Start free on the Community tier. License the Core foundation from $2,990 a year, add the BaaS modules you need individually, or take All Access — the whole platform, self-serve from $39,990 or on the Enterprise terms procurement asks for.
Start free on the Community tier — the Core foundation, the CLI, and the DynoStudio workspace, free under $250K. Every annual Core and All Access license ships with a free one-year Professional DynoStudio subscription. Then choose the Core foundation, BaaS modules, or All Access as you grow.
Start at $0 on the Community tier — the Core foundation (kernel, Web API, and messaging), the Kanject CLI, and the DynoStudio workspace, free for individuals, open source, education, and companies under $250K in trailing-twelve-month revenue or funding.
Start with a Core tier when your team wants clean .NET APIs over AWS infrastructure. Every annual Core license includes a year of Professional DynoStudio.
Pick BaaS modules à la carte when the problem is specific: identity, files, forms, notifications, wallet, analytics, or messaging. Each is licensed per environment, separately from Core.
Move to All Access when you want every Core library and every BaaS module. All Access Team is self-serve; Enterprise adds SLA, IP indemnification, and source code escrow.
Kanject runs inside your AWS account, so pricing stays honest about who charges for what.
Libraries, modules, source generators, docs output, release channel, and support.
DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, Cognito, EventBridge, bandwidth, and any other AWS services your deployment consumes.
There is no Kanject-hosted infrastructure between your app and AWS. No proxy, no markup, no migration risk if you ever leave.
The Kanject.Core foundation — the kernel, the Web API layer, and typed SQS messaging — free for individuals, open source, education, and companies under $250K in revenue or funding raised over the trailing twelve months.
Install the CLISelf-certified — tick a box, no sales call. Cross $250K in trailing-twelve-month revenue or funding and you have 90 days to move to a commercial Core license.
The starter license. Ship a pilot, an internal service, or your first production app on the full Core library set.
Buy nowFor teams running a real product. Room to grow to ten developers, with Professional DynoStudio included.
Buy nowFor growing engineering organisations. Room for twenty-five developers, with next-business-day email support, an onboarding session and priority bug triage.
Buy nowAWS already ships the SDK, Lambda Annotations, Powertools for .NET and the Aspire integrations — free, and we use them too. A Core license pays for the layer above them: the typed repositories, hosts, consumers and runners your team would otherwise hand-write, maintained and supported for the life of the subscription.
| The job | AWS gives you | You still write | Core gives you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data access | The DynamoDB SDK and its object persistence model. | Key templates, a repository per entity, pagination, table and namespace mapping — and all of it again when ScyllaDB or Keyspaces arrives. | [Repository] + [KeyTemplate] generate the finders at build time. One shape across DynamoDB, ScyllaDB and Amazon Keyspaces. |
| Lambda host | Lambda Annotations for handlers; Powertools for logging, tracing and idempotency. | The DI container, the configuration source, and warm-start reuse across invocations. | [CloudFunctionHost] — a source-generated host with DI, config and cold-start reuse wired for you. |
| Deployment | The Lambda deploy tool, CDK and the Aspire integrations. | Environment configuration, promotion through dev, stage and prod, rollback, VPC, domains and CI. | The Kanject CLI — one manifest that scaffolds, deploys, promotes and rolls back. Free on the Community tier. |
Application frameworks solve a different layer — UI, multi-tenancy, application modules. Teams that adopt one still hand-write the AWS side. Core is that AWS side, and it composes with whatever sits above it.
The full table, and the code volume behind itBaaS modules are sold separately at every Core tier; the two All Access tiers bundle every module. Year one is the license — renewals buy updates and support at the lower published rate. The Community tier — the Core foundation, the CLI and the DynoStudio workspace — is free under $250K, and every annual Core and All Access license ships with a free one-year Professional DynoStudio subscription (BaaS modules are licensed separately and don't include it).
| Community $0 · under $250K | Core Launch $2,990 / yr | Core Starter $9,990 / yr | Core Team $24,990 / yr | All Access Team $39,990 / yr | All Access Enterprise From $75,000 / yr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shape | ||||||
| Developer seats | Any | 3 | 10 | 25 | 25 | Unlimited |
| Environments Core licenses count developers, not deploys. BaaS modules bought individually are licensed per environment | Any | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| License | ||||||
| Perpetual fallback license Every version from your term stays licensed to use after it ends — downloadable for 6 months after expiry, or mirror it to your own artifact repository | — | |||||
| Renewal price Year one is the license; renewals buy updates and support at this rate, and it never rises while you stay continuously subscribed | — | $1,990 / yr | $6,990 / yr | $16,990 / yr | $27,990 / yr | Per agreement |
| Libraries | ||||||
| All 18 Core libraries | Foundation only | |||||
| BaaS modules | — | Purchased individually | Purchased individually | Purchased individually | All included | All included |
| Tooling | ||||||
| Kanject CLI Free on the Community tier (under $250K) | ||||||
| DynoStudio workspace Browse, query, ⌘K — free on the Community tier; a one-year Professional subscription ships with every annual Core and All Access license | ||||||
| DynoStudio modelling Model from scratch, inspect live tables, or import annotated code — a one-year Professional subscription ships with every annual Core and All Access license | Starter | |||||
| Support | ||||||
| Software updates New versions and updates while subscribed | ||||||
| Support level | Community | Email · 3-day target | Email · 3-day target | Email · next business day | Email · next business day | SLA-backed, named contact |
| Onboarding session | — | — | — | 1 × 90-min | 1 × 90-min | Yes |
| Enterprise | ||||||
| IP indemnification | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Source code escrow | — | — | — | — | — | |
| AOT-cert pipeline support | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Custom modules | — | — | — | — | — | Scoped |
| Procurement (custom terms, security review) | — | — | — | — | — | |
Every Kanject library applies the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to the service it wraps. The result: serverless-by-default architectures, scale-to-zero idle bills, and battle-tested patterns that don't quietly burn money — the libraries pay for themselves in what you stop paying AWS.
Every wrapper enforces the AWS Well-Architected pattern for the service it touches. You can't use Kanject and accidentally ship a hot-partition DynamoDB table, an S3 bucket without lifecycle rules, or an SQS consumer that DLQ-storms on a single bad message.
DynamoDB on-demand, Lambda compute, S3 + CloudFront delivery. No EC2 fleets to right-size, no RDS clusters to babysit, no idle dev environments quietly billing $1,200/month to do nothing on weekends. Scale-to-zero is the default, not an opt-in.
Single-table DynamoDB design, partial-batch acknowledgement on SQS, parallel workloads with retry budgets, distributed locks, golden-path source generators. The patterns that take a senior engineer two years to learn — already encoded in the libraries on day one.
Teams shipping on Kanject typically see materially lower AWS spend versus equivalent always-on architectures, plus weeks of engineering time saved per quarter on infrastructure tuning. For most teams the Kanject license is recovered inside the first quarter — and stays cheaper every quarter after.
Kanject wraps the same AWS services that run in production at the world's largest engineering teams. Your pricing pays for the clean .NET API, the source generators, the auto-generated docs, and the support — not the infrastructure underneath, which already exists, runs in your account, and is paid directly to AWS.
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