| Model | Description | Typical Customers | |-------|-------------|-------------------| | | Monthly or annual per-seat or per-resource fee. | Teams using Tanzu Mission Control or TAP SaaS. | | Subscription (Self-managed) | Annual term licensing based on CPU cores or VMs. | On-premises deployments with TKG or TAP. | | VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Bundle | Tanzu Standard included with VCF subscription. | Enterprises standardizing on full VMware stack. | | Tanzu Flex (Consumption) | Pay-as-you-go via cloud providers or VMware Cloud on AWS/Azure. | Variable workloads, dev/test environments. |
Designed for multi-cloud environments. It adds the ability to manage Kubernetes clusters across on-premises, AWS, and Azure. Pricing moves toward a per-core subscription model. vmware tanzu pricing
For accurate, current pricing, from a Broadcom-authorized partner — public numbers are obsolete within months. If your organization is small or cloud-native first, strongly evaluate open-source alternatives like K3s + Rancher or managed Kubernetes from hyperscalers before committing to Tanzu. | Model | Description | Typical Customers |
(or Tanzu Application Platform – TAP)
TMC is often priced or per vCPU of worker nodes. | On-premises deployments with TKG or TAP
This is the "runtime" layer—how you get Kubernetes up and running on vSphere, AWS, or Azure.