Pricing Philosophy

You pay for your cloud. Not ours.

Lakerunner runs entirely in your VPC. There is no SaaS, no data leaving your network, no metered pricing that punishes you for querying your own data. You license the software and run it on your infrastructure.

What you pay Cardinal

Software License

Perpetual license to run Lakerunner in your VPC. Includes all signal types (logs, metrics, traces), unlimited retention, unlimited queries, and all future updates during your license term.

Support Contract

Managed deployment assistance, upgrades, capacity planning, and incident support. We help you size, deploy, and operate Lakerunner as if it were our own infrastructure.

What runs in your VPC

Object Storage

Primary data store. Parquet format, highly compressed.

~$0.023/GB/mo

PostgreSQL (RDS/CloudSQL)

Lightweight metadata index and config. Two small databases.

~$50–150/mo

Kubernetes Compute

Ingestion workers + query API. Auto-scales with KEDA, idles when quiet.

Scales with volume

LLM (AWS Bedrock / Google Vertex / Azure OpenAI)

AI-powered analysis runs against your own cloud LLM endpoints. No data leaves your VPC.

Per-token pricing

Size your deployment

Use the interactive wizard to generate a production-ready Helm configuration for your VPC.

No SaaS. No metered queries. No data egress. Your VPC, your rules.