Shipping software into customer environments
Anyport vs Replicated
These are different products and the honest comparison starts there. Replicated exists so that a software vendor can hand an application to a customer who then installs and runs it, with licences, entitlements, air-gapped bundles, update channels and a support workflow around it. Anyport exists so that you can operate applications on clusters yourself.
If you are selling software that your customers install and administer, Replicated does things we have not built and are not building this year. If you operate the clusters, most of what Replicated charges for is machinery you do not need.
What both of them do
This much is common ground, so the table below is only about where they differ.
- The software ends up running on Kubernetes somebody else owns.
- Nothing has to be reachable from outside for either to work.
- Both can reach clusters inside a customer's premises.
Where they differ
The short answer first, and the detail underneath it where the short answer would otherwise mislead.
| Replicated | Anyport | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Replicated A distribution platform For vendors shipping software that customers run themselves. | Anyport A control plane For operating applications on clusters your own team is responsible for. |
| Runtime | Replicated Kubernetes in the customer's environment With an installer for customers who have none. | Anyport Kubernetes Anyport can install k3s on a bare machine if you do not have a cluster. |
| Who administers the application | Replicated Your customer Using tooling you ship them. | Anyport You do From one console, across every cluster you have connected. |
| Licensing and entitlements | Replicated A core feature Licences, expiry, entitlements and release channels. | Anyport Not built Anyport has no licensing model to hand to a customer. |
| Air-gapped installs | Replicated Supported With bundles for disconnected environments. | Anyport Not supported The agent needs a route out to reach the control plane. |
| What the environment must expose | Replicated Nothing inbound The customer installs it themselves. | Anyport Nothing inbound The agent dials out. |
| Price | Replicated From 2,000 dollars a month Plus per-licence fees, published on their site. | Anyport Free today Up to 10 private and 20 public clusters. Compute is never metered. |
| Compliance | Replicated An enterprise posture An established vendor selling into procurement. | Anyport Not certified yet Controls are published in full on the security page instead. |
What Replicated is
Taken from their own documentation, read on 4 September 2026.
Replicated is a software distribution platform for independent software vendors delivering applications into customer environments, including on-premises, private cloud and air-gapped ones.
It provides licensing and entitlements, release channels, installers for customers without Kubernetes expertise, observability into customer instances, and support escalation workflows.
Its published pricing is a Builders plan at 2,000 US dollars a month plus 50 dollars per licence per month, a Business plan at 3,000 dollars a month plus 200 dollars per licence per month, custom Enterprise pricing, and a Compatibility Matrix testing service at 500 dollars a month plus cluster costs.
Choose Replicated if
- You sell software that your customers install, license and administer themselves.
- You need air-gapped delivery. Anyport cannot do it, because the agent has to reach our control plane.
- You need per-customer licences, entitlements and expiry as a product feature.
- Your customers have no Kubernetes expertise and need an installer that hides all of it.
Choose Anyport if
- You operate the clusters, even when they sit inside customer premises, and you want one console over all of them.
- Your customers give you a cluster, not a support contract, and nobody expects them to administer the application.
- The per-licence pricing model does not describe your business.
- You want push-to-deploy, rollbacks, managed databases and HTTPS, rather than distribution machinery.
Questions
- Can Anyport deploy into an air-gapped environment?
- No. Anyport's agent has to reach our control plane over an outbound connection. That connection is the whole architecture, and an environment with no route out is one we cannot serve.
- Can Anyport manage clusters inside customers' networks?
- Yes, provided the cluster can make an outbound connection. That is the case Anyport is built for: one console over many customer clusters, no VPN into each site and no customer kubeconfig you have to hold. What it does not do is hand the customer a product they administer themselves.
- What does Anyport require of a cluster?
- A Kubernetes cluster you can run one command against, or a bare Linux machine where Anyport installs k3s first. No inbound port, no public IP, no load balancer that can obtain one, and no kubeconfig handed to us. The agent opens a connection outward and holds it open.
- What does Anyport cost?
- Every feature is free today, for everyone on your team, on up to 10 private clusters and 20 public ones. Compute is never metered because it is not ours. The one counted resource is traffic our gateway carries for clusters with no public address of their own, with an allowance of 10 GiB a month.
- Is Anyport audited or certified?
- Not yet. In place of a report, the security page documents what the agent runs with inside your cluster, what crosses the boundary and how secrets are stored, so a reviewer can evaluate the controls directly. Two of them hold regardless of certification: we never receive credentials for your Kubernetes API, and your workloads keep serving whether or not our control plane is reachable.
Sources
Read on 4 September 2026. If one of these pages now says something different, the source is right and this page is stale.
If Anyport is the one you want
Connecting a cluster is one command and takes a few minutes. Everything is free today, and the pricing page lists the limits that are actually enforced rather than the ones a plan would imply.