# Okteto review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Development and preview environments on Kubernetes Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Okteto is a platform that gives developers self-service development, preview and test environments on Kubernetes, and isolated environments for coding agents. Scale and Enterprise are priced per user with no published figures, and a free Starter tier covers up to five users. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Okteto - **Website:** https://www.okteto.com - **Runs on:** macOS, Linux, Windows - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you don't run Kubernetes, since every tier is self-hosted. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Okteto has a free plan. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Starter is free for up to 5 users with unlimited environments, no credit card needed, self-hosted, with community forum support. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $0 | Up to 5 users, unlimited environments, self-hosted, community forum support. | | Scale | Custom | Unlimited users, RBAC, SSO with GitHub and Google, SOC 2 Type 2, ticketing support. Priced per user; contact for pricing. | | Enterprise | Custom | Adds OpenID Connect, an SLA, dedicated Slack support, and self-hosted or bring-your-own-cloud deployment. Contact sales. | Read from https://www.okteto.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Okteto before buying. ## Key features - **Development environments:** Self-service environments on Kubernetes with local-to-cloud code synchronization and remote debugging. - **Preview environments:** Shareable environments created with each pull request, and test environments that run tests directly inside them. - **Agent environments:** Coding agents run in their own isolated environments, with integration for coding agents on every tier. - **Divert:** Share one environment and deploy only the services you change, per the vendor's feature list. - **Cost controls:** Garbage collection and a resource manager on Scale and Enterprise; pricing is per user, never per environment. - **Access and audit:** Role-based access control, namespace and environment sharing, and audit logs of every action. ## Good for - Platform teams giving developers realistic Kubernetes environments - Small teams of up to five trying the free Starter tier ## Worth knowing - Scale and Enterprise prices are not published; you contact the vendor. - Starter has no SSO, RBAC, environment templates or cost controls; those need Scale. - OpenID Connect and the SLA need Enterprise, and SAML 2.0 is listed as coming soon. - All tiers are self-hosted; Enterprise adds a bring-your-own-cloud option. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Okteto runs development and preview environments on Kubernetes, with a free self-hosted Starter plan for up to 5 users. SSO, RBAC and cost controls need Scale, whose price isn't published, and it assumes you already run a cluster. - **Value for money: C.** Starter is free for up to 5 users but self-hosted, so it needs your own cluster, which counts as C. Scale and Enterprise prices aren't published. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Starter is free for up to 5 users with unlimited environments and no card. It is self-hosted with community forum support. - **Features: C.** Development, preview and agent environments, Divert and Kubernetes manifests. Starter has no SSO, RBAC, templates or cost controls, and SAML is listed as coming soon. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. It needs a Kubernetes cluster and manifests, so it is self-hosted and command-line driven. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A program for computers only: Mac, Linux and Windows. It connects to Kubernetes, GitHub, Google Workspace and OpenID Connect. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Okteto's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Okteto's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 49 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 99 of 122) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Okteto you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: audit logs and roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Kubernetes, GitHub, Google Workspace, OpenID Connect **Tags:** Self-hostable, AI agents ## Alternatives - [Northflank](https://toolgpa.com/tools/northflank): Container platform for services, jobs, databases and GPUs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/northflank-vs-okteto) - [Qovery](https://toolgpa.com/tools/qovery): Self-service deployment onto your own cloud or Kubernetes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/okteto-vs-qovery) - [Porter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/porter): App deployment into your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/okteto-vs-porter) - [Coolify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/coolify): Open-source platform to deploy apps and databases to your own servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/coolify-vs-okteto) - [Cloud 66](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cloud-66): Deploy and manage apps on your own servers and cloud accounts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloud-66-vs-okteto) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.okteto.com/pricing/ - https://www.okteto.com/docs/get-started/install-okteto-cli/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/okteto Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).