How pricing works

Two things are paid for, and they are separate

One is the organisation - a company, its people and its infrastructure. The other is you, personally. They are billed independently, and neither one caps the other.

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Free to start

One user, one organisation and five managed resources cost nothing - no card, no time limit. One organisation per person can be free; a second organisation you own needs a plan. A free organisation has no AI and no automation, and four things stay switched off until it moves to a paid plan: MCP write tools, API-key issuance, AI agents and RoPA records for GDPR Article 30. The first thing you pay for is your sixth managed resource, or your second user.

What an organisation pays for

One continuous curve, anchored on what the organisation actually runs: how many managed resources it has, how much of running them you hand over to automation, and how many people need access beyond the allowance every configuration includes. There is no base fee and no package to choose - the curve starts at zero and rises from there. Each organisation is priced on its own, so the total grows with every organisation you run.

What a person pays for

AI is bought here, never on the organisation: every paid personal plan includes a monthly AI allowance, and going past it costs €1 per 1,000 credits rather than cutting you off. A personal plan also decides how many organisations you may own: one on Free, five on Plus, ten on AI, no limit on Unlimited. An organisation can pay for its people's personal plans, so a company that wants AI buys it for the colleagues who will use it, on one invoice. A personal plan never limits how many members an organisation can have.

Before you commit, know how this ends if the money stops. Every organisation has a spending ceiling - €20 to begin with, and you can raise it. When it binds, your resources stop: compute is switched off, while anything that accrues continuously, such as disks and networks, keeps being billed. If payment stops altogether, we export your resources as Terraform so they can be redeployed quickly elsewhere, and then we tear them down - your data goes with them. That export describes your infrastructure; it is not a backup of what was inside it, so keep your own backups of anything you cannot lose. The two axes themselves stay independent throughout: a free personal account inside a large paid organisation is perfectly normal, and so is a paid personal plan whose organisations are all free.

Estimate

Work out your price

Set the numbers below and you have your figure. No form, no sales call.

One managed resource = one compute instance, managed database, storage bucket, or DNS zone managed through Sencai.

How much should run on its own?

The automation level you choose prepays for a number of people - one with no automation, more as you automate. Beyond that, each person is priced on the curve. There is no cap on how many you add, and no personal plan ever limits it.

Each organisation is priced on its own and the figures add up. Most companies need one.

Estimated total

359/month

How this price is composed

Managed resources above the free five95×
142
Automation scopeStandard
157
People beyond the ones your automation includes
60
Per organisation
359
Organisations
×1
Total
359/month

3,590/yearAnnual billing: two months free, about 17% less.

Included at this configuration

People included
5
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In every plan

  • EU data residency for platform data and GDPR-aligned processing
  • 14-day trial, no card required
  • Provisioning across 11 cloud providers, plus your own hardware
  • Monitoring, alerting and a tamper-evident audit trail
  • Change your configuration or cancel at any time

This is an estimate, not an offer. Your final price is confirmed before your first invoice. It covers the platform only - cloud resources running on Sencai accounts are billed separately, at what the provider charges plus 2%, under a monthly spend ceiling.

Personal plans

Individuals

A personal plan is about your own productivity: AI working inside your account, prepared functions and automations, how many organisations you may own - and soon a Playground where you build your own workflows. Every paid plan includes a monthly AI allowance and lets you keep going past it at the same rate. AI is bought only here, never on the organisation, and your organisation can pay for your plan if it wants you to have it. It has no effect on how many people an organisation can have.

Free

For individuals just getting started. Automatic fallback after your trial.

0/month

No AI on this plan

  • 1 organisation owned
  • Core platform access
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Plus

More capacity for your accounts, your first prepared functions - and AI included from here up.

9.9/month

280 AI credits a month

  • 5 organisations owned
  • Prepared functions library
  • AI-assisted remediation and AI code review
  • Core platform access
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AI

Your AI co-pilot: remediation, code review, and an AI allowance sized for automating your daily work.

39.9/month

2,760 AI credits a month

  • 10 organisations owned
  • AI-assisted remediation and AI code review
  • A monthly AI safety ceiling you control
  • Early access to the automation Playground (roadmap)
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Unlimited

For power users and consultants who automate everything they touch.

89.9/month

13,800 AI credits a month

  • Unlimited organisations owned
  • AI-assisted remediation and AI code review
  • Early access to the automation Playground (roadmap)
  • Priority support
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A Sencai AI credit is our own unit, not a provider token. It is a fixed amount of money spent on AI (1,000 credits = €1), so what a model costs changes how many tokens a credit buys, never what the credit is worth. The allowance is monthly whether you pay monthly or annually, and every account has a safety ceiling at 4x it so a runaway script cannot produce an unbounded bill.

New accounts begin with a 14-day trial of the platform. The trial does not include AI; afterwards the account falls back to Free unless you decide otherwise. Personal plans can be sponsored: another person, or the organisation itself, pays for someone's plan straight from the profile, on one invoice, and the sponsored person keeps their own organisation quota. Since AI lives on this axis, sponsoring is how a company gives a colleague AI.

