Pricing
Ansible (Red Hat) pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
Reviewed pricing summary
- The open-source Ansible core is free under the GNU General Public License.
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is sold as an annual subscription priced per managed node.
- Red Hat does not publish official list prices; industry estimates place per-node pricing at approximately $100–$300+ per managed node per year depending on support tier (Self-Support, Standard, or Premium).
- G2 lists indicative Tower tiers at roughly $5,000/year (Basic), $10,000/year (Enterprise), and $14,000/year (Premium).
- Vendr transaction data indicates enterprise-wide AAP agreements can reach seven figures.
- Deployment options include self-managed on-premises, self-managed in public cloud, and Red Hat-managed cloud.
- No free trial is available for AAP; a trial download is available for evaluation.
Benchmark context
#12
of 12 in Infrastructure as Code
0.8%
AI search visibility
Sources and verification
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