Build your IoT project with balena.

We provide a full technology stack to help you develop, deploy, and manage projects at any scale.
Balena Cloud
Your first 10 devices are always free and full-featured.
Balena is for fleet owners
* fleet owner (n.): the person responsible for building and managing groups of connected IoT (Internet of Things) devices.
Whether your fleet has one device or one million, we have the tools to help you develop, deploy, and manage any IoT project at any stage.
We’ve solved the hard problems so you can focus on your application, not your infrastructure.
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Flexible and configurable
Flexible and configurable
Use our entire platform, or pick and choose the components you need.
Built for containers
Built for containers
Benefit from the power of Linux containers, optimized for the edge.
Multifaceted
Multifaceted
No two IoT projects are the same. We support many devices, networks, and setups.
Secure by design
Secure by design
Keep your fleet healthy with regular, reliable, and verifiable updates.
Field tested
Field tested
We’ve honed our platform by working with thousands of fleet owners deploying devices to production.
Easy and agile
Easy and agile
Who said embedded computing has to be hard? We use modern developer workflows from the cloud and web.
Introducing
An easier way to find and publish edge and IoT projects
Case Studies
The future of IoT is being built on balena
See how our customers are growing their fleets and getting to market faster with balena.
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Infarm uses balena to make farm-to-table work
Infarm
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Operating and managing thousands of industrial drones and edge devices with balenaCloud
Skycatch
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How Bosch remotely manages and deploys to IoT devices at scale with balena
Bosch
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Managing connected hospitality devices with balenaCloud
Sonder
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Real-time environment monitoring with balenaCloud
30mhz
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Deploying to underwater drones with balenaCloud
Open ROV
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End-to-end solution for the retail market
Intale
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How Pact Coffee uses Raspberry Pis to ship upto 4k coffee packs a day
Pact Coffee
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Using balenaCloud to bring customised photos to life
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balenaCloud
Device deployment and management infrastructure, hosted by balena.
Your first 10 devices are always free and full-featured.
The container-based platform for deploying and managing IoT fleets
Easily develop and deploy IoT fleets, and remotely update and monitor your devices from anywhere in the world.
Develop iteratively
Deploy with confidence
Manage at scale
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Open source software to manage IoT devices
The core of balenaCloud - free and open source
Use our building blocks to create your own device deployment and management platform.
Extensible
Powerful
Easy to use
Open source tools
Start exploring the world of balena with our free, standalone, open source projects
balenaOS
Run Docker containers on embedded devices with a host OS tailored for containers and proven in production.
balenaEngine
A container engine based on Moby Project technology from Docker, for embedded and IoT use cases.
balenaEtcher
Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily – simple for end users and works on any platform.
balenaFin
A board build for fleet owners
Need hardware? Look no further.
We built a carrier board based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, hardened for deployment in the field.
Reliable storage
Industrial power
Flexible networking
More resources
DOCUMENTATION
Follow our getting started guide and learn the inner workings of balena
FORUMS
Engage with our engineers and fellow balena users
PROJECTS
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Find sample projects and useful tools on GitHub
BASE IMAGES
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Build on our base images from DockerHub
Still have questions?
Get in touch and we'll discuss your project.