The Calculator

the real cost of diy kubernetes

Estimate your deployment costs and resource needs in just a few clicks.

This calculator estimates the true cost of deploying and running a container platform across three approaches: DIY open source CNCF tooling), Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) and Portainer Business Edition.

By entering your platform size and key inputs below, the model will calculate labor, software and infrastructure costs based on real-world effort and staffing assumptions.

You'll see where Portainer reduces complexity, lowers cost and eliminates the need for specialist Kubernetes skills, helping you move faster with fewer people.

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On-Prem Kubernetes Made Easy for Retail IT Teams

"With Portainer, deployment time has decreased significantly. It takes very little time for developers to publish the apps into our production environment using the GUI”.

Suat Urgurlu, Associate Director, Technology Solutions & IT Security
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Empowering Customers with Self‑Service Container Management

“It’s actually quite easy. We never did it because we thought it would require a lot of Kubernetes knowledge, but it doesn’t.”

Remy Simons
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Modernizing Legacy Infrastructure: KIT’s Journey to Container‑Powered Research

“In the past, we had to go to Africa and install research tools on a server there and in most of the cases that never really worked because then something crashed and the people were gone. With Portainer, we just take a container and put it somewhere else.”

Christof Lorenz, Scientific Data Manager
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Transforming Legacy Infrastructure into Modern, Containerized Apps

"Within a week of having Portainer, we’ve been able to take deployment workflows from 2 hours to fully deploy, to 5 minutes."

Jim Bruce, Director of Technology
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Streamlining AI Development & Deployment at Scale with Portainer

"Per day, I spent an hour or two easily on deployments and now with Portainer and full use, that'll probably go down to at most 5-10 minutes."

Zoe Matre, DevOps Manager
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Enabling High Availability & Automation for Public-Facing Infrastructure

"I am able to quickly look at what’s going on, get a holistic view of everything. Very quickly I look at the stack and services – instead of digging up docker commands, it’s all automated."

Joshua O'Brien, Systems Engineer
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Digital Production Platform Service: Shopfloor Integration Management for VW

Volkswagen partnered with Portainer to help securely manage their apps on their Shopfloor Integration Management (SIM) infrastructure.

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Proctor & Gamble

P&G partners with Portainer to containerize their MES software

“It has taken time and some effort, but immediately the 20 users are already seeing major productivity gains."

Adefemi Ayaji, Application Platform Owner, Global
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Accelerating container adoption by 2 years at Inter-State Studio and Publishing

"We shaved a good two years off the adoption of containerization because we had Portainer."

Jason Plumhoff, Lead Developer and Software Architect
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Helping the University of Utah Streamline Infrastructure Across 35+ Labs

"Portainer is responsible for dropping my workload between 15 and 20% because I’m not going out and touching individual servers.”

Elliot Francis, Principal Software Engineer
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