Self-serve overview

Self-serve refers to the ways you can sign up for, use, and pay for Chainguard products on your own, without direct involvement from Chainguard employees.

Chainguard has two self-serve plans. Chainguard Starter is free, and Chainguard Team is a paid plan that a Starter organization upgrades to and pays for by card. This section covers the following:

• Chainguard plans compares what Starter and Team include, with one table of their limits.
• Sign up for Chainguard Starter creates a free organization with chainctl.
• Upgrade to Chainguard Team moves a Starter organization to Team.
• Usage, limits, and billing covers checking usage, responding to a plan limit, and buying Checks and Workspaces compute.
• Chainguard Containers on Chainguard Starter covers choosing up to five container images and pulling them.
• Self-serve Helm charts lets you provision Chainguard Helm charts, along with the container images they depend on.