Predictable Pricing and Usage Plans

The free version of Lunar.dev provides essential functionality, including control over API traffic and a single API proxy with a control plane, alongside access to basic plugins and flows. In contrast, the paid versions offer significant enhancements tailored to meet the demands of more complex and high-volume environments:

• Scalable Proxy Support: Facilitates handling higher traffic volumes with the ability to scale the Lunar proxy on demand.
• Failover and Load Balancing: Offers robust mechanisms essential for maintaining uptime and performance in production environments.
• Premium Features: Access to premium plugins and advanced flows designed for intricate use-cases, extending beyond the capabilities of the free version.
• Enhanced collaboration: through a shared UI control plane, enabling teams to define and manage policies across multiple proxies efficiently.

These advantages make the paid versions ideal for businesses looking for comprehensive API management solutions to support their growth and operational complexity.

Initially, deploying a single proxy per environment serves as a good starting point. However, the necessity for multiple proxies may emerge under specific circumstances such as the need for horizontal scaling to accommodate peak traffic loads due to limitations on the number of concurrent API calls a single proxy can handle (detailed benchmarks can be found in our performance documentation), ensuring high availability and failover capabilities (automatically replacing a failed proxy with a new one), or managing traffic more efficiently by segregating it across different proxies based on tenant separation, geographical regions, and other criteria.

Lunar.dev's infrastructure, including the proxy and interceptors, is installed and managed directly within your own cloud infrastructure. This approach ensures that all data related to API calls are exclusively managed and stored locally, providing full control over your data with no external exposure. 

Conversely, Lunar.dev's UI Control Plane is a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering that provides centralized control over all Lunar.dev components. The data shown in the UI includes system telemetry, system usage, and aggregated metrics on API volumes. Importantly, this data sharing aspect of the SaaS offering can be disabled by the customer, offering flexibility in how much information is transmitted and reflected in the UI.

Lunar.dev is designed for highly regulated environments and is SOC2 compliant. Compliance control, however, is managed by the customer, as the Lunar proxy is deployed within their own infrastructure.

For further questions about pricing or any other inquiries, please reach out to us via our Contact Us page or info@lunar.dev.