Solace Pricing: Editions, Cloud Packages and Support Tiers Explained

Solace pricing is not published as a price list. As of October 2026 Solace’s pricing page shows no dollar figures for the enterprise broker, the Solace Cloud services or the platform packages; you buy through Solace, a reseller, or the AWS, Google Cloud and Azure marketplaces. What Solace does publish is the structure of a quote: free and paid broker editions, Solace Cloud service classes, three packages (Foundation, Accelerate and Scale), two licensing models and three support tiers. This page lays that structure out, so you can ask for a quote that matches your requirements and compare the answer.

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Solace pricing: what is published and what is not

Item	Published?	Where
Software broker editions and their limits	Yes	Edition comparison
Solace Cloud service classes (connections, queues, throughput, storage)	Yes	Pricing page
Package contents (Foundation, Accelerate, Scale)	Yes	Pricing page
Support tiers and response times	Yes	Pricing page
Dollar prices for any of the above	No	Quote only
Platform Capacity Units per service class or package	No	Ask the account team
Agent Mesh Enterprise and cloud pricing	No	Quote only

Solace Event Broker editions

The self-managed software broker comes in two editions, plus an evaluation route between them. Figures are from Solace’s edition comparison as of October 2026.

	Standard Edition	Enterprise Edition
Price	Free	Commercial, not published
Production deployable (docs)	No	Yes
Client connections	1,000	200,000
Throughput	10,000 msg/s ingress limit	Unthrottled
Message VPNs	1	5
Maximum spool	800 GB	6 TB
High availability	Yes	Yes
Disaster recovery replication	No	Yes

The evaluation route. Install the Standard Edition, then apply a free 90-day Enterprise evaluation key. Solace’s docs warn that the configuration is lost at expiry unless you upgrade, so script the configuration from the start.

The “production” question has two answers on record. Solace launched the free edition in 2018 as “production-ready”. The current documentation says it is not production deployable, and the product page says it has no production support. We would treat the current documentation as the answer and read the licence text before relying on Standard anywhere that matters. Standard vs Enterprise covers the limits in more depth. The hardware appliances (Solace 3560 and 3530) are quoted separately.

Solace Cloud service classes

Solace Cloud sells managed brokers in fixed sizes. The published enterprise classes, as of October 2026:

Class	Connections	Queues	Throughput	Default storage
ENT-250	250	250	450 Mbps	50 GB
ENT-1K	1,000	1,000	450 Mbps	200 GB
ENT-5K	5,000	5,000	750 Mbps	400 GB
ENT-10K	10,000	10,000	750 Mbps	600 GB
ENT-50K	50,000	50,000	1,000 Mbps	800 GB
ENT-100K	100,000	100,000	1,000 Mbps	1,000 GB

Storage is configurable up to 6 TB. In August 2026 Solace added a 200,000-connection class, enabled through the account team. Cloud brokers are highly available by default, with a standalone option. A 30-day free trial is offered; a permanent free cloud tier is not currently advertised.

Where the infrastructure bill lands depends on the deployment model. In Solace-run public and dedicated deployments the infrastructure cost is included in the service price. In customer-controlled deployments, where the brokers run on your own Kubernetes, the infrastructure is yours to pay for (comparison). Solace Cloud explains the three models.

Solace pricing packages: Foundation, Accelerate and Scale

The packages decide which platform services come with the brokers. As shown on the pricing page in October 2026:

Capability	Foundation	Accelerate	Scale
Event Portal Designer and Catalog	Yes	Yes	Yes
Event Broker Manager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mesh Manager Link Builder	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dedicated or customer private clusters	Yes	Yes	Yes
Event Portal KPI Dashboard, Self-Service Access, and Import, Discovery and Audit	No	Yes	Yes
Event Portal Application Promotion and Access, and API Management	No	No	Yes
Solace Insights, with third-party export	No	No	Yes
Distributed Tracing	No	No	Yes
Schema Registry (self-managed)	No	No	Yes

Read this table as a governance and observability decision. Foundation is design and cataloguing. Accelerate adds discovery of what is already running, including Kafka through the Event Management Agent. Scale adds the operational layer: Insights, tracing and the Schema Registry. A team that expects tracing from day one is buying Scale.

Licensing models and support tiers

Two licensing models. A fixed subscription suits stable, predictable usage. Consumption pricing is an annual drawdown from a fixed bucket on a pay-as-you-go basis. Both are counted in Platform Capacity Units, formerly PubSub+ Capacity Units.

Support tier	Coverage	Response	Adds
Essential	24×7	30 minutes for product defects
Advanced	24×7	15 minutes	A named expert and onboarding
Advanced+	24×7	15 minutes	A Center of Enablement and a priority response team

The page does not say which severity levels these response times cover. Ask.

Agent Mesh is priced separately. Solace offers it free to individuals and to companies under US$25 million in annual revenue; enterprise pricing is not public. Agent Mesh editions and licensing covers the detail.

What a Solace quote is built from

Cost drivers beyond the licence

Environments multiply everything. A production broker usually brings a disaster recovery site, a test broker and developer brokers with it. Ask whether non-production capacity is priced differently, and whether DR replication counts as a second full broker.

Customer-controlled means you run the infrastructure. That choice keeps data on your network, which some plants require, but the compute, storage and Kubernetes skills are yours.

Cross-region traffic is a cloud bill, not a Solace bill. An event mesh that moves plant data to a cloud region generates egress charges from the cloud provider. Filtering at the plant broker, so only subscribed topics cross the WAN, is the lever.

An illustrative scenario. A manufacturer pilots on the free Standard Edition at one plant, then plans eight plants on Enterprise, a cloud service at head office, Event Portal and tracing. The pilot cost nothing; the rollout includes eight software brokers (perhaps sixteen with DR), a cloud service class, the Scale package for tracing, and a support tier. None of that is visible until the quote arrives, which is why the quote should be requested against a written requirement.

A budgeting checklist

• List every broker by site and environment, with expected connections, message rates and storage.
• Decide the deployment model per site: public, dedicated, customer-controlled or self-managed software.
• Decide which package you need, based on whether you want discovery, tracing and the Schema Registry.
• Ask for the Platform Capacity Units each item consumes, not only the total.
• Ask how DR, test and development brokers are priced.
• Confirm the support tier and which severities the response times apply to.
• Price the infrastructure, egress and staff that sit outside the quote.
• Get the renewal terms and any growth commitments in writing.

An independent view on the requirement before it goes to the vendor is a typical owner’s engineer task.

Where it gets hard

• No public prices means no easy comparison. Comparing Solace with any alternative depends on quotes built from the same written requirement, environment by environment.
• Packages bundle features you may not want yet. Tracing arrives only with Scale.
• The Standard Edition is a trap for pilots that become production. Its limits and licence status make it a test tool.
• Capacity unit conversion is opaque. Without the mapping, you cannot check a consumption bill against your own usage.

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