Boundary Community Edition: long-term scope and paid edition benefits

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Hello,

The compagny I work for is evaluating Boundary and I would like to better understand the long-term direction of the Community Edition.

Is there any general guidance on whether features currently available in Boundary Community Edition are expected to remain in Community over time, or could some of them eventually move to a paid tier?

Also, beyond the feature comparison table, what do the paid editions typically include in practice ? For example:

  • support,

  • security patching / hotfixes,

  • backports,

  • upgrade assistance,

  • SLA,

  • and any operational or customer success benefits.

Thanks in advance

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Hi. thanks for the question and for looking at Boundary.

To be transparent with you, Boundary’s development focus is fully on our Enterprise edition. The Community Edition is not the primary vehicle for new feature development. If your organization is evaluating Boundary for production use, I’d strongly recommend scoping against the Enterprise tier as that’s where our active investment is.

On your second question, Enterprise typically includes: dedicated support with SLAs, security patches and CVEs addressed with priority, hotfixes and backports for supported versions, upgrade assistance, and access to customer success resources. The specifics depend on your contract tier, so I’d recommend connecting with our sales team for the details that apply to your use case.

Best,

Dan Rohan
Boundary PM