What does DVARA cost?
Free to develop on; licensed for production.
Develop and test on DVARA for free, self-hosted in your own VPC, cloud, or on-prem — no sign-up, no credit card. Running it in production takes a commercial licence, sized by request volume.
Run it anywhere — your machine, your cluster, your production VPC. No licence required.
- Governed OpenAI-compatible gateway, 14 providers, BYOK
- Full governance: policy engine, PII detection, guardrails, tamper-evident signed audit, cost tracking
- Runs offline — no phone-home
The MCP and A2A governance planes, with an SLA and a support contract, in your own VPC, cloud, or on-prem.
- The full governance platform
- MCP and A2A governance planes
- SSO and support
- 30-day trial licence on request
A dedicated cluster we run for you, in your region. Arranged through sales.
- The full governance platform
- Dedicated and isolated, not a shared cluster
- We handle upgrades and scaling
- Your region, agreed with the hosting
Not sure which edition you are running? The editions guide spells out exactly what ships in each image and how a licence is applied.
Which one are you?
Most teams start on the free Developer path and move to a Production licence when the first workflow goes live. Managed hosting is for teams that want the licensed platform without operating the cluster themselves.
| Developer | Production | Managed hosting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment and terms | |||
| Where it runs | Your machine or cluster | Your VPC, cloud, or on-prem | A dedicated cluster we run, in your region |
| Intended use | Evaluation, development, testing | Production | Production |
| Licence | None required | Commercial | Commercial |
| Who operates it | You | You | We do |
| Trial | Already free | 30-day licence on request | Discussed with the hosting |
| Commercial terms | None | Sized by request volume; no hard stop on overage | Sized by request volume and the hosting |
| Governance and safety | |||
| Policy | Policy-as-Code: dry-run, shadow, versioning, rollback | Same, with production rights and support | Same, operated for you |
| Audit | HMAC-signed and hash-chained; alteration detectable | Same, with production rights and support | Same, operated for you |
| PII and injection | Full guardrails and PII: regex, NER, embedded scanner, reversible tokenization, ML and HTTP plugins | Same | Same |
| Evidence reports | SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, India RBI / SEBI, for a date range | Same | Same |
| FinOps and routing | |||
| Cost | Per-request attribution by workspace, key and model | Same | Same |
| Budgets | Hard and soft caps, downgrade, chargeback | Same | Same |
| Routing | All eight strategies across 14 providers — weighted, latency-, cost-, canary-, geo-aware, capability-aware failover | Same | Same |
| Agentic, MCP and A2A | |||
| MCP Gateway | — | Registry, argument-level policy, PII on tool calls | Included |
| A2A Gateway | — | Peer registry, per-hop policy, own signed chain | Included |
| Agent controls | — | Approval gates, loop detection with kill switch | Included |
Common questions about DVARA pricing
Is the Developer tier really free?
Yes. Self-hosted, no sign-up, no credit card, no expiry and no feature gate — in development and in production alike. What a licence adds is the MCP and A2A governance planes, an SLA and a support contract.
What does a licence add?
The MCP and A2A governance planes, an SLA and a support contract. The LLM Gateway itself is free to run, production included — the paid boundary is support and the other two planes, never a feature gate on the gateway.
How much does a Production licence cost?
Pricing comes from a conversation rather than a public table. A licence is sized by request volume, and going over that volume does not stop your traffic — it starts a conversation about resizing, not a cut-off.
Can I evaluate the full platform before buying?
Yes. A 30-day trial licence unlocks every feature on your own self-hosted install, so you evaluate against your own traffic. It is requested rather than self-serve: book a slot, or email support@dvarahq.com.
Does DVARA phone home to check my licence?
No. Entitlement is a signed licence envelope validated locally — no callback, no revocation list, no required telemetry. That is what makes it usable in air-gapped and strict data-residency environments.
What is the difference between self-managed, managed hosting, and DVARA Cloud?
Self-managed means you run and operate DVARA in your own infrastructure, free to run yourself, with a licence when you need the MCP and A2A planes and support. Managed hosting means we run a dedicated cluster for you, arranged through sales. Self-serve DVARA Cloud is not available yet.
Still not sure which fits?
Tell us how you run AI today and we will tell you which edition covers it.
Free and self-hosted, production included. A licence adds the MCP and A2A planes with support.