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Cycloid: cost, fit and limits
Cycloid is a platform engineering product made by Cycloid.io that lets platform teams publish infrastructure blueprints, forms and orchestration for developers, with scorecards, an AI assistant and an MCP server, sold per user. It is sold per user in euros, dollars or pounds.
What to know first
Cycloid lists three tiers in euros, dollars and pounds: Free at zero for up to 5 users on SaaS, Advanced at EUR 39 per user per month billed annually, and Enterprise at EUR 99 per user while its heading reads Custom Pricing. The site footer says Made in France, but no opened page gave a registered address. Self-hosted, air-gapped and sovereign deployments appear on the product pages.
Cycloid at a glance
| Maker | Cycloid.io (legal entity name not stated on opened pages), Not stated on the vendor pages |
|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes |
| Entry price | EUR 39 per user per month (Advanced, billed annually) |
| API access | No |
| Category | Best AI Internal Developer Platforms in 2026, rank 4 of 12 |
| Website | cycloid.io |
Who Cycloid is best for
Small platform groups wanting a free start
Free includes blueprints, forms, orchestration, RBAC, SSO and MFA for 5 users and one workspace, so a pilot needs no purchase order.
Teams that want promotion gates
Advanced adds scorecard gates on promotion paths, dashboards and analytics, which lets a platform team block a release from moving up an environment until standards pass.
Organizations with sovereignty requirements
The product pages offer self-hosted, air-gapped or sovereign cloud deployment, and Enterprise lists dedicated SaaS, which fits buyers who cannot use shared hosting.
Cycloid plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | EUR 0 per user per month (also $0 and GBP 0) | Blueprints, forms and orchestration, native RBAC, SSO and MFA, with SaaS hosting for up to 5 users and 1 workspace. |
| Advanced | EUR 39 per user per month ($45, GBP 33), billed annually | SaaS or self-hosted, unlimited workspaces, dashboards, scorecards and analytics, scorecard gates on promotion paths, AI assistant, delegable permissions and open-hours support. |
| Enterprise | EUR 99 per user per month, billed annually (heading says Custom Pricing) | SaaS, self-hosted or dedicated SaaS, custom and embedded plugins, access policies and approval, 24/7 support with an SLA and volume discounts. |
Checked November 2026.
What Cycloid does
- Blueprints and forms
- Platform teams publish blueprints that developers fill in through forms, with orchestration running underneath, so requests follow a template rather than a ticket. Developers get a form instead of a ticket, and the Free plan already includes these building blocks for up to 5 users.
- Scorecard gates
- On Advanced, scorecards can gate promotion paths, which ties maturity checks to the actual movement of a release between environments. That gives a platform team a rule of the form: no promotion to production until the service meets the scorecard threshold.
- Delegable permissions
- Advanced lists delegable permissions, letting a platform team hand scoped rights to project owners without granting full admin access. That reduces admin bottlenecks in larger teams, though the opened pages do not describe how fine-grained the delegation can be.
- AI assistant and MCP server
- The pricing page names an AI assistant on Advanced and an MCP server so users can work with their own AI assistant against the platform.
- Flexible hosting
- SaaS, self-hosted, dedicated SaaS and air-gapped options are named across plans and product pages, which is wider than most hosted-only competitors list. Teams with data residency rules should still confirm which option applies to which tier, because the comparison table could not be read in full.
How Cycloid handles your data
The privacy policy is the only data page we opened for Cycloid. It does not state whether customer data trains models, gives no retention periods and names no hosting region for the hosted service. No security certification is stated; the page links to a B Corp certification, which is a corporate-responsibility label rather than a security audit. The footer says Made in France, but no opened imprint or terms page gave a registered address, so the legal entity behind the service remains unconfirmed.
Where Cycloid falls short in practice
- . The Enterprise column shows EUR 99 per user per month while its heading reads Custom Pricing, and the page does not explain how the two relate.
- . Free stops at 5 users and one workspace on SaaS, so any team beyond a pilot has to move to Advanced and pay per user.
- . The comparison table checkmarks did not survive text extraction, so which features sit on which tier could not be fully confirmed. Buyers should ask which features sit on Free, Advanced and Enterprise before building a business case on a feature that may be gated.
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Cycloid: common questions
How much does Cycloid cost per user?
Advanced is EUR 39 per user per month billed annually, or $45 or GBP 33 in the other currencies shown. Enterprise displays EUR 99 per user while the heading says Custom Pricing. Free costs nothing for up to 5 users on SaaS hosting with one workspace.
Where is Cycloid based?
The opened pages do not state a headquarters country. The footer says Made in France, but that is a branding line rather than a registered address. If jurisdiction matters, ask Cycloid for its legal entity name and registered office before signing, since the privacy policy we opened did not give them.
Does Cycloid support self-hosting?
Yes. Advanced is described as SaaS or self-hosted, Enterprise adds dedicated SaaS, and the product pages mention self-hosted, air-gapped and sovereign cloud deployment. The opened pages do not give installation requirements, so request architecture documents to compare with your environment.
What does the Cycloid free plan include?
Free costs EUR 0 per user and includes blueprints, forms and orchestration plus native RBAC, SSO and MFA. It is limited to SaaS hosting for up to 5 users and 1 workspace, so it works for a pilot but not for rolling out to a whole engineering group.
Does Cycloid have an AI assistant?
The pricing page names an AI assistant on Advanced and an MCP server for working with outside assistants. It does not publish usage limits, model providers or retention for prompts, so confirm those details with the vendor if your policy covers AI tools.