Conductor is a SaaS service that quickly and securely connects to all your Kubernetes clusters running Dapr and Daprized applications, delivering operational excellence, security & reliability, and insights & collaboration.

Conductor Free is a developer version for individual developers. It improves the local Dapr development experience for Dapr on Kubernetes, offering application visualization, Dapr resource discovery, best practices development guidance and troubleshooting, all at no cost.

Conductor Free users have access to support via Diagrid community forum to ask the community questions and additional resources with thedocumentation and Diagrid YouTube channels. You can also raise feature requests and give feedback on the Conductor public repo https://github.com/diagridio/conductor-feedback

Conductor Enterprise is for operations teams managing Dapr in production and non-production environments, whereas Conductor Free is a developer version for individual developers. 

Conductor Enterprise includes all Conductor Free features, plus additional capabilities for operating and automating Dapr in production environments. This includes enhanced security features, improved reliability for Dapr control plan, certificate management, performance and cost tuning, custom notifications on events, Grafana dashboards and integrations with other monitoring tools.

To see the differences, check out our pricing page, and quotas and limits page.

While Conductor Free can be used in production, its feature set and metrics storage limits are tailored for individual development clusters. For larger scale applications, production environments that need to gather metrics usage over weeks and have production best practices guidance. Conductor Enterprise is the recommended choice due to its advanced features and focus on operations teams.

Conductor Free is focused on individual developers, whereas a Conductor Enterprise is for teams and organizations. Currently you are not able to move from Free to Enterprise. If you're using Conductor Free and want to upgrade to Conductor Enterprise, please contact us to set up an account or try the free Conductor Enterprise Trial.

Conductor Enterprise adopts a capacity-based pricing model. It's calculated based on the number of clusters and the number of applications. In addition you can choose Dapr Enterprise support for 24/7 Dapr OSS support through a variety of support plans with different response times.

Conductor, trusted in production environments by numerous customers, collects metrics, metadata, and sidecar logs. For a detailed breakdown of the collected data, please refer to our documentation.