What you get

All of this is in every organisation

There are no feature tiers between paid plans. Nothing below is reserved for larger customers - a one-person paid organisation and a 250-person one run exactly the same platform, and only the price differs. The free configuration is the single exception: it comes without AI, without automation, and without MCP write tools, API-key issuance, AI agents and RoPA records.

Private container registry
A private registry for your images, scanned for known vulnerabilities on every push, with container signing so you can prove what you deployed. Storage grows with your configuration, from tens of gigabytes to a terabyte and beyond by arrangement.
Security scanning
CIS benchmark checks and Lynis hardening audits on every machine you manage, cloud instance or bare metal, with container image signing on top. The scope can be narrowed or extended to match your own baseline.
FinOps and cost control
All of your cloud spend in one place: forecasting for the months ahead, side-by-side comparison between providers, an alert when a bill jumps, and reports you can shape yourself. The AI explanation of why it jumped comes from a personal plan with AI, because AI is bought per person rather than by the organisation.
Browser SSH terminal and just-in-time elevation
Reach any server in your fleet from the browser - no VPN, no shared private keys. Elevated access is requested when it is needed, approved by a colleague, expires on its own, and every session is recorded.
SSO and SCIM
Sign in through Microsoft Entra ID or Google Workspace, and create, update and remove accounts automatically over SCIM, with role-based access control down to the individual resource.
On-premise deployment
Run the platform in your own data centre when that is what the rules require. The fleet agent behaves the same on a bare-metal server as on a cloud instance, so on-premise is a deployment choice, not a reduced version of the product.
Support from the people who build it
Email, chat and phone, answered by the engineers who wrote the platform rather than a first-line script. Response targets and out-of-hours cover, up to 24×7 with a named engineer, are agreed with you.
Availability commitment
A written availability target - 99.9%, 99.95% or 99.99% - agreed in your contract. It is a service level backed by a human response time, not a feature a package unlocks, so it is bought deliberately rather than assigned by the size of your invoice.
Comparison

How we compare

Where Sencai is the better fit - and where, honestly, it is not.

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  • No
  • Partial
How we compare
CapabilitySencaiemmaMulti-cloud management and cost controlmeshcloudCloud foundation and landing zonesCycloidDevOps portal with IaC and FinOpsEnterprise ITSM suitesServiceNow-class service management platforms
Prices published on the websiteYesnot publishednot publishedYesnot published
Free trial without talking to sales14 daysYesNonot publishednot published
Self-service signupYesYesnot publishednot publishednot published
Public product documentation without an accountYesYesYesYesYes
Public API referenceYesYesYesYesYes
Agent for on-premise and bare-metal serversYesnot publishednot publishednot publishedYes
Cloud providers named on the vendor's own site11376not published
Built-in cloud cost management (FinOps)YesYesPartialYesPartial
Named sub-processor list published on the websiteYesnot publishednot publishednot publishednot published
Customer telemetry kept in-house instead of third-party SaaSYesnot publishednot publishednot publishednot published
Tamper-evident audit trail you can verifyYesnot publishednot publishednot publishedPartial
NIS2 evidence reportingYesnot publishednot publishednot publishedPartial

Compiled from each vendor's own public pages in August 2026. Where a vendor does not state something publicly we write “not published” rather than guess. Pages change - if anything here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

Compliance

Evidence you can hand to an auditor

GDPR-aligned processing, EU hosting by default, and an audit trail your own people can check - without taking our word for it.

  • GDPR-aligned processing

    You get a published data processing agreement that forms part of our Terms, a published register of every company that processes data on our behalf, and export and erasure handled inside the product instead of by email ticket.

    • Published sub-processor register
    • Data processing agreement with every customer
    • Export and erasure handled in-product
  • Evidence for NIS2 and ZoKB

    The platform records what changed, who approved it and when, and turns that record into something you can put in front of a regulator. We do not sell you a certificate - we give you the evidence your own obligations require.

    • Change, access and approval records
    • Just-in-time elevation with an approval trail
    • Exportable reporting for your own filings
  • An audit trail that proves itself

    Every entry carries a SHA-256 digest of its own content and of the entry before it, and the record is append-only, with immutability enforced by the database itself. Alter or remove one entry and every link after it stops adding up.

    • SHA-256 chained entries
    • Append-only, immutability enforced in the database
    • A break is detectable anywhere in the history
  • EU hosting, no third-party telemetry

    The platform runs in EU regions. Error tracking, product analytics, billing metering and observability all run on our own infrastructure, so your operational data is not handed to a telemetry vendor on the way past.

    • EU regions by default
    • Self-hosted error tracking and product analytics
    • Self-hosted metering and observability

Verify the trail yourself

Most vendors ask you to trust their audit log. This one is built so you do not have to. Each entry binds the hash of the entry before it, so a single altered, inserted or deleted record breaks every link that follows - and you can prove it on your own machine, with your own tools, whenever you like.

  1. Export your organisation's audit trail from the platform.
  2. Recompute the SHA-256 digest of each entry from its own content.
  3. Check that every entry carries the digest of the entry before it, back to the first one.
  4. Any edit, gap or deletion shows up as a broken link - found by you, without our help.

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