Pricing
Start free with 2 agents. No credit card required.
Upgrade when your fleet outgrows the free tier — or stay on free forever. No contracts, no per-seat fees, no surprise charges. Cancel any time from your dashboard.
Pricing tiers
Free
2 Agents Free
- — 2 servers, free forever
- — No feature limits
- — CVE matching & patch jobs
- — Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky
- — Unlimited sub-users, no per-seat charge
Business
Best for growing teams
- — Unlimited agents at $1 each
- — No feature limits
- — CVE matching & patch jobs
- — Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky
- — Unlimited sub-users, no per-seat charge
- — Month-to-month, cancel any time
Self-Hosted
For behind the firewall
- — All Business features
- — Runs on your own VM or hardware
- — No data leaves your network
- — Air-gapped deployments supported
- — Same price as cloud
Works on the Linux distros you already run
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Vz Linux -
Alma Linux -
Arch Linux
Frequently asked questions
How much does SysWard cost? +
SysWard starts at $1/agent/month. A free tier with 2 agents is available.
What counts as an "agent"? +
One agent = one Linux host you want SysWard to monitor and patch. Physical or virtual machine, container host, cloud instance — if it has its own package manager you control, it's one agent. Containers themselves are not counted; SysWard manages the host.
What happens when I hit the agent limit on the free plan? +
The 3rd agent's registration is rejected with a clear "upgrade to add this host" message. Your existing 2 agents keep reporting and patching normally — we never silently downgrade or stop scanning a host you're already monitoring. Upgrade to Business and the new host registers immediately.
Is there a self-hosted option? +
Yes. The SysWard Appliance can be deployed on-premises behind your firewall at the same price. Same features as the cloud product. No data leaves your network. Air-gapped deployments supported. See the appliance page.
Are there any contracts? +
No. SysWard is month-to-month with no long-term contracts required. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel any time from your dashboard.
Do you support sub-users? Is there an extra charge? +
Yes — invite as many users to your organization as you need. There's no per-seat charge; pricing is per-agent only. Sub-users get their own 2FA, audit-logged actions, and a temporary-password invite flow.
How does SysWard handle security? +
2FA available on every user account. All traffic is SSL/TLS-encrypted. Passwords are bcrypt-hashed. The agent is open-source so you can audit what it sends. We never store credentials for hosts — the agent runs locally and reports out, no inbound SSH from us. See our security page for details.
Where is my data stored? +
Cloud: the SaaS product runs in U.S. data centers; agents only send package inventories and host metadata, never the contents of files or environment variables. Self-hosted: all data stays on the appliance VM in your environment — we have no visibility into it.
What payment methods do you accept? +
Credit cards via Stripe and PayPal. We don't process payments on our own servers, so your card details never touch us.
What is your refund policy? +
Contact [email protected] and we'll refund recent charges — no scripted runaround.