You do not have a platform team. Realm9 is the one you would have hired.
Free forever, self-hosted, with audit logging and SSO included from day one — so the governance conversation with your first enterprise customer is a demo instead of a delay.
How a startup actually uses Realm9
Four things that hurt at fifteen engineers and become existential at fifty.
Stop paying for environments nobody is using
Non-production is routinely a third of an early cloud bill. Give every environment a TTL and an owner, and watch the bill fall without anyone changing how they work.
Let agents work without giving them the keys
Your coding agents need to run things. Give them a lease with a two-hour expiry and a $50 ceiling instead of an admin credential and a hope.
Pass your first security review
SSO, RBAC, audit logs and CIS scanning are in the free tier. When a prospect sends a 200-row security questionnaire, you have answers rather than a project.
Know your cost per customer before your board asks
Attribute spend to features, teams and customers from the beginning, so unit economics are a report rather than an archaeology exercise.
Keep the option to leave the cloud
When the bill makes owning hardware sensible, the workflow does not change. The same catalogue provisions a Proxmox VM and an EC2 instance.
Onboard engineer number twenty in an hour
A new joiner requests what they need from a catalogue instead of asking in Slack and waiting for whoever has the credentials.
The Realm9 Startup Program
For companies under 50 people and under $5M raised. Apply in five minutes; we review weekly.
- Team plan free for 12 months, including FinOps and the MCP Server
- A two-hour architecture session with a Realm9 engineer, not a sales engineer
- Migration help if you are moving off a spreadsheet, Atlantis or Terraform Cloud
- Direct Slack channel with the people who build the product
- No credit card, no commitment, and no automatic conversion at the end
Start with the free tier. Grow into the rest.
Nothing you build on the free plan needs rebuilding when you move up.