Hit EVE-NG's 63-node wall?
netplex. free goes to 1,000.
EVE-NG Community caps each lab at 63 nodes. The only way past it is EVE-NG Pro, which raises the ceiling to 1,024 for a licence fee. netplex. runs up to 1,000 nodes in a single lab on the free Associate tier - the limit is how much RAM your host has, not which licence you bought. Need more still? Scale across hosts.
EVE-NG Community's lab is capped at 63 nodes - and the only way past it is a paid Pro licence. That cap is a licensing line, not a technical one. netplex.'s free tier runs up to 1,000 nodes per lab, bounded by the host's RAM. The number of nodes you can build is a hardware question, not a purchase.
A licence line, not a limit of physics.
netplex. free goes to 1,000.
63 is a licence, not your hardware
Community stops at 63 nodes even if your server has RAM to spare. The cap exists to sell Pro, not because the box can't do more.
Pro raises it - for a fee
EVE-NG Pro (~150 EUR) lifts the ceiling to 1,024. That's the supported way past 63 on EVE-NG: pay to unlock.
netplex. free runs 1,000
The free Associate tier runs up to 1,000 nodes in one lab. The real ceiling is your host's memory - add RAM, run more nodes, no licence change.
Scale across hosts
Big topologies can stitch across multiple hosts with a VXLAN fabric, so a single machine's RAM isn't the hard stop either.
EVE-NG vs netplex.
The short version.
| Feature | EVE-NG Community (free) / Pro |
netplex. tier shown per row |
|---|---|---|
| Nodes per lab — free tier | 63 | Up to 1,000 |
| Past the cap | Buy Pro → 1,024 | Already 1,000, free · add RAM for more |
| What bounds scale | Your licence tier | Host RAM — a hardware choice |
| Multi-host scale-out | Not the model | VXLAN fabric across hosts |
| Cost to go past 63 | ~150 EUR (Pro) | Free |
| Modern UI at scale | Dated console | React canvas — handles large topologies |
| Setup | Install + size the server | Under 5 minutes |
EVE-NG facts from eve-ng.net documentation and community sources (2026). netplex. rows are code-verified.
Straight with you
For most cert study, 63 nodes is genuinely plenty - the cap only bites when you build large multi-area or service-provider topologies. And EVE-NG Pro does lift it to 1,024 if you buy in. netplex. gives you roughly that headroom (1,000) on the free tier; past a single host's RAM you're into multi-host territory, which is real work on any platform.
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Free Associate tier - up to 1,000 nodes in a single lab, bounded by RAM, not a licence. Stitch across hosts when you outgrow one box.
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