Usage-Based Pricing
Pay for what you run. See every penny.
No seat licenses. No surprise overages. Every rate published on this page. Billing is per-minute, tracked in real-time, and visible in your dashboard.
$50 in credits with every account — no credit card required
Every Rate, Published
Five billing categories. No hidden line items.
All usage is metered per-minute and displayed in your Billing & Subscription dashboard in real-time.
Pipeline Runtime
ETL/ELT jobs — extracting, transforming, and loading data into your lakehouse. Billed start-to-finish, rounded up to nearest minute.
$5.00
/ hour
$0.083 / minute
Automation Runtime
Scheduled workflows and custom container jobs. Same metering as pipelines — start to finish, rounded up to nearest minute.
$5.00
/ hour
$0.083 / minute
AI Tokens (Databasin One)
Input + output tokens for natural language queries, SQL generation, and AI analysis. ~2,000–5,000 tokens per interaction.
$0.10
/ 1K tokens
$0.0001 / token
Lakehouse Compute
Trino & Spark cluster compute. Billed per node, per minute. Stopped clusters cost nothing.
| Size | vCPU | Memory | Per Hour | Per Minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XSmall | 4 | 8 GB | $2.00 | $0.033 |
| Small | 4 | 16 GB | $3.00 | $0.050 |
| Medium | 8 | 64 GB | $4.00 | $0.067 |
| Large | 16 | 128 GB | $5.00 | $0.083 |
| XLarge | 32 | 256 GB | $6.00 | $0.100 |
Storage
Data stored in your lakehouse — bronze, silver, and gold layers, uploaded files, and shared data. Measured as a daily snapshot.
$0.024
/ GB / month
$24.00 / TB / month
How it works: Storage is measured once per day. Your bill reflects the latest snapshot, not the peak. Deleting data reduces your bill in the next cycle. Includes all data across all projects.
All usage is billed monthly via Stripe. View current-period usage anytime in Admin → Organization → Billing & Subscription.
Cost Builder
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Pipeline Runtime
Pipeline cost / month
$0
Automation Runtime
Automation cost / month
$0
Lakehouse Compute
Compute cost / month
$0
AI Tokens (Databasin One)
AI cost / month
$0
Storage
Storage cost / month
$0
Your Estimate
Pipelines$0
Automations$0
Compute$0
AI Tokens$0
Storage$0
Estimated total
$0
per month (30 days)
Based on the exact published rates above. Actual usage may vary. Stopped clusters cost nothing.
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How Databasin stacks up against Databricks and Snowflake
Published list prices, apples to apples. Databasin includes pipelines, compute, AI, and storage in one platform. With competitors, you need separate tools for each.
| Capability | Databasin | Snowflake (Enterprise) | Databricks (Premium) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Query compute (small) | $2.00/hr (XSmall) | $3.00/hr (XS warehouse, 1 credit/hr) | $5.50+/hr (SQL Serverless, ~10 DBU/hr) |
| Query compute (medium) | $4.00/hr/node (Medium) | $12.00/hr (M warehouse, 4 credits/hr) | $11.00+/hr (SQL Serverless, ~20 DBU/hr) |
| Data pipelines (ETL) | $5.00/hr (included) | Not included — need Fivetran, Airbyte, etc. | $0.25/DBU Jobs Compute + VM costs |
| Storage | $24/TB/mo | $23/TB/mo (compressed) | $23/TB/mo (Azure blob, separate) |
| AI / NL queries | $0.10/1K tokens (included) | Cortex AI — credit-based, varies | DBRX / external LLM — separate billing |
| BI / Dashboards | Included | Not included — need Tableau, Power BI, etc. | Not included — need Tableau, Power BI, etc. |
| Billing granularity | Per minute | Per second (60s minimum) | Per second (varies by workload) |
| Seat / user fees | None | None (compute-based) | None (compute-based) |
Real scenario: Medium analytics workload
4-node medium cluster, 8 hours/day, 20 business days/month. Pipelines running 60 min/day. 500 GB stored. No BI tool or pipeline tool costs for Databasin — included in platform.
Databasin
$3,062
/ month
Compute: $2,560 · Pipelines: $100 · Storage: $12 · AI: $390
Everything included. One invoice.
Everything included. One invoice.
Snowflake + Stack
$5,600+
/ month
Warehouse: $1,920 · Fivetran: ~$1,500 · Tableau: ~$1,750 · Storage: $12
3+ vendors, 3+ invoices.
3+ vendors, 3+ invoices.
Databricks + Stack
$5,300+
/ month
SQL Compute: ~$1,760 · Jobs: ~$800 · Tableau: ~$1,750 · Storage: $12
VM costs additional.
VM costs additional.
Competitor pricing reflects published on-demand list prices for Azure regions as of early 2026. Databricks DBU rates are for Premium tier; Snowflake credits are Enterprise edition. Actual costs vary by region, contract terms, and committed-use discounts. Verify at databricks.com/pricing and snowflake.com/pricing.
Common Questions
Everything you'd want to know before you start
No. Compute billing only applies while your cluster is running. Stopped clusters have zero cost. You can stop and start clusters anytime from your dashboard.
Yes. Compute resources were consumed regardless of whether the job succeeded or failed. A pipeline that runs for 2 hours and fails at the end is billed for 2 hours. This is consistent with how all cloud compute billing works.
Storage is based on a daily snapshot. Your bill reflects the most recent measurement, not the peak. If you clean up data mid-month, your bill goes down. Storage includes all data across all projects within your organization.
No. Databasin is purely usage-based. Add as many users as you want — you're only billed for compute, pipeline, AI, and storage usage. This model rewards adoption rather than penalizing it.
Contact your Databasin administrator to discuss usage alerts and budget controls. We're building self-serve spending controls for an upcoming release.
Yes. Every new account starts with $50 in credits — enough to run pipelines, query data, and explore the platform. No credit card required. When credits run out, add a payment method to continue.
All major credit and debit cards via Stripe. Invoices are generated at the end of each billing period and visible in Admin → Organization → Billing & Subscription → Invoice History.
Yes. If your organization uses its own LLM API key (BYOLLM), you still pay the Databasin platform token fee for orchestration, schema context, and query governance. Your LLM provider charges are separate.
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1
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2
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3
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