# Hosting options

We provide free access to our Community Edition. This offers an opportunity to explore our technology and get started quickly. If you haven't already, you can [sign-up here](https://app.rainbird.ai/signup) and follow our [Quickstart guide](/rainbird/getting-started/quickstart-guide.md) to learn how to build a knowledge map.

The Enterprise Edition enhances your experience with  higher usage limits and premium features to help you build and scale automated decisions.

The table below shows the key differences between Community and Enterprise. [Alternative hosting options are also available](#alternative-hosting-options). 

<table><thead><tr><th width="249"></th><th>Community</th><th>Enterprise</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Price</strong></td><td>Free</td><td>Contact us for custom pricing</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Usage limits</strong></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>           Knowledge Maps</td><td>Unlimited *</td><td>Unlimited</td></tr><tr><td>           Test Queries</td><td>Unlimited *</td><td>Unlimited</td></tr><tr><td>           Production Queries</td><td>Non-commercial only *</td><td>Custom</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Account creation</strong></td><td>Self-service sign-up</td><td>Administered by Rainbird</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Private workspace</strong></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Shared workspaces</strong></td><td>-</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Company administration</strong></td><td>-</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Two-factor authentication</strong></td><td>-</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Support</strong></td><td>-</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Platform Service Level Agreements (SLAs)</strong></td><td>-</td><td><a href="https://rainbird.ai/sla/">Yes</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Infrastructure</strong></td><td>Standard</td><td>High Availability</td></tr><tr><td><strong>User retains ownership of content and data</strong></td><td>Yes<br><br>Refer to <a href="https://rainbird.ai/terms-and-conditions/">Community T&#x26;Cs </a></td><td>Yes<br><br>Refer to your Enterprise license agreement</td></tr></tbody></table>

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**How to upgrade from Community to Enterprise?**

If you wish to upgrade to the Enterprise Edition, contact us on <support@rainbird.ai>.

We will be in touch to discuss pricing and migration to Enterprise.

## Alternative hosting options

When there is a requirement for more control over infrastructure, security and data residency, we provide a range of alternative hosting options:

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Rainbird-managed private environment</strong></td><td>We can deploy a private environment, deployed into an AWS region of your choice to support data residency requirements, but managed and updated by Rainbird for minimal effort. Additionally this provides vanity URLs and IP whitelisting.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Self-hosting</strong></td><td>You can host Rainbird in your own cloud infrastructure to be owned and managed by you. This currently supports <strong>AWS</strong> only, but we have other cloud providers on our roadmap, so please contact us if you need to use someone else.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>On-premise</strong></td><td>If you do not use a cloud provider, it is still possible to deploy Rainbird onto an on-premise Kubernetes cluster.</td></tr></tbody></table>


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