Portainer
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Portainer, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Portainer's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Business Edition free tier | Free | up to 3 nodes · no credit card · full features · no time limit |
| Home & Student | $155 a year | up to 15 nodes · non-commercial personal use only · Community Support · not available to companies · per year |
| Starter | $1,045 a year | 5, 10, or 15 nodes · community support · up to 16 vCPUs per node · online purchase only · billed annually |
| Scale | $2,095 a year | 5 to 25 nodes · 9x5 next-business-day support · up to 24 vCPUs per node · vendor onboarding · reseller availability · billed annually |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | 32 to unlimited vCPUs per node · production and non-production nodes · prioritized 9x5 support with 24/7 option · assigned support engineer · security assessment report · TAA compliance certificate · priced for your organization |
The facts
Each one read from Portainer's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- Business Edition features include role-based access control, LDAP and OAuth authentication, Active Directory user sync, and SSO provider templates.checked 30 Sep 2026
- API
- Portainer exposes an HTTP REST API that automates UI operations and can proxy requests to underlying Docker and Kubernetes APIs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- API access uses per-user access tokens sent in the X-API-Key header, with permissions matching the user account.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API documentation depth
- Separate versioned API references exist for Business Edition and Community Edition, with additional command examples.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Audit and logging
- The feature list includes authentication and activity logs and Syslog export for centralized logging.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Business licence
- Business Edition is distributed under a proprietary commercial agreement rather than the Community Edition zlib licence.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Community licence
- The Portainer Community Edition repository is released under the permissive zlib license.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Container management
- The platform manages container workloads, images, networks, volumes and application stacks from one console.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment controls
- Business Edition lists fleet governance policies, automatic policy drift remediation, resource quotas, pod security constraints, and ITSM-aligned change windows.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Documentation and support
- Documentation covers installation, configuration, APIs and troubleshooting; community users use forums, Slack, GitHub and an AI bot, while paid customers receive ticket support governed by SLA.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Fleet governance
- Business Edition provides fleet governance policies, automatic drift remediation, policy deployment and centralized multi-environment management.checked 15 Oct 2026
- GitOps
- Deployments can use Git repositories, automatic GitOps updates, webhooks, stored shared credentials, deployment gates and code-only deployment enforcement.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Identity and access
- Business Edition includes RBAC, LDAP and OAuth authentication, Active Directory synchronization, SSO templates, authentication logs and activity logs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The product pages identify Talos Omni integration for provisioning Kubernetes clusters and support deployment from Helm charts.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Kubernetes features
- Kubernetes tooling includes workload, volume and network management, kubeconfig imports, resource quotas, pod-security constraints, rolling restarts and Talos provisioning through Omni.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License limit
- Starter and Scale subscriptions have fixed node counts for their term and can be adjusted at renewal; Enterprise licenses allow mid-term node additions.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Limit: backups and logs
- G2 reviewers cite missing Docker-volume backup support, dated container-log tooling and weak failed-deployment notifications.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Kubernetes depth
- G2 reviewers report that advanced Kubernetes manifests and CRDs can exceed the UI's capabilities and require kubectl or another dashboard.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: TrustRadius themes
- TrustRadius reviewers identify Active Directory setup and Kubernetes support as areas needing improvement.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company facts
- LinkedIn lists Portainer.io as privately held, founded in 2017, headquartered in Auckland and employing 51-200 people.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The Business Edition agreement identifies the maker as Portainer.io Limited, an Auckland, New Zealand company.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company location
- The Portainer website says it is proudly made in New Zealand.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Auckland, New Zealandchecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Limit: Android app
- A Google Play reviewer reported certificate-verification failures when connecting the mobile app to a self-signed Portainer server.checked 15 Oct 2026
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