Pricing

Choose the operating model—not a mystery bundle.

Cardean's edition model separates open infrastructure, supported self-management and managed operation.

Cardean Open

For teams that want to evaluate and operate the core product themselves.

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Public source and licence for included components
Community documentation
Self-managed deployment
Public issue and discussion channels
No contracted response or operational commitment

Cardean Pro

For organisations operating Cardean in their own environment with commercial support and advanced organisational controls.

Start with a pilot

Supported releases and upgrade guidance
Organisation, policy and administrative capabilities
Security and maintenance notifications
Contracted support
Deployment and procurement documentation

Cardean Cloud

For teams that want Cardean to operate the service.

Managed deployment and upgrades
Service monitoring and incident communication
Hosted administration
Usage-based infrastructure where applicable
Enterprise contracting and assurance path

Productised Gateway pilot

Prove one governed AI workflow.

The pilot is how Cardean Pro starts: a bounded, fixed-scope engagement that puts one real workflow under policy on your infrastructure. A pilot includes:

Architecture and control-boundary workshop
One application or service
Approved model and provider configuration
Identity, budget and data-handling policy
Integration and operating guidance
Evidence and findings review
Agreed success criteria and next-step recommendation

Pilot duration, fees and any credit toward a subsequent agreement are confirmed during scoping.

Request pilot scope