Office and marketing manager at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
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Jun 23, 2026
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing made me think it was a little pricey; Google is much cheaper, and we don't have a very big budget because we're just a small association. It was a couple hundred dollars a month; I think it was only about $100 a month, and then all of a sudden it went up to $250, which is a crazy increase to do all at once.
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My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing made me think it was a little pricey; Google is much cheaper, and we don't have a very big budget because we're just a small association. It was a couple hundred dollars a month; I think it was only about $100 a month, and then all of a sudden it went up to $250, which is a crazy increase to do all at once.
Rackspace OpenStack offers a much cheaper licensing model compared to alternatives like VMware or other commercial solutions.
You were using the free version of OpenStack. You didn't have the license for it.
It's a low price compared to other solution providers and any other licensing options in the market.
I use it as an open-source tool.
The solution is free to use.