Hydra Pricing and Licensing
The Pricing Model Built for How Cloud Desktops Run
Pricing aligns to your peak real-time usage, not total monthly active users, ensuring idle or part-time users don’t drive unnecessary cost. No per-tenant fees. No onboarding fees. No mandatory minimums.
Hydra Community Edition
Foundational Management for Smaller AVD Environments
- Limited tenants and host pools
- Core autoscaling & image management
- Community support
Hydra for AVD
Enterprise-Grade AVD Management & Cost Optimization
- Autoscale, optimize power & disk utilization
- Image lifecycle management with one-click rollback
- Real-time session visibility via the Hydra Agent
- Multi-tenant management
- Dedicated Email Support
- Knowledge Base
- Support Forum
Hydra for Windows 365
Enterprise-Grade Cloud PC Management
- Accelerate Cloud PC provisioning from hours to minutes
- Centralized lifecycle management
- Custom image control
- Provisioning policy management
- Real-time session and performance visibility via the Hydra Agent
- Dedicated Email Support
- Knowledge Base
- Support Forum
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No Monthly Minimums. No Surprise Renewals.
- No minimum commitments
- Unlimited tenants included by default
- No enterprise pricing premiums
- No onboarding fees
- No professional services required to go live
You scale up? Your pricing scales with concurrency. You scale down? Your costs drop automatically. Hydra pricing flexes with reality.
Built-In Burst Protection
(Included in Annual Plans)
Temporary spike due to seasonal hiring, shift work, or special projects shouldn’t permanently increase your licensing.
While other pricing models lock your spike into your next billing cycle, Hydra includes 1 full month of burst protection on annual plans at no additional cost.
Enterprise-Ready by Design
Hydra is built for production-scale Windows in the Cloud environments where security, governance, and operational control matter.
✔️ ISO 27001 certified company
✔️ Multi-tenant by default, no added cost
✔️ Enterprise-grade RBAC built in
✔️ Backed by Login VSI’s 15+ year enterprise track record
Hydra Doesn’t Just Cost Less.
It Reduces Total Cost of Ownership.
Based on aggregated customer deployments (2024–2026), organizations report:
- Up to 70% reduction in Azure infrastructure spend via autoscaling, disk switching, and power management
- 40–60% reduction in management overhead compared to other third-party platforms
- 75% increase in admin productivity
- 70% faster MTTR with real-time diagnostics
What Monthly Spend Looks Like With Hydra
What Customers Are Saying:
Hydra for MSPs
Hydra’s concurrency-based pricing is built to protect and improve MSP margins as you scale service delivery across tenants and customers.
Hydra improves MSP gross margins immediately. As you grow tenants, users, and customer environments, pricing remains aligned to peak active concurrency, so margins improve as you scale.
Complete Feature Comparison
| Features | CommunityFree forever | Hydra for AVDPer CCU / month | Hydra for W365Per CCU / month | Annual Plan Best ValueVolume pricing available |
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| Pricing & Licensing | ||||
| Peak concurrent licensing model | ||||
| Unlimited tenants | 1 tenant | |||
| Volume pricing | ||||
| Burst protection | ||||
| Master SLA & security review | ||||
| Automation & Imaging | ||||
| Scheduled image updates | limited | |||
| Golden image preservation | limited | |||
| Azure image gallery storage | limited | |||
| Automated sysprep cleanup | limited | |||
| Script engine (patching, resizing) | limited | |||
| Session & User Management | ||||
| Shadow sessions for support | ||||
| Real-time session/process control | ||||
| Multi-session actions across tenants | ||||
| User self-service portal | ||||
| Monitoring & Insights | ||||
| Real-time dashboards | basic | |||
| Logon duration metrics | basic | |||
| Host/session load tracking | basic | |||
| Auto-Scaling & Cost Control (AVD only) | ||||
| Predictive autoscaling | limited pools | |||
| Session consolidation | limited | |||
| Drain-mode aware scaling | limited | |||
| Disk switching (Premium / HDD) | limited | |||
| Windows 365 Management | ||||
| Cloud PC inventory & lifecycle | ||||
| Windows 365 provisioning policies | ||||
| Azure Network Connection management | ||||
| Custom image management (W365) | ||||
| Provisioning acceleration (<10 min ready) | ||||
| Role-Based Access & Multi-Tenant | ||||
| Scoped roles by tenant/pool | 1 tenant | |||
| Multi-tenant UI | ||||
| Reusable rollout configuration | ||||
| Azure Files & Storage (AVD only) | ||||
| Auto-shrink storage shares | ||||
| Release locked file handles | ||||
| Support Terms | ||||
| Knowledge base | ||||
| Support forum | ||||
| Dedicated email support | ||||
| Priority response access | ||||
| Phone & video support | ||||
| Dedicated Customer Success Manager | ||||