Citadel01 / CHOOSE YOUR WORKFLOW
One foundation. Two ways to operate.
Start hands-on. Add automation and finer access control when you need them.
Community
The complete coreNo paid license required.
Everything you need for hands-on infrastructure operations.
- Docker, Compose and Swarm management
- Manual builds, backups, recovery and automation
- Users, teams, MFA and OIDC
- No license-based limits on resource counts
No paid key needed. Free for personal self-hosting and internal business production use.
Team
Advanced operationsOnline purchasing is currently unavailable.
Custom permissions, scheduled operations and advanced alerts for your team.
- Custom access control and service accounts
- Scheduled and webhook-driven operations
- Advanced alerts and operational guardrails
- Execution through external build pools
Capabilities are verified offline with an instance-bound license.
Cloud
Coming soonPricing announced at launch.
Bring your servers. Manage them through a hosted Citadel control plane.
- Bring your own servers
- Citadel hosts the control plane
- Your workloads stay on your infrastructure
Citadel Cloud is a planned hosted offering; pricing and launch details will be announced separately.
02 / COMPARE CAPABILITIES
Compare the way you operate.
Community covers hands-on operations. Team adds permissions, schedules and unattended execution.
| Workflow | Community | Team adds |
|---|---|---|
| Docker, Compose and Swarm | Included, across local and remote environments | Same core management |
| Users, teams, MFA and OIDC | Included with built-in roles | Same authentication, plus custom access control |
| Resource counts | No license-based limits | No license-based limits |
| Builds | Manual builds on managed platforms | Plus scheduled and webhook-triggered builds and external build pools |
| Backups and recovery | Manual backup and restore | Plus schedules and webhook-triggered backups |
| Automation and Git | Manual actions, source synchronization and update detection | Plus unattended builds, deployments and actions |
| Alerts | Built-in rules, in-app alerts and external channels | Plus custom rules and advanced conditions |
| Drift and updates | Manual checks, reconciliation and rollback | Plus continuous monitoring and opt-in safeguards |
| Service accounts and scoped access | Retained configuration stays visible for cleanup after downgrade | Custom roles, resource scopes, API tokens and run-as execution |
License terms
Citadel is source-available under Elastic License 2.0, not OSI-approved open source. A company does not need Team merely because it is a company. Team enables signed product capabilities; it does not waive ELv2 or grant hosted-service rights.
Existing configuration and recovery access are preserved when a paid license expires. The Community commitment records the protected free baseline. Support and subscription terms belong to the applicable commercial agreement. Enterprise is not currently generally available.
For the full boundaries, see the edition and licensing guide and commercial licensing explanation.