Why you don't buy Solidus Pod on its own

This page exists because a customer-facing surface should say that plainly rather than let a reader hunt for a pricing link that does not exist.

The check, with a control

There is no pricing anywhere in pod's interface. No price, no plan, no subscription.

The same search matches 67 files across two other Solidus surfaces, so the search works and the absence is real.

And one thing the interface does show that it should not lean on: the storage ring displays a nominal 10 GB. The code's own comment says the server enforces no per-pod quota. The number is there so the ring renders. It is cosmetic, and a customer should know that before treating it as a limit or an allowance.

Why it would not sell standalone anyway

Storage is a commodity and the pod is not the valuable part. What makes a pod worth having is what reads from it, and the bottleneck in this whole field is the application side, not the storage side.

A pod with no applications is a folder with extra steps. That is not a marketing problem to be solved with a price; it is the actual state of the technology, and it applies to everyone in the category, not only to us.

And you can already have the storage for nothing. Two commands run a real Solid pod on your own machine, on software that is not ours. We are not in a position to charge for something you can get by typing one line, and we would not respect a company that tried.

The generic pattern, stated without the specifics

Internally, pod is positioned as accompanying work on another product rather than being sold on its own.

That is as far as this page goes. Which organisations, which sectors, what the arrangement is worth, none of that is a customer's business to read on a product page, and publishing a prospect list would be worse than useless to the person this page is for.

The same source carries a proposed price range and it is refused here. Its own text marks it as not final, pricing belongs to a different surface, and a provisional number becomes a quoted figure the moment it is published.

What you would actually be buying if you could, and why we are not ready to sell it

Not the software: that is somebody else's, open source, and you can run it.

You would be buying operation: that it stays up, that it is backed up, that someone answers when it breaks, and that the data is somewhere you can account for.

We cannot honestly sell any of those yet:

One origin server, one jurisdiction, no regional option and no residency guarantee.
No account deletion, no bulk export, and no append or control grant in the interface.
Nothing about its operation has been tested by a real obligation.

A price on that list would be a promise we could not keep.

What we would rather you do