True cost · Developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling
Preset true cost: the 36-month total
Preset costs $7,200 over 36 months on Professional at 10 users, billed annually, before 7 cost lines that sit outside the plan price.
What Preset costs over 36 months
Every figure below is Preset's own published rate, annualised and multiplied out over 36 months at 10 users. Where Preset publishes no rate, the row says so instead of guessing.
Billing Preset monthly instead of annually costs $250 a month rather than $200, a difference of $1,800 across the 36 months. That is the single largest lever on this page that costs nothing to pull.
The same plan at four team sizes
Preset charges per user, so the 36-month figure scales linearly with headcount. These are Professional totals, on annual billing, with no fees added.
1 tier is sales-led (Enterprise), so it carries no figure here.
Renewal sensitivity: three scenarios, not a forecast
Nobody knows what Preset charges in 2029. The table below is arithmetic on a rate you choose, not a prediction: it compounds the year-one total forward at 0%, 5% and 10% so you can see how much of the 36-month figure is exposed to a renewal you have not negotiated yet.
Scenario arithmetic on Preset's own published year-one figure. Uplift rates are illustrative inputs, not observed or predicted rates.
What sits outside the Preset list price
7 lines, sorted by when in the contract lifecycle they land. Lines marked as derived are arithmetic on Preset's own tier table rather than vendor prose.
Each line, what triggers it, and how to avoid it
Paid add-on or module
Stated on the pricing page: Embedded dashboards add-on $500/month for 50 viewer licenses
What triggers it. Fires on adoption, not on signature. Preset prices the platform at $200 a month for 10 users and the pieces separately, which is why quoted comparisons between tools so rarely describe the same scope.
How to avoid it. Bundle the add-ons into the initial negotiation. They are discounted far more readily at first signature than when added in year two as a mid-term upsell.
Support and SLA
Stated on the pricing page: API access and dedicated Slack support are paid Enterprise add-ons
What triggers it. Support is a separate product here. The Professional plan buys the software at $200 a month for 10 users; response times, named contacts and any uptime commitment are priced apart from it.
How to avoid it. If support is quoted as a percentage of licence, negotiate a cap in absolute money. A percentage compounds with every seat you add over three years.
Contract and commitment terms
Derived from the published tiers: Preset Professional is $250 a month billed monthly against $200 on annual commitment, a $1,800 difference over 36 months at 10 users.
What triggers it. Triggered at signature. The $200 a month for 10 users rate is conditional on the commitment. Take the flexible route and the headline price is not the price you get.
How to avoid it. Price both routes before choosing. Committing three years to Preset for a discount is only rational if your managed apache superset requirement is genuinely stable that long.
Unpublished pricing
Derived from the published tiers: 1 of 4 Preset tiers publish no price (Enterprise). No total on this page includes them.
What triggers it. Triggered by nothing you do. This is simply a number Preset does not publish. Every unpublished component is a hole in the $7,200 figure, which is built only from rates the vendor states.
How to avoid it. Treat the unpublished element as a risk line in the business case with an explicit assumed value. A named assumption can be challenged; a gap cannot.
Trial and free-tier conversion
Derived from the published tiers: Preset publishes a free tier. Every 36-month figure above starts from the month you leave it, not from signup.
What triggers it. Fires when free stops being free. Worth mapping precisely, because free-tier limits are where managed apache superset tools do most of their upgrade engineering.
How to avoid it. Use the trial to test the limits you will actually hit, not the features that demo well. Where the free tier stops tells you what your real Preset tier is.
Feature gated to a higher tier
Derived from the published tiers: Moving from Professional to Professional + Embedded costs a further $11,520 over 36 months at 10 users, which is 2.6x the entry total.
What triggers it. Triggered by needing one feature, not by growing. This is the mechanism that moves teams off Professional: a single requirement that only exists further up the ladder, at a rate that applies to every unit you buy.
How to avoid it. List every gated capability you will plausibly need in three years, then price Preset at that tier from the start. Comparing entry tiers you will not stay on is how a $7,200 plan becomes a much larger invoice.
Seat expansion
Derived from the published tiers: Five more users on Professional add $3,600 across 36 months, on top of the $7,200 above.
What triggers it. Growth is the trigger. Because Preset bills on a per-user with embedded add-on, adding people mid-term adds cost on the original rate card, not on whatever you negotiated once.
How to avoid it. Audit entitlements quarterly. On a three-year term, seats assigned to people who left are the most reliably wasted money in the whole managed apache superset budget.
How that compares across developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling
The median developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling tool we track charges $20 a month at its cheapest paid tier. Re-expressed on the same basis as the figure above, 10 users for 36 months, that median works out at $7,200.
Preset lands $0 below that figure, 0.0%, measured across 61 tracked tools. A gap either way is a question, not a verdict: cheaper often means fewer included seats or a thinner support tier, and the fee lines below are where that difference usually reappears.
What changes at enterprise scale
Everything above prices the self-serve ladder. Enterprise sits off that ladder, which means the $7,200 figure is a floor for a large deployment rather than an estimate of one.
Enterprise adds Managed Private Cloud, SSH tunnels, SSO/SCIM, audit logs, SLAs, MCP Server and up to 90% volume discounts on embedded.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Preset cost over three years?
$7,200 on Professional at 10 users, billed annually, which is $200 a month held flat for 36 months. That figure covers the subscription only.
Does paying Preset annually save money?
Yes. Monthly billing costs $250 a month against $200 on annual commitment, a difference of $1,800 over 36 months at 10 users.
What does Preset charge for outside the plan price?
7 lines: paid add-on or module, support and sla, contract and commitment terms, unpublished pricing and 3 more. Each one is broken down above with what triggers it and how to avoid it.
Could Preset cost more at renewal?
Possibly, and nothing on this page predicts it. If the rate held flat the three-year total would be $7,200; at a hypothetical 10% a year it would be $7,944. Cap the uplift in the contract and the question stops mattering.
What does Preset cost for a team of 25?
$18,000 over 36 months on Professional, billed annually. Preset charges per user, so that scales directly with headcount.
Price Preset on your own numbers
This page holds the term axis. The pricing breakdown holds the seat axis: every tier, the per-seat calculator, and the same fee list against the monthly figure.
Sources and method
- List rates and fee disclosures: Preset official pricing page, verified 17 May 2026.
- 36-month totals: the published annual-equivalent rate multiplied by 36, at 10 users. No inflation, no discount, no fee estimates included.
- Renewal rows: scenario arithmetic on rates stated in the table. They are inputs, not observations.
- Category median: the cheapest paid monthly tier of every tool we track in the same category, re-expressed over 36 months.