# Pipekit

Official pricing: https://pipekit.io/pricing  
Category: dev-env · Isolation: container

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Native product; see regime notes** (resource) [alt]

## Features

Yes: ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), your own Docker/OCI image, self-hosting, BYOC, SSO, arm64, Python, scheduled runs (cron), audit logs, EU data residency, MCP server

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, persistent disk, whole disk survives a stop, volumes, 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, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, static egress IP, open source, SOC 2, HIPAA, GPU, Windows, macOS, Node.js, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, usage per sandbox (API), automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), inbound access rules, firewall inside (nftables), secret proxy, secret proxy for any API, extra volumes, shared volumes

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

## Company

- Ownership: independent
- Stage: seed [source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pipekit)
- Accelerators: Y Combinator Summer 2021 [source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pipekit)
- Total raised: unknown
- Last round: unknown (unknown)
- Revenue: unknown

Company: Pipekit, founded 2020 by Caelan Urquhart and J.P. Zivalich, backed by Y Combinator (S21/Summer 2021, batch status 'Active' per YC directory). Product: managed control plane for Argo Workflows (Kubernetes-native data/CI pipelines); BYO-cluster model, pricing from $799/cluster/month plus enterprise self-hosted tier. Domain https://pipekit.io matches the YC company page exactly, confirming this is the same entity as the pricing card. Could not confirm any specific funding round, amount, investor names, or revenue figures within the research time budget — standard web search engines (DuckDuckGo, Bing, Google, Crunchbase) were largely unreachable or returned captchas/irrelevant results from this environment. A buyer should treat funding/stage here as an inference from YC participation only, not a confirmed figure.

## Caveats

- Chrome pricing: BYO cluster control plane starts $799/cluster/month; 30-day trial. Customer runs compute; Pipekit archives workflow logs, exposes UI/API and SSO/RBAC. Enterprise self-hosted/air-gapped control plane and support custom. $799 is NOT included compute hardware.
- Null values mean unknown, not free/unlimited. No model-token cost, tax or unverified ancillary charge included.
- Native browser/device/task/credit prices with unknown CPU/RAM are deliberately non-priceable. Check regime before interpreting any partial resource estimate.
- Free trial: 30 days, no credit card; Pipekit can provision a Pipekit-hosted free-trial cluster (not a VM/sandbox): default limits 200m CPU / 200Mi memory / 100Mi ephemeral storage per container unless overridden, overall CPU/memory/storage caps that 'cannot be increased', no persistent storage, activeDeadlineSeconds 3600 default, no guarantees of availability. free.* stays null/0 (trial, not credit).
- Two deployment models: Pipekit Cloud (hosted control plane) and Self-Hosted (Helm, air-gap capable, requires a license key from sales; licenses expire). A separate 'Pipekit Support Service' (SLA-backed Argo maintainer support) is sold by meeting only; no price published.

## How this provider charges


YC: Summer 2021; directory status **Active**. Research scope: public-product-researched. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pipekit

Managed Argo Workflows

## Regime table

| Regime | When it applies | How billed | Numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native product; see regime notes | Incomplete or non-resource economics: rates remain null, never interpreted as free. | resource; CPU alloc, memory alloc | Unknown or native-unit billing; see facts below | https://pipekit.io/pricing |
| BYO cluster starting price | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=799; included usage=$None; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://pipekit.io/pricing |
| Enterprise | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=None; included usage=$None; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://pipekit.io/pricing |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://pipekit.io/pricing |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://pipekit.io/pricing |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://pipekit.io/pricing |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://pipekit.io/pricing |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Chrome pricing: BYO cluster control plane starts $799/cluster/month; 30-day trial. Customer runs compute; Pipekit archives workflow logs, exposes UI/API and SSO/RBAC. Enterprise self-hosted/air-gapped control plane and support custom. $799 is NOT included compute hardware.

## Worked example

Requested: 4 vCPU/8 GiB, 50 simultaneous × 8 h/day × 22 days = **8,800 instance-hours**, 30% CPU; 50 GiB snapshots and 100 GiB egress. A month is 730 hours only when explicitly used in rate conversion.

**Total: unknown.** This product does not publish a verified complete 4-vCPU/8-GiB tariff and/or the service bills a different unit. Fifty concurrent instances and eight-hour sessions are not automatically supported. Neither 30% utilization nor retained snapshots can be converted into free resources. Use the native plan terms above and request the missing CPU/RAM, retention, egress and concurrency quote.

## Sources and coverage

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pipekit
- https://pipekit.io/pricing
- https://pipekit.io/

Page captures and documentation indexes/bundles are in `raw/`; provider JSON lists the evidence paths. HN query results were captured separately as `<id>--hn.txt`; they are discovery leads, not current tariff authority. Downloaded docs do not imply every feature was verified; unsupported assertions remain null.