Upbound
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Upbound, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Upbound's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | Free to install · open to all |
| Standard | $1,000 a month | Enhanced Runtime · Official Packages · Spaces · Identity IAM · RBAC · up to 5 control planes · up to 10 team members · basic support · Starting at $1,000/month* |
| Business Critical | Priced on request | Self-hosted Space, Console and Hub · advanced security · advanced hosting · dedicated support · Upbound Insights add-on · Custom Pricing |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Unlimited team members · unlimited control planes · enterprise security · fleet management · SSO/SAML · enterprise support · Custom Pricing |
The facts
Each one read from Upbound's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API and SDK extensibility
- Projects define custom resource APIs, compositions and reusable functions, with language options including KCL, Go and Python.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Backup and restore
- Console supports manual backups, scheduled backups and restore operations for control planes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- CLI
- The Up CLI supports project initialization, API scaffolding, composition functions, local runs, tests, builds and package pushes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Console
- Console is a web interface for viewing and managing Upbound products and control planes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Development tools
- Platform tooling includes control plane projects, IDE integration, unit and end-to-end testing, simulations, and instant development control planes.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Documentation depth
- Documentation includes guides, manuals, CLI how-tos, architecture, deployment prerequisites, IAM, production hardening and API references.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Fleet visibility
- Upbound Insights provides a live searchable view of resources across connected control planes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding
- Upbound describes itself as a Series B startup backed by GV, Altimeter Capital and Intel Capital, with $69 million raised.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- The platform offers full self-hosting, including air-gapped deployments, while the Business Critical tier lists self-hosted Space, Console, and Hub.checked 29 Sep 2026
- IDE integration
- Upbound provides a VS Code extension that activates in workspaces containing Crossplane packages.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Identity and RBAC
- Upbound IAM provides organization-wide identity and Kubernetes resource-level role-based access control, with viewer, editor and admin roles.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Infrastructure management
- Its control plane framework exposes infrastructure across clouds, vendors, and systems through a programmable API and manages resources to maintain a defined desired state.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Upbound Official Providers are pre-built enterprise-supported integrations for AWS, Azure, and GCP.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Limit: documentation and support
- A Reddit discussion reports that some users find Upbound documentation weak and professional support slow.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: provider access
- Reddit users complain that some provider versions or fixes are restricted to paid Upbound platform tiers and that upgrades can destabilize clusters.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Marketplace
- The marketplace supports provider, function, and configuration packages, with public and private listings, repository management, and package documentation.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Notable news: Upbound v3
- On August 19, 2026, Upbound announced v3 with fleet-wide governance, Insights, disaster recovery, SBOM/CVE marketplace data and air-gapped self-hosting.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Official integrations
- Official Providers supply supported integrations for AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, OpenTofu, Vault and other services.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Open-source licensing
- The archived Universal Crossplane repository is publicly available under Apache-2.0, but it is deprecated and current UXP development is internal.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founding
- Upbound was founded in 2017.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase lists the legal name as Upbound, Inc.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2017checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Upbound states that it is headquartered in San Mateo, California.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Crossplane foundation
- Upbound is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, a CNCF graduated open-source control-plane framework.checked 15 Oct 2026
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