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Cloudvorn offers three engagement models — project-based, monthly retainer, and embedded SRE — so you can choose the structure that fits your budget, timeline, and operational needs. Every engagement includes a clear scope, defined deliverables, and no hidden fees.
Project-Based Engagements
Fixed-scope, fixed-price projects with defined deliverables and timelines. Ideal for teams that need a specific reliability outcome without an ongoing commitment.
Reliability Foundation Setup
Monitoring baseline, alerting, dashboards, health checks, severity matrix, and basic runbooks. Delivered in 2 weeks.
- Monitoring baseline configuration
- Key alert setup and tuning
- Core operational dashboard
- System health checks
- Incident severity matrix
- Basic operational runbooks
- 2-week delivery timeline
- Fixed-price engagement
Cloud Cost & Performance Review
Comprehensive cost analysis, rightsizing, waste identification, autoscaling assessment, and performance findings. Delivered in 1–2 weeks.
- Comprehensive cost analysis
- Rightsizing recommendations
- Waste identification report
- Autoscaling opportunity assessment
- Performance bottleneck findings
- 1–2 week delivery timeline
- Fixed-price or savings-based
- Actionable optimization roadmap
Incident Readiness Package
Alert routing, incident playbooks, escalation matrix, postmortem templates, and weekly review structure. Delivered in 2–3 weeks.
- Alert routing design
- Incident playbooks
- Escalation matrix
- Postmortem template and process
- Weekly incident review structure
- 2–3 week delivery timeline
- Fixed-price engagement
- Audit-ready documentation
Monthly Retainer Plans
Ongoing reliability support with predictable monthly pricing. Your team gets continuous access to Cloudvorn expertise — strategic guidance, hands-on engineering, and proactive reliability improvement.
Essential
$3,000/mo
- Alert tuning and maintenance
- Monthly incident review
- Dashboard maintenance
- Monthly reliability report
- Runbook updates
- Email advisory support
- Ideal for small teams
Growth
$5,500/mo
- Everything in Essential
- Biweekly incident reviews
- Proactive reliability optimization
- Biweekly reliability reporting
- Infrastructure advisory
- Priority response times
- Reliability roadmap input
- Ideal for growing teams
Mission-Critical
From $9,000/mo
- Everything in Growth
- Weekly incident reviews
- Advanced reliability engineering
- Weekly reporting and metrics
- Architecture advisory
- Fastest response SLA
- Custom scope and deliverables
- Dedicated reliability lead
- Ideal for mission-critical systems
Retainer Plan Comparison
| Feature | Essential | Growth | Mission-Critical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alert tuning & maintenance | |||
| Incident review cadence | Monthly | Biweekly | Weekly |
| Dashboard maintenance | |||
| Reliability reporting | Monthly | Biweekly | Weekly |
| Runbook updates | |||
| Proactive reliability optimization | — | ||
| Infrastructure advisory | — | ||
| Architecture advisory | — | — | |
| Reliability roadmap input | — | ||
| Dedicated reliability lead | — | — | |
| Priority response times | — | ||
| Custom scope & deliverables | — | — |
Embedded SRE Engineers
Senior reliability engineers who integrate directly with your team — attending standups, carrying tickets, building infrastructure, and shipping alongside your people. Not consultants on the sidelines. Engineers in the codebase.
Fractional Embedded SRE
Part-time SRE support for teams that need consistent reliability work without full-time cost.
- 10 hours per week of dedicated SRE time
- Monitoring and alert improvements
- Incident response support
- Reliability automation
- Biweekly status reporting
- Integrated into your team workflows
- 3-month minimum engagement
Fractional Embedded SRE
Half-time embedded SRE for teams with significant reliability work and growing operational demands.
- 20 hours per week of dedicated SRE time
- Comprehensive reliability engineering
- Incident management and response
- Infrastructure optimization
- Weekly status reporting
- Deep integration with your engineering team
- 3-month minimum engagement
Dedicated Contract SRE
Full-time, embedded reliability engineer working as a dedicated member of your team.
- 40 hours per week of dedicated SRE time
- Full-spectrum reliability engineering
- On-call and after-hours scoped separately
- Incident command and response leadership
- Infrastructure and architecture input
- Mentorship and knowledge transfer
- Weekly reporting and metrics
- 3-month minimum engagement
Principal / Lead Reliability Advisor
Senior reliability leadership and strategic guidance for teams that have capacity but need experienced direction.
- 5–8 hours per week of senior advisory
- Reliability architecture guidance
- SRE practice development
- Incident management strategy
- Team coaching and mentorship
- Executive-level reporting support
- 3-month minimum engagement
Pricing varies based on required expertise, tooling complexity, compliance requirements, and engagement length. All embedded SRE engagements begin with a scoping call to match the right engineer to your environment.
Need a Custom Engagement?
Not every reliability challenge fits neatly into a predefined package. If you need a blended engagement — combining project work, ongoing retainer support, and embedded engineering — we'll build a custom proposal scoped to your exact requirements, timeline, and budget.
Pricing Questions
Answers to the most common questions about Cloudvorn's pricing, engagement models, and what's included.
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