What is Canonical MAAS?
An open source system that automates deployment and administration of physical servers, offering programmatic control through APIs and integration with infrastructure-as-code tools.
Canonical MAAS pricing
We don't have Canonical MAAS's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (7)
Independently observed- Terraform
- Juju
- Ansible
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- SAML
- Ubuntu Pro
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Compare Canonical MAAS
Side by side against other bare metal hosting, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Canonical MAAS, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development activity | 62 | 0.09 | 5.8 | ✓ |
| Price level | 100 | 0.05 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 26 | 0.09 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Stars | 41 | 0.03 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 92 | mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 148 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 7 | mediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | HTML | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |