specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Dapr
providerId: dapr
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-05'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - Distributed Systems
  - Microservices
  - Open Source
  - Pub/Sub
  - State Management
  - Workflows
description: Dapr is an open-source CNCF distributed application runtime released under the Apache 2.0
  license. The Dapr project itself does not sell a commercial offering — there is no public pricing,
  tiering, or per-call billing. Cost to operators is the underlying infrastructure (Kubernetes nodes,
  state stores, message brokers) that hosts the Dapr sidecars. Several third-party vendors (e.g.
  Diagrid Catalyst, Microsoft Azure Container Apps Dapr extension) offer managed or commercial
  distributions on separate price sheets, but those are out of scope for this artifact.
sources:
  - https://dapr.io
  - https://github.com/dapr/dapr/blob/master/LICENSE
notes: No public pricing exists for upstream Dapr. Plans are not applicable. Reconciled flag remains
  false to indicate there is nothing commercial to reconcile against.
plans:
  - id: dapr-open-source
    name: Open Source
    type: freemium
    description: Apache 2.0 licensed open-source distribution. Free to download, run, and modify.
      Operators bear only the underlying infrastructure cost.
    entries:
      - label: Software license
        name: license
        type: flat
        metric: month
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Apache 2.0 license
      - name: Community Slack and GitHub support
      - name: Dapr State Management API
      - name: Dapr Pub/Sub API
      - name: Dapr Service Invocation API
      - name: Dapr Bindings API
      - name: Dapr Secrets API
      - name: Dapr Actors API
      - name: Dapr Workflow API
      - name: Dapr Configuration API
      - name: Dapr Distributed Lock API
      - name: Dapr Cryptography API
      - name: Dapr Jobs API
      - name: Dapr Health API
      - name: Dapr Metadata API
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - subscription
  units:
  - period
  plans:
  - name: Open Source
    access: freemium
    model: subscription
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - period
    periods:
    - per-use