Transparent Pricing. No Guesswork.
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.
DevOps & Cloud — Project Engagements
Fixed-price platform engineering, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud architecture engagements. Scoped tightly with clear deliverables — no T&M billing, no scope creep, no junior engineers learning on your dime.
DevOps & Platform Foundation
Infrastructure-as-Code baseline, standardized environments, secrets management, and developer onboarding playbook. Delivered in 2–3 weeks.
- Infrastructure-as-Code baseline (Terraform or equivalent)
- Standardized dev / staging / production environments
- Secrets management with rotation pattern
- Developer onboarding documentation
- Cloud account structure with least-privilege IAM
- Foundational platform runbook
- 2–3 week delivery timeline
- Fixed-price engagement
CI/CD Pipeline Modernization
Modern CI/CD with quality gates, rollback workflows, and progressive delivery. Hours-to-minutes deployment time. Delivered in 3 weeks.
- Modern CI/CD pipeline configured for your stack
- Automated test, lint, security, and build stages
- Production deployment with rollback gates
- Environment promotion (dev → staging → prod)
- Deployment runbook (releases, hotfixes, rollbacks)
- Pipeline observability and alerting integration
- 3-week delivery timeline
- Fixed-price engagement
Kubernetes Platform Setup
Production-ready Kubernetes platform on EKS, GKE, or AKS. GitOps deployment, observability, and platform hardening. Delivered in 4 weeks.
- EKS / GKE / AKS cluster design and bootstrap
- Networking, ingress, and service mesh setup
- RBAC, network policies, and pod security
- Argo CD or Flux for GitOps deployment
- Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OTel)
- Cluster operations runbook
- 4-week delivery timeline
- Fixed-price engagement
Cloud Migration Assessment
Discovery, dependency mapping, target architecture, migration roadmap, and risk register. Delivered in 2 weeks.
- Current-state discovery and dependency mapping
- Target cloud architecture proposal
- Phased migration roadmap with timelines
- Risk register and mitigation strategies
- Cost projection across providers
- Tooling and platform recommendations
- 2-week delivery timeline
- Fixed-price engagement
DevOps & Cloud Retainers
Ongoing platform engineering capacity. Monthly retainers for teams that want continuous DevOps improvement, advisory, and incremental work — without hiring a full platform team.
Essential DevOps
$3,500/mo
- Infrastructure & pipeline maintenance
- Monthly platform improvements
- IaC module updates and refactoring
- Monthly platform health report
- Email advisory support
- Documentation upkeep
- Ideal for small platform teams
Growth DevOps
$6,500/mo
- Everything in Essential
- Biweekly platform optimization sprints
- Proactive cost & performance tuning
- Biweekly platform metrics reporting
- Architecture advisory
- Priority response times
- Platform roadmap input
- Ideal for growing engineering orgs
Enterprise DevOps
From $11,000/mo
- Everything in Growth
- Weekly optimization sprints
- Multi-cloud / multi-account expertise
- Weekly metrics & business reporting
- Compliance & security architecture
- Fastest response SLA
- Custom scope & deliverables
- Dedicated platform lead
- Ideal for regulated or mission-critical platforms
Embedded DevOps & Platform Engineers
Senior platform engineers embedded with your team — fractional or full-time. All engagements have a 3-month minimum with structured onboarding.
Fractional Embedded DevOps
3 months minimum
Part-time platform engineer for teams that need consistent DevOps capacity without full-time cost.
- 10 hours per week of senior platform engineering time
- IaC and pipeline improvements
- Cloud infrastructure work
- Deployment automation
- Biweekly status reporting
- Integrated into your engineering workflows
- 3-month minimum engagement
Fractional Embedded DevOps
3 months minimum
Half-time embedded platform engineer for teams with significant DevOps and infrastructure work.
- 20 hours per week of senior platform engineering
- Comprehensive IaC and platform engineering
- CI/CD and deployment automation
- Cloud architecture and optimization
- Weekly status reporting
- Deep integration with your engineering team
- 3-month minimum engagement
Dedicated Contract DevOps Engineer
3 months minimum
Full-time, embedded platform engineer working as a dedicated member of your team.
- 40 hours per week of dedicated platform engineering
- Full-spectrum DevOps and cloud engineering
- On-call coverage scoped separately
- Architecture leadership and design review
- Mentorship and knowledge transfer
- Weekly reporting and metrics
- 3-month minimum engagement
Principal / Lead Platform Advisor
3 months minimum
Senior platform leadership and strategic guidance for teams that have capacity but need experienced architectural direction.
