FrontCache
The FrontCache engine is free and always will be. What we sell is what an operations team needs at scale, support with a response time on it, and the work of getting your hit ratio where it should be.
Subscriptions
The caching itself is free. Subscriptions cover operations at scale — authentication, cluster coordination, observability, LTS builds, and an SLA.
Evaluation, side projects, and single-node deployments.
Teams running 2–10 production nodes.
Everything in Community, plus:
Large fleets, regulated buyers, and anyone whose procurement needs an MSA.
Everything in Pro, plus:
Agencies, MSPs, and hosting providers running many client sites.
Services
Fragment decomposition, TTL design, and header instrumentation are where the offload actually comes from. We do that work, and we quantify it first.
$9,500 fixed fee · 2 weeks
We review your application and report how it works for you — no generic benchmark.
$30k–$75k
We do the integration work end to end, then prove it under load before you rely on it.
from $2,500 / month
Eternita operates the nodes — in your own cloud account, so no HTML leaves your infrastructure. Combines with a Pro subscription.
$5,000 / day
A working session with your platform team so they can own fragment design and invalidation after we leave.
Why These Numbers
Not against other caches. A 6× throughput gain means roughly one sixth of the app tier — and the database, search tier, and third-party API calls behind it see the same cut.
Pro at $3.6k per node sits deliberately below "call for a quote" territory, so it can be bought without a committee. Enterprise sits where an MSA is worth the paperwork. Comparable commercial caches land in the low tens of thousands per year; enterprise CDN contracts run $50k–$500k and up.
Open Core
The caching itself is never behind a paywall. The 98.7% number is the whole argument, and it has to be reproducible by anyone with Docker.
The LTS build is the cleanest example of the line we draw: the open build targets the current JDK, and most enterprise JVM fleets are on 17 or 21. A supported backport is a legitimate paid artifact — not a crippled free one.
Details
One running FrontCache instance in production — a standalone process or an application instance with the filter enabled. Non-production environments are not counted.
No. The Community tier is free and genuinely complete for caching. Run the Docker quickstart, replay your own access log, and read the headers before you talk to us.
You keep the report either way — your hit ratio, your fragment plan, and your projected saving. If you do subscribe, the full $9,500 is credited against your first year.
Card or invoice for Pro. Enterprise is invoiced against a PO with an MSA. Partner and OEM arrangements are contracted per agreement.
No. FrontCache is self-hosted, including under Managed FrontCache, which runs in your own cloud account. That is the point for data-residency and regulated buyers.
Get In Touch
Send us an access log and we will tell you what fraction of your traffic is cacheable and what that is costing you. We respond within one business day.