Editions & Capabilities
NudgeBee is available in three editions. They share the same codebase and documentation — this page is the source of truth for what each one includes.
| Community Community | Enterprise Enterprise | Cloud Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Free, source-available self-hosted edition. The Server is licensed under BSL 1.1 (converting to Apache 2.0 on change date); Agents are Apache 2.0. | Self-hosted with a commercial license. Adds enterprise features, SAML SSO, and SLA support. | Fully managed SaaS, hosted and operated by NudgeBee. |
| Where it runs | Your own Kubernetes cluster | Your own Kubernetes cluster | app.nudgebee.com |
| Container images | Public — ghcr.io/nudgebee (no authentication) | Licensed — registry.nudgebee.com | Managed for you |
| License key | Not required | Required | Managed in cloud account |
| Licensing | Free for internal production & operations | Commercial enterprise license | Commercial SaaS subscription |
| Best for | Teams that want full control and a zero-cost, self-hosted deployment. | Organizations that need SAML SSO, NudgeBee's managed models, and commercial support while self-hosting. | Teams that want to start in minutes without managing infrastructure. |
| Support | Community (GitHub Issues & Discussions) | Commercial support (SLA) | Commercial support (SLA) |
Not sure where to start? The Community edition is a production-capable self-hosted edition containing the complete core monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, workflow, and BYOM experience — the Semantic Knowledge Graph, cost optimizations, alerting, the Workflow Builder, and Autopilot all work out of the box. You can move to Enterprise or Cloud later without losing your configuration.
What's in the Community edition
The Community edition provides a comprehensive foundation for self-hosted Kubernetes operations. It includes:
- The NudgeBee Server (control plane, UI, API) and Agent
- The Semantic Knowledge Graph
- Cost optimizations and FinOps recommendations
- Troubleshooting, alerting, and the playbook catalog
- The Workflow Builder and Autopilot auto-runbooks
- Notifications (Slack, Teams, Google Chat) and ticketing integrations
- BYOM (Bring Your Own Model) LLM connectivity — OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI / Gemini, Ollama, Hugging Face, and SageMaker
- OAuth SSO — Google, Okta, OneLogin, Azure AD (and B2C), Auth0 — plus magic-link email and built-in credentials login
- Role-based access control, approval workflows, and audit trails
The Community edition is single-tenant by design — one organization per install. The chart provisions the tenant at install time and users are invited into it from the UI.
What requires Enterprise or Cloud
A small set of capabilities are not part of the free Community edition. Pages documenting these features are marked with an Enterprise or Cloud badge.
| Feature | Edition | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SAML 2.0 SSO | Enterprise Cloud | Community supports OAuth SSO (Google, Okta, OneLogin, Azure AD / B2C, Auth0), magic-link email, and credentials login — but the SAML 2.0 flow (with IdP-driven user provisioning and group-to-role mapping) is Enterprise-only. See Authentication. |
NudgeBee-managed & proprietary LLM/SLM models (nb-llm, nb-slm, nb-text-embeddings) | Enterprise Cloud | Community users connect their own model via BYOM. |
| Multi-tenant self-signup | Cloud | Community and Enterprise installs are single-tenant. The self-serve signup flow (creates a new tenant per signup) is exclusive to NudgeBee Cloud. |
| Cloud-marketplace billing (AWS / Azure subscriptions) | Cloud | Marketplace purchase callbacks and billing are SaaS-only. |
This boundary may evolve as the project grows. When it does, this page and the per-feature badges are updated together so the docs always reflect what's actually gated.
Licensing & Trademarks
- NudgeBee Server: Licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL 1.1). Free for non-competing production and internal operations, automatically converting to open source under Apache 2.0 after its change date.
- NudgeBee Agents & Ecosystem: The Kubernetes Agent (k8s-agent) and Proxy Agent (forager) are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
- Trademarks: The NudgeBee name and logo are trademarks. The licenses do not grant trademark rights — modified builds and forks must be renamed. See the trademark policy for what is allowed.
Commercial Inquiries & Pricing
For commercial licensing, enterprise SLAs, volume discounts, and Cloud subscription pricing, visit the NudgeBee Pricing Page or contact our sales team at [email protected].