- 5–8 hours per week of senior advisory
- Platform architecture guidance
- DevOps practice development
- Cloud strategy and cost governance
- Team coaching and mentorship
- Executive-level reporting support
- 3-month minimum engagement
Reliability + DevOps Bundles
Most growing organizations need both reliability engineering and a real platform foundation — coordinated, not stitched together from separate vendors. Bundles deliver both as a single program with bundle savings, a single program lead, and unified handoff documentation.
Single Program
One contract, one lead
Coordinated Delivery
Tracks run in parallel, not in series
Bundle Savings
Up to $4,500 off vs separate
Unified Handoff
One runbook, one doc set
Starter Operations Bundle
Reliability + DevOps essentials for early-stage teams
$14,000
$11,500Save $2,500
Everything an early-stage team needs to operate cloud infrastructure with confidence — combining the Reliability Foundation Setup and the DevOps & Platform Foundation into a single coordinated engagement.
Best For
Startups and SMEs running production systems but missing both monitoring and platform foundations.
What is included
Reliability Foundation Setup
- Monitoring baseline & key alerts
- Core operational dashboard
- Incident severity matrix
- Basic operational runbooks
DevOps & Platform Foundation
- Infrastructure-as-Code baseline
- Standardized environments
- Secrets management
- Cloud account structure & IAM
Engagement details
- 4–5 week coordinated delivery
- Single project lead across both workstreams
- Unified handoff documentation
- $2,500 bundle savings
- Fixed-price engagement
Growth Operations Bundle
Reliability + DevOps + Incident Readiness for scaling teams
$27,000
$22,500Save $4,500
The complete operational baseline for growing engineering organizations — reliability foundation, DevOps platform foundation, modern CI/CD pipelines, and structured incident response. Delivered as a single coordinated program.
Best For
Growing SaaS companies and SMEs hiring engineers fast and needing a complete platform + reliability baseline.
What is included
Reliability Foundation Setup
- Monitoring baseline & alerting
- Operational dashboards
- Severity matrix & runbooks
DevOps & Platform Foundation
- IaC baseline (Terraform or equivalent)
- Standardized environments
- Secrets management & IAM
CI/CD Pipeline Modernization
- Modern CI/CD with quality gates
- Rollback workflows
- Environment promotion strategy
Incident Readiness Package
- Alert routing & escalation matrix
- Incident playbooks
- Postmortem process & weekly reviews
Engagement details
- 8–10 week coordinated delivery
- Single program lead across all workstreams
- Unified runbook & documentation set
- $4,500 bundle savings
- Audit-ready outputs (SOC 2 / HIPAA-friendly)
- Fixed-price engagement
Enterprise Operations Bundle
Custom-scoped multi-track program for enterprise & regulated orgs
A custom-scoped program combining reliability engineering, DevOps platform foundations, Kubernetes, compliance-aware cloud architecture, and ongoing embedded capacity. Designed for enterprise, public-sector, and regulated organizations with multi-quarter operational programs.
Best For
Enterprise, public-sector, and regulated organizations with multi-track operational programs and compliance requirements.
What is included
Reliability Engineering
- Reliability architecture review
- Incident management program design
- SLO / SLI framework
DevOps & Platform
- Multi-account / multi-region cloud architecture
- Kubernetes platform engineering
- Compliance-aware IAM & secrets
Ongoing Capacity
- Embedded reliability engineer (fractional or full-time)
- Embedded platform engineer (fractional or full-time)
- Principal-level architectural advisory
Compliance & Governance
- SOC 2 / HIPAA / FedRAMP-aware patterns
- Audit-ready documentation
- Change management process design
Engagement details
- Custom multi-quarter program
- Dedicated program manager + senior engineers
- Discovery workshop included
- Tiered pricing on multi-track engagements
- Procurement-friendly contracting (NET-30, MSA + SOW)
- Public-sector subcontracting support
Can bundles be paid monthly?
Yes — Starter and Growth bundles can be split into 2 or 3 monthly invoices. Enterprise bundles are typically structured around milestones.
What if I only need part of a bundle?
Pick the individual project engagements above. Bundles are for teams that benefit from coordinated multi-track delivery and bundle savings.
Can a bundle include embedded engineers?
Yes — the Enterprise bundle includes embedded SRE and platform engineers. We can also extend Starter or Growth bundles with embedded capacity.
Need a custom combination? We design custom multi-track programs for enterprise and public-sector buyers. Discuss a custom program.
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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