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Plans

Free while
we get this right.

Kino Cloud is in beta and nothing costs anything yet. The plans below are the shape we are building toward — we have not set prices, because we would rather ask the people who will pay them. Tell us which one fits and we will come back with a number.

The free tier is not a trial — it stays free

Free

Everything you need for a homelab.

Free, and staying free.

  • 3 machines
  • Shared relays, fair use
  • Credentials that expire on their own
  • Instant revocation
  • Your own relay - unlimited
  • Community support
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Most homelabs

Personal

For when three machines stopped being enough.

Free during the beta.

  • 25 machines
  • Everything in Free
  • Priority relays and region pinning Planned
  • Pin your machines to your own relay Planned
  • A year of connection history Planned
  • Email support
Tell us it fits

Team

Shared machines, more than one person.

In design - talk to us and shape it.

  • Unlimited machines
  • Everything in Personal
  • Several people, with roles Planned
  • A private relay pool Planned
  • Audit log and export Planned
Tell us it fits

Items marked Planned are not built yet. They are on the roadmap, not in the product — and they are exactly the things worth telling us to reprioritise.

Licensed, not hosted

Enterprise.

Every piece on your own infrastructure. Nothing dials home. You run the control plane, the relays, and the agents. There is no account on our servers, no traffic across our infrastructure, and nothing to reach on the public internet — which is the only answer that works on a network that will not accept an outbound dependency it does not control.

The desktop app, the agent, and the relay stay open source. What you licence is kino-control — the one closed piece — plus the support contract behind it.

Start a conversation Licensed, not hosted - annual, invoiced.
  • kino-control on your own servers
  • Your relays, your network, your data
  • No outbound dependency on us - works air-gapped
  • Your own identity provider in front of it
  • Unlimited machines and users
  • Support contract and updates

On every plan, including free

Bring your
own relay.

The relay is open source and always will be. Run one on your own box and there is no bandwidth ceiling, on any plan — your traffic takes your route, and you still get one-command installs, discovery, and credentials that expire on their own.

How to run one

Costs you

A small VM

Costs us

Nothing

Tell us what fits

What would you pay for?

We have not set prices yet, and we would rather hear from you first than guess. Say which plan matches how you work and we will come back with a number — and you will have had a say in it.

No newsletter. We reply once, from a real person.

Reasonable questions

Why is there no price on this page?

Because there is no billing yet, and half of what the paid plans describe is still being built. Publishing a number we cannot charge, for features that do not exist, would be worse than admitting where we are.

Will the free tier get worse when you launch?

No. 3 machines is the floor, not a trial. We can raise a free limit; we are not going to lower one.

Can I use Kino without paying you anything, ever?

Yes. The app, the agent, and the relay are open source. Run a relay with a shared token and skip Kino Cloud entirely — it is documented, not tolerated. What you would be paying for is not having to.

Can I run the control plane myself too?

Yes — that is the Enterprise plan. kino-control is the one proprietary piece, and it is licensed to run on your own infrastructure with a support contract. Nothing then leaves your network.

What happens to my machines if you disappear?

They keep running. Kino Cloud is not in the data path, and the agent and relay work with a static token and no control plane at all. Worst case you set one token and carry on.