What Your Team Deploys, Proven Before It Exists
The Self-Service Cloud Platform, for Engineering Leaders
Your team says the agents are making them faster. Nobody can show you the cost of what was created before it was created, or who approved it.
You sign for the cloud bill and answer for the outage. You will not live in a console; you want to know what was deployed, what it costs, and that the rules held.
Planton turns your own cloud account into a self-service platform. AI designs the infrastructure, verifies the cost and permissions before anything is created, and publishes it as templates your whole team can deploy. Your services then ship onto that infrastructure straight from Git.
What Decides It
Cost Before Creation
Every deployment-changing job is born with a verified monthly cost, its coverage stated, and how much more or less it will cost than what runs today.
No New Team
Your platform engineer stays the user and writes the rules once; developers and their agents self-serve inside them. What reaches you is the proof.
A Record That Does Not Depend on Asking
Every change is one immutable stack job: configuration, cost, verdict, approver, outcome. Queryable whenever you want it, never reconstructed because you asked.
Verified Before It Exists
Cost, permissions, and controls become properties of what gets deployed, checked before it exists rather than found after.
Every deployment-changing job is born with a verified monthly cost: an exact figure with line items when the pricing rules can derive one, a range otherwise, and plainly “unpriced” when neither is possible. A zero never stands in for unknown.
The cost names the catalog release its prices came from and, when both can be priced exactly, how much more or less this will cost each month than what is deployed today.
Every covered component states which of a fixed list of 17 technical controls it enforces, with evidence for each claim.
Before deploy
verified cost
~$172/mo est. · 5 of 6 components priced, 1 usage-based
catalog release
2026.09.2 · prices verified against provider documents
against today
+$16/mo est. · the load balancer is new
permissions
least-privilege policy · 14 actions · ready to download
controls
encryption at rest · encryption in transit · no public exposure
uncovered
none of the 6 components is without a control profile
An illustration of the record the product shows. Figures marked est. are examples; a real record carries its own.
Your Rules Hold No Matter Who Asked
Your platform engineer writes the budget and the protected environments once. A deploy that would exceed the budget pauses, and a protected environment refuses self-approval, whoever asked.
An environment can carry a deployment budget. A deploy whose verified cost exceeds it pauses for a human decision, and who approved, when, and why is stamped on the record.
Protected environments pause before anything deploys, and nobody approves work they initiated, the assistant included.
Deploy paused
requested by
coding agent, on behalf of s.rao
environment
prod · protected · budget $250/mo
verified cost
~$312/mo est.
verdict
over budget by ~$62/mo · paused for a decision
who may approve
anyone with approve access on prod · never the requester
resolution
approved by a.patel · 2026-09-17 09:14 · “the replica is intentional”
An illustration of the record the product shows. Figures marked est. are examples; a real record carries its own.
Every Deployment Leaves a Record
The record is what you get to see: what was deployed, what it cost, who approved it and why. It is there whether or not anyone asks.
The full configuration is embedded into the job when it is created, and the job is immutable: the resource may change later; the job never does.
Every job is retained and queryable by resource, organization, environment, time, and outcome.
One event stream drives the console, the CLI, and the audit log, so every surface tells the same story.
Deploy record
deploy
production environment · prod · succeeded
requested by
coding agent, on behalf of s.rao
approved by
a.patel · 2026-09-17 09:14 · “the replica is intentional”
configuration
embedded at creation; never changes
verified cost
~$312/mo est. · catalog 2026.09.2
phases
init · refresh · preview · apply · capture
snapshot
7 resources · tagged planton.ai/environment=prod
An illustration of the record the product shows. Figures marked est. are examples; a real record carries its own. Every deploy leaves one of these.
The Rest of the Story
The chapters that matter next, each with the page that tells it in full.
Who It Is For
The platform engineer is the user and you are who signs. The proof is what travels between you.
Solutions →The Self-Service Cloud Platform
One platform in your own cloud account: AI designs, the platform verifies, the design becomes a template, and services ship from Git onto it.
Product →Runs Where You Decide
Hosted, self-hosted, or on a laptop; in every shape it is your account, your keys, your state, and your bill, with keyless connections and open-source modules.
Your Cloud, Your Keys →You Will Ask
Do I have to open a console to get any of this?
No. The proof is the record: the verified cost before creation, the budget verdict and who resolved it, the controls each component enforces, and the immutable job behind every change. Your platform engineer reads it and hands it to you; when you want to look yourself, the same record is one sign-in away and reads the same for you as for them.
Solutions →Is there a savings number I can put in a budget?
No, and we will not invent one. What you get is the verified monthly cost of each change before it is committed, with its coverage stated, judged against the budget you set. A dollar-savings figure would be a claim nobody could check, so you will not find one here.
Verified Before Deploy →What does this cost?
Teams pay per seat; below the self-serve ceiling a card is all it takes, and the demo beside this page is an offer, not a gate. The hosted free tier is free for up to 3 seats with no card, and Planton Desktop is free for individuals forever, commercial use included.
Pricing →Proof It Works
Teams have run production on Planton since 2023. Here is what the people running it say, in their own words.
700+
Component Kinds
8
Providers
17
Controls with Evidence
Since 2023
In Production
Catalog figures counted from the open-source repository on 2026-09-17 (github.com/plantonhq/planton); 2023 is the year the first customer went to production.
Rohit Reddy Gopu
CEO
“For one client project where the client mandated GCP but our DevOps engineer had no GCP experience, Planton allowed us to successfully deliver the entire infrastructure. We essentially got full DevOps capabilities for GCP without needing GCP expertise on our team.”
Read It for Another Role
Planton for Platform Engineers
Self-service your developers and their coding agents cannot break: rules written once, cost and permissions verified before anything exists, a record of every deploy.
How Planton Fits Your Work →Planton for Security and Governance Leaders
Rules that hold at the moment of creation, controls stated with evidence and never called compliant, and a record of every change; a complement to your posture tools.
How Planton Fits Your Work →