Distribution
Anyport vs Replicated
Replicated
Your customer
Using tooling you ship them.
Who administers the application
Anyport
You do
From one console, across every cluster you have connected.
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.
01Common ground
What both of them do
This much both products do, 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.
02The differences
Where they differ
Each row asks one question and sets the two answers across a seam. The highlighted row is the one this comparison turns on.
| Replicated | Question | Anyport |
|---|---|---|
Replicated A distribution platform For vendors shipping software that customers run themselves. | What it is | Anyport A control plane For operating applications on clusters your own team is responsible for. |
Replicated Kubernetes in the customer's environment With an installer for customers who have none. | Runtime | Anyport Kubernetes Anyport can install k3s on a bare machine if you do not have a cluster. |
Replicated Your customer Using tooling you ship them. | Who administers the application | Anyport You do From one console, across every cluster you have connected. |
Replicated A core feature Licences, expiry, entitlements and release channels. | Licensing and entitlements | Anyport Not built Anyport has no licensing model to hand to a customer. |
Replicated Supported With bundles for disconnected environments. | Air-gapped installs | Anyport Not supported The agent needs a route out to reach the control plane. |
Replicated Nothing inbound The customer installs it themselves. | What the environment must expose | Anyport Nothing inbound The agent dials out. |
Replicated From 2,000 dollars a month Plus per-licence fees, published on their site. | Price | Anyport $5/mo or $50/yr 3 clusters free, then $2 a month each, billed by the hour. Compute on your own clusters is never metered. |
Replicated An enterprise posture An established vendor selling into procurement. | Compliance | Anyport Not certified yet Controls are published in full on the security page instead. |
03The decision
Which one to choose
Each list is written to be true. If the first one describes you, the better product is theirs.
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.
04In their words
What Replicated is
Taken from their own documentation and pricing.
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.
05Questions
Questions people ask
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. With no cluster at all, Anyport Cloud runs one for you on Pro, billed for what your apps use.
What does Anyport cost?
Three clusters are free with every feature and unlimited members, apps and projects. Pro is $5 a month with $5 of credit back each month; clusters past the free three are $2 a month each, and clusters on Anyport Cloud $5, billed by the hour. Compute on your own clusters is never metered because it is not ours, and the one counted resource there is traffic our gateway carries for clusters with no public address of their own: 10 GB a month free, 100 GB on Pro, then $0.02 per GB. A cluster on Anyport Cloud runs on our hardware instead and is billed for what your apps use, at $12 per vCPU and $6 per GiB of memory a month, from credit.
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.
Start with three free.
Connecting a cluster is one command and takes a few minutes. Three clusters are free with every feature, and the pricing page works out what yours would cost.
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