# Red Hat OpenShift (Harbor backend)

Official pricing: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/dedicated  
Category: paas · Isolation: container

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **OpenShift cluster pods** (resource) [alt]
- **OpenShift Dedicated worker subscription component** (resource): $0.04275/vCPU-h, $0/GiB-h

## Features

Yes: snapshots, persistent disk, what survives a stop, volumes, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), your own Docker/OCI image, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, static egress IP, self-hosting, BYOC, open source, SOC 2, HIPAA, SSO, GPU, arm64, Windows, Python, Node.js, live resize, EU data residency, snapshots on demand, inbound access rules, extra volumes, shared volumes

No: memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, whole disk survives a stop, idle auto-stop, start from your own snapshot, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, nested virtualization, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, macOS, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live fork (no pause), memory fork, MCP server, usage per sandbox (API), automatic snapshots, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), firewall inside (nftables), secret proxy, secret proxy for any API

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/openshift.json → feature_evidence

## Company

- Ownership: subsidiary (IBM)
- Stage: subsidiary [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat)
- Accelerators: none found
- Total raised: $34B (confirmed: Full acquisition price paid by IBM to purchase all outstanding Red Hat shares (not a venture funding round, but the definitive change-of-control transaction value)) [source](https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future)
- Last round: acquisition, $34B, 2019-07, led by IBM (confirmed) [source](https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future)
- Investors: IBM, Greylock
- Revenue: $67.5B (confirmed: IBM (parent company) total revenue per company financials, cited via Wikipedia infobox; Red Hat/OpenShift-specific revenue is not broken out separately by IBM) [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM) annual revenue, 2025

Red Hat OpenShift is a product of Red Hat, Inc., which has been a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM since the $34B acquisition closed in July 2019. Red Hat itself was previously an independent public company (NYSE: RHT) founded in 1993. No standalone revenue figure for OpenShift or Red Hat is disclosed by IBM post-acquisition; the revenue figure above is for IBM as a whole, per task guidance for subsidiaries of larger companies.

## Caveats

- Harbor adapter runs workload on customer OpenShift cluster. Licence/controlplane and worker infrastructure are not free or included in a universal sandbox hourlyprice.
- Not fully priceable in ENGINE_CARD: unknown USD resource rates or machine shape. Null is not zero; do not rank as a free provider.
- Features set to null were not verified. No sandbox was purchased or tested; feature/performance statements are documentation claims. Null maximums are unknown unless a cited note explicitly states unlimited.
- A complete monthly bill requires known snapshot/egress/plan limits; do not silently treat missing ancillary charges as free.
- OpenShift Dedicated prices are annual subscriptions shown as hourly equivalents ("Hourly pricing for illustration purposes; customers are billed annually.") with a "Minimum worker node configuration required"; the modeled per-hour rate understates a small or bursty workload, and cloud infrastructure is not included.
- Red Hat build of Agent Sandbox (a Technology Preview in OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.13) is Red Hat's own agent sandbox operator: "Red Hat build of Agent Sandbox provides a Kubernetes-native platform for managing isolated, stateful workloads such as AI agent runtimes and development environments", with SandboxTemplate, SandboxClaim and SandboxWarmPool APIs to "manage the sandbox lifecycle, including creation, timeouts, pause, and resume" and optional hardware-level isolation via OpenShift sandboxed containers. Not modeled: it is a preview with no separate published price; the card's features (pause_resume false, container isolation) describe the Harbor pod mode.

## How this provider charges


As of 2026-09-28. Prices are USD unless explicitly labelled otherwise. Source type: official published list/promo or unknown, never a fabricated quote.

Harbor adapter runs workload on customer OpenShift cluster. Licence/controlplane and worker infrastructure are not free or included in a universal sandbox hourlyprice.

| Regime | When it applies | How billed / numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-managed | OpenShift subscription plus own nodes | Licence quote + VM/baremetal/storage/network. | https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/pricing |
| Managed OpenShift | Cloud-specific service | ROSA/ARO/etc not interchangeable prices. | https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/pricing |

## Gotchas

- Harbor adapter runs workload on customer OpenShift cluster. Licence/controlplane and worker infrastructure are not free or included in a universal sandbox hourlyprice.
- Not fully priceable in ENGINE_CARD: unknown USD resource rates or machine shape. Null is not zero; do not rank as a free provider.
- Features set to null were not verified. No sandbox was purchased or tested; feature/performance statements are documentation claims. Null maximums are unknown unless a cited note explicitly states unlimited.
- A complete monthly bill requires known snapshot/egress/plan limits; do not silently treat missing ancillary charges as free.

## Worked workload

4 vCPU / 8 GiB; 50 simultaneous instances × 8 h/day × 22 days = **8,800 instance-hours**, **35,200 vCPU-hours**, **70,400 GiB-hours**. At 30% observed CPU:10,560 active-vCPU-hours only where the meter actually uses utilization. Assume one start/instance/day:1,100starts. Retain50GiB snapshots for a month;100GiB outbound. Active disk capacity was not specified.

A numerical total is not defensible from the public evidence. Need an eligible4/8 machine rate, C50 and8h limits, snapshot retention/price and network tariff. Resource template:35,200×CPU_rate×(0.30 if active else1)+70,400×RAM_rate+plan+50×snapshot_rate+max(0,100−free_egress)×egress_rate. Unknown inputs stay unknown, not zero.

## Sources

- https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/pricing
- https://github.com/laude-institute/harbor/blob/main/src/harbor/environments/openshift.py