| Metric | Used For | Typical Cost Range | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | TKG on-premises | $1,250–$2,500/core/year | | Per Developer (Concurrent) | TAP (Dev Portal) | $450–$700/developer/month | | Per Metric Hour | Tanzu Observability | $0.15 per 1K metric hours |

Your most cost-effective path is to first audit your current VMware entitlements, then scope your real needs (Do you need a developer portal? Or just containers?), and finally negotiate a multi-year deal before Broadcom’s next price adjustment.

Historically, VMware sold perpetual licenses with annual support (SnS). Today, under Broadcom, is almost exclusively subscription-based , tied to either CPU cores or "vSphere+ workloads."