specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Aklivity
providerId: aklivity
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: https://www.aklivity.io/pricing
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-30'
supersedes: >-
  A generated scaffold dated 2026-05-04 that invented Free/Professional/
  Enterprise tiers with 1,000 and 100,000 monthly request quotas and 10/100 rpm
  rate limits. None of that was ever published by Aklivity — Aklivity does not
  meter requests at all. The scaffold is replaced in full by the tiers below,
  read from the live pricing page.
description: >-
  Aklivity prices Zilla per GATEWAY, not per seat and not per request. The
  pricing page states this explicitly: "No per-seat charges. No throughput
  metering." Two of the three tiers are contract-priced with no published
  figure, which is recorded as such rather than guessed.
pricing_model: per-gateway
metering: none
plan_count: 3
public_prices_published: 1
plans:
  - id: aklivity-community
    name: Community
    type: free
    price: '0.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: none
    description: >-
      Zilla Gateway, open core. Run it yourself on any infrastructure.
      Unlimited gateways, self-managed.
    license: Aklivity Community License (source-available)
    cta:
      label: Get it on GitHub
      url: https://github.com/aklivity/zilla
    included:
      - All protocols — HTTP, MQTT, gRPC, WebSocket, SSE, TCP, TLS
      - JWT guards, TLS, schema validation, Prometheus and OTLP exporters
      - Kafka protocol mediation to and from Kafka for non-Kafka clients
      - MCP gateway, spec-driven tools from OpenAPI, tool discovery
      - AsyncAPI and OpenAPI spec-driven config
      - Kubernetes and Helm
      - Community support via GitHub and Slack
    limits:
      gateways: unlimited
      throughput: unmetered
      support: community only
  - id: aklivity-plus
    name: Plus
    type: contract
    price: contract
    currency: USD
    billing_period: contract
    unit: per gateway
    minimum: none
    description: >-
      Zilla Plus Gateway. Hardened builds, enterprise identity, and support
      under SLA. Per gateway, no minimum.
    cta:
      label: Talk to an engineer
      url: https://www.aklivity.io/contact
    included:
      - Everything in Community
      - OAuth, API-key and vendor IdP guards including Azure AD, AWS Cognito, AWS IAM
      - Hardened AMI and container images, AWS Secrets Manager, CloudWatch and Syslog exporters
      - Kafka-native client proxying, secure public and private access, virtual clusters
      - AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud and Redpanda support
      - Per-user identity on every MCP tool call, semantic tool search, auto-sized eager tool sets, multi-node MCP sessions
      - Shared state across instances (Redis, Hazelcast)
      - Gold support — 12x5 coverage, 8-hour Severity 1 response
    add_ons:
      - name: Zilla Console
        pricing: flat-rate
    limits:
      price_published: false
  - id: aklivity-enterprise
    name: Enterprise
    type: contract
    price: contract
    currency: USD
    billing_period: contract
    unit: per gateway
    minimum: 8 gateways
    description: >-
      Zilla Plus Gateway with the Zilla Console management layer bundled in.
      From 8 gateways.
    cta:
      label: Contact sales
      url: https://www.aklivity.io/contact
    included:
      - Everything in Plus
      - Zilla Console management layer, bundled
      - API and Data Product catalog
      - Self-service developer portal
      - Governance, audit and RBAC
      - Kafka explorer GUI, gateway observability, policy and identity, teams and org management
      - On-premises and air-gapped deployment
      - Platinum support — 24x7 coverage, 2-hour Severity 1 response, named TAM
    limits:
      price_published: false
marketplace:
  - name: AWS Marketplace
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-jshnzslazfm44
    status: 200
    note: Zilla Plus is also transactable through AWS Marketplace.
comparison_page: https://www.aklivity.io/pricing
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com