# Batteries included We think core cloud features are essential, not optional. ## Datum is currently in a closed beta. Our pricing is designed to create millions of connections between modern providers, their partners, and their customers. In other words, we're focused on making connections, not pushing bits. Here's what you can expect: - A generous hobby tier for personal use and experimentation - A robust self-service platform for production use cases - A curated full-service experience for a more intimate experience If you're interested in our work and want to learn more or participate in our closed beta, we'd love to chat. ## Core Essentials - **Authoritative DNS** - A secure and resilient DNS service, served across 17 locations. - **Domains** - Organize and programmatically manage domain resources across providers. - **Secrets** - Organize and protect sensitive data in a central location. - **Metrics Export** - Export full OTel metrics to Grafana Cloud along with prebuilt dashboards. - **Fine Grained Permissions** - Manage groups and fine-grained IAM role assignments. - **SSO** - Enterprise-grade authentication access. - **Service accounts** - Assign identity credentials to agents or applications and let the machines do the rest. - **Audit & Activity Logs** - Production grade infrastructure with built in features for activity / audit logging. - **datumctl** - Authenticate and manage resources using a K8s-style syntax (get, apply, delete). - **Datum MCP** - An official, self-hosted MCP server that is tightly integrated with Cursor. - **Developer Tools** - macOS, Windows, and Linux apps for exposing localhost to the internet. - **+ more** - We'll continue to add more and more features as we grow. ## Frequently asked questions ### How mature is Datum Cloud? Datum is an early stage company, and our product is evolving steadily to include more core features (e.g. additional Connectors, Galactic VPC, Compute, etc) as well as platform features that support enterprise readiness and operational scale. ### Why is Datum currently free? Offering a "forever free" service tier is super important to us. As we mature our product, we plan to enable all possible features in the free tier and provide reasonable usage limits. Through this coming year we will introduce a paid plan with an SLA, as well as other deployment models. ### What are Datum's planned deployment models? Great question! We currently offer a public cloud model (multi-tenant at the control plane and network level) as well as open source. This year, pending demand from design partners, we plan to introduce a managed cloud offering (single tenant control plane) and a BYOC model. ### How does Datum Cloud compare? We've positioned our product as an open, AI native network cloud. Practically speaking, we offer features that mirror aspects of the large public clouds and CDN's: an edge proxy, a reverse tunnel, DNS, global reach, a high performance backbone, etc. Aside from being built fresh in 2025, what sets us apart is our target customer (we're solely focused on modern 'alt cloud' providers) and our open, neutral strategy. ### What are the 'internet superpowers' Datum talks about? The world's biggest companies and clouds take advantage of traditional internet networking capabilities like peering, interconnection, and deterministic routing. By building out a global physical network and backbone, they are able to understand and control the flow of their traffic, improve performance, lower costs, comply with regulation, and participate with an ecosystem of networks. Our mission is to make these superpowers available to every agent, developer and builder. ### What is Datum's relationship with Kubernetes? Datum's control plane is built on Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). You can read some of the background in [Scot's blog here](https://www.datum.net/blog/control-plane-for-modern-service-providers/). While you don't have to use k8s to use Datum Cloud, it will feel quite natural if you do. An important benefit for users is the insane familiarity that LLMs have with the Kubernetes codebase. It sure does help Claude have a more seamless and accurate experience! ### How is Datum's infrastructure structured? Datum deploys infrastructure in the top internet aggregation points globally. These points of presence (PoPs) are packaged into Regions and Availability Zones (AZs). Each Region represents a specific geographic and network boundary, while each AZ provides independent capacity within that Region. Similar to most public clouds, Datum uses a country-anchored naming format with the following elements: | Field | Description | | :---- | :---- | | Geography | Two-letter ISO country code (example: US, DE, IN) | | Cardinal Direction | Directional indicator within the country: north, south, east, west, or central. | | Number | Region index within that location. | | Count | Availability Zone identifier: a, b, c, etc. | --- Source: