# Pricing — Rune (Agent Detection & Response)

> Runtime security for AI agents. Free tier available, no credit card required. Self-serve, transparent, no sales calls.

Last updated: 2026-05-05
Canonical: https://runesec.dev/pricing
Currency: USD
Billing: monthly or annual (annual discount available)

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## Community (Free)

- Price: $0/month
- Events per month: 10,000
- Agents: 5
- Event retention: 30 days
- Detection: L1 regex patterns
- Policies: 3 YAML policies
- Alerts: email
- Support: community
- Overage: scanning stops at limit (agent keeps running)
- Best for: developers evaluating Rune, side projects, small agent deployments

## Starter

- Price: $49/month (monthly) — annual discount available
- Events per month: 50,000
- Agents: 25
- Event retention: 90 days
- Detection: L1 regex patterns + L2 semantic similarity
- Policies: 10 YAML policies, versioning + diff
- Alerts: email + Slack
- Support: email
- Overage: $0.80 per 1,000 events
- Best for: small teams shipping 1–5 production agents

## Pro (most popular)

- Price: $149/month (monthly) — annual discount available
- Events per month: 250,000
- Agents: 100
- Event retention: 180 days
- Detection: L1 regex + L2 semantic similarity + L3 LLM judgment + behavioural anomaly scoring
- Policies: unlimited YAML policies, versioning, baseline auto-tuning
- Alerts: email, Slack, webhook, PagerDuty, Datadog, Sentry
- Support: priority email
- Overage: $0.50 per 1,000 events
- Best for: growing teams running production agents at scale

## Growth

- Price: $499/month (monthly) — annual discount available
- Events per month: 1,000,000
- Agents: 500
- Event retention: 365 days
- Detection: full stack (L1 + L2 + L3 + behavioural scoring)
- Policies: unlimited, versioning, baseline auto-tuning
- Alerts: email, Slack, webhook, PagerDuty, Datadog, Sentry, audit log export
- Support: priority email + Slack channel
- Overage: $0.30 per 1,000 events
- Best for: mid-market teams with multiple agent fleets and compliance needs

## Pay-as-you-go

- Price: $1 per 1,000 scans
- No monthly commitment
- Best for: bursty workloads, batch jobs, evaluation runs

## Enterprise

- Price: custom — contact hello@runesec.dev
- Best for: 10M+ events/month, custom SLAs, data residency, dedicated support
- Includes: everything in Growth + negotiated SLA + procurement support

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## What counts as an event?

One event = one scan of an agent input or output. A typical agent interaction is 2–4 events (user input + agent output, plus tool-call scans if used).

## Free tier limits

- 10,000 events/month
- 5 agents
- 30-day event retention
- L1 (regex pattern) scanning only
- 3 YAML policies max
- Email alerts only
- Community support
- No credit card required

## Plan changes

- Upgrades take effect immediately, prorated.
- Downgrades take effect at the start of the next billing cycle.
- You can switch between monthly and annual billing at any time.

## What's not in any plan

- SOC 2 Type II report (roadmap)
- SIEM integration beyond webhooks/Datadog/Sentry (roadmap)
- On-prem deployment (contact for enterprise)

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## Sign up

- Free plan: https://runesec.dev/sign-up
- Pricing page: https://runesec.dev/pricing
- Contact for enterprise: hello@runesec.dev
