Many cloud bills are hard to predict because the pricing model is built to be that way. Egress fees, exit fees and a swarm of line items turn the total into a surprise. We took a different route.
Predictability as a principle
Price should reflect actual resource usage, not a maze of add-on fees. We aim for a model where you can work out what a setup costs before you launch it, and where the bill contains no items whose only purpose is to make leaving expensive.
No penalty for owning your data
Taking out your own data shouldn’t cost extra. High egress fees are, in practice, a lock-in mechanism dressed up as pricing. With the EU Data Act, that mechanism is also becoming a compliance problem — we chose not to build it in from the start.
A pricing model that punishes exit is lock-in with a nicer name.
— from Kepler’s product principles
Start before you pay
You get a running VM before you pay a cent. No lock-in period, no hidden staircase. See current prices on the pricing page and do the math yourself.