployment Topology	AWS EC2	Azure VMs	Google Cloud	Hetzner
Single Instance 1 all-in-one node (8 vCPU / 32 GB) · eval, PoC, small teams	~$280/month	~$280/month	~$284/month	~$185/month
Distributed — Starter 3 indexers + 2 search heads (5 × 8 vCPU / 32 GB)	~$1,400/month	~$1,400/month	~$1,420/month	~$925/month
Distributed — Production 3 indexers (16 vCPU / 64 GB) + 2 search heads (8 vCPU / 32 GB), HA	~$2,240/month	~$2,240/month	~$2,270/month	~$1,475/month
Enterprise / Multi-region Indexer & search-head clustering across regions	Contact us	Contact us	Contact us	Contact us

A limited Free plan is also available: 3 users, 10 enabled apps, 1 configuration canvas and 7 days of audit retention. Drift detection, approval workflows, access management (custom roles and SSO) and MCP access are paid features. Limits are enforced by the platform; see Plans, Limits & Trial for the full list.

Per-node building blocks

On-demand Linux pricing in US regions (~730 hrs/month, compute only). Block storage, snapshots, and data egress are billed separately by your provider; 1- or 3-year commitments reduce these rates by 30–60%.

Node size	Typical instance	AWS EC2	Azure VMs	Google Cloud	Hetzner
Eval / all-in-one 2 vCPU · 8 GB	m5.large · D2s v5 · n2-standard-2 · CCX13	~$70/mo	~$70/mo	~$71/mo	~$57/mo
Search head / small indexer 8 vCPU · 32 GB	m5.2xlarge · D8s v5 · n2-standard-8 · CCX33	~$280/mo	~$280/mo	~$284/mo	~$185/mo
Production indexer 16 vCPU · 64 GB	m5.4xlarge · D16s v5 · n2-standard-16 · CCX43	~$561/mo	~$561/mo	~$567/mo	~$368/mo

Storage Costs

Splunk indexers persist data, so block storage is usually the largest infrastructure line item. Rates below are per GB of provisioned volume, per month — you pay for what you allocate, and it scales with your daily ingest and retention window. Put hot/warm buckets on fast SSD and age cold buckets onto cheaper capacity volumes.

Volume type (per GB / month)	AWS EC2	Azure VMs	Google Cloud	Hetzner
SSD — hot / warm buckets General-purpose / balanced block volume	$0.08 (gp3)	~$0.08 (Premium SSD v2)	$0.10 (Balanced PD)	~$0.05 (Volume)
Capacity / HDD — cold buckets Throughput-optimized / standard volume	$0.045 (st1)	~$0.045 (Standard HDD)	$0.04 (Standard PD)	~$0.05 (Volume)

Example: 1 TB of hot/warm SSD per indexer runs about $80 (AWS), ~$80 (Azure), $100 (Google Cloud), or ~$50 (Hetzner) per month. Hetzner offers a single SSD-backed volume tier (no separate cold tier). Snapshots/backups are billed on top at each provider's snapshot rate.

Managed Appliance Costs

Optional managed services for security tool deployments and integrations.

Splunk Enterprise

BYOL - Bring Your Own License

$50/instance/month

Management & monitoring included

EDR Connector

CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, etc.

$25/connector/month

Per integration endpoint

Log Forwarding

High-volume log ingestion

$0.10/GB

First 50GB/month included

Backup & DR

Disaster recovery setup

$100/month

Cross-region replication

Subscription Feature Comparison

Feature	Starter ($5/user)	Professional ($9/user)	Custom
Users	Up to 10	Up to 50	Up to 500
Enabled Apps	Up to 15	Up to 20	Up to 100
Dashboard	Basic	Advanced + Custom Views	Fully Customizable
Compliance Frameworks	Basic Reports	SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS Controls	SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS Controls
Custom Roles
Approval Workflows	Included	Included	Included
API Access
Audit Log Retention	30 days	90 days	365 days
Canary & Blue/Green Deployments	—	Included	Included
Drift Detection	Included	Included	Included
Support	Email	Priority (24h SLA)	24/7 + Dedicated AM

Example Monthly Costs

Small Team

5 users, Starter plan, 1 VM

Subscription (5 x $5) $25
Infrastructure (1 VM) ~$70

Total ~$95/month

Growing Team

25 users, Professional plan, single instance

Subscription (25 x $9) $225
Infrastructure (single instance) ~$280
Splunk management $50

Total ~$555/month

Enterprise

100+ users, Custom plan

Subscription Custom
Infrastructure Custom
Managed services Custom

Total Contact Sales

Important Notes

All infrastructure costs are estimates based on on-demand Linux pricing in US regions and may vary by region, usage, and provider pricing changes.
Splunk Enterprise requires your own license (BYOL). Contact Splunk directly for licensing costs.
Self-hosted (on-premises) deployments incur no cloud VM cost — you run on your own hardware and pay only the Veltrix management fee.
Reserved instances or 1–3 year commitments reduce cloud VM costs by 30–60% versus the on-demand rates shown.
Hetzner Cloud figures use the dedicated-vCPU (CCX) line and include 20 TB of traffic; availability is limited to Germany, Finland, Singapore, and the US (Ashburn, VA and Hillsboro, OR).
Beyond compute and storage, a deployment also creates supporting resources — load balancers, public/primary IP addresses, snapshots & backups, and inter-zone or internet data egress. These are metered by your cloud provider and appear on your bill as usage.
Annual billing offers 10-20% discount on subscription costs.
Non-profit and educational discounts available - contact sales for details.