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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

These rates are for Databasin Cloud (SaaS). Prefer your own Azure tenant? See Self-Install

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.

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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)
Tokens for natural language queries, SQL generation, and AI analysis. Typical interaction uses 2,000–8,000 tokens. One flat rate — no input/output split.
$15 / 1M tokens
$0.015 / 1K tokens · $0.000015 / token
Lakehouse Compute
Trino, Doris & 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 .

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Pipeline Runtime
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Automation Runtime
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AI Tokens (Databasin One)
AI cost / month $0
Storage
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Based on the exact published rates above. Actual usage may vary. Stopped clusters cost nothing.

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Private Azure Tenant · Self-Install

Running in your own tenant?
Different model entirely.

Install Databasin from the Azure Marketplace directly into your own Azure tenant — built for teams that carry their own security and compliance posture. None of the meters on this page apply: you pay Azure directly for your own compute and LLM, and Databasin is licensed per module.

  • Click-and-install from the Azure Marketplace
  • Data never leaves your tenant — your network, your policies, your keys
  • Unlimited seats, per-module licensing
  • Your compute, your LLM — paid to Azure, no markup
Talk to us about Self-Install Per-module pricing tailored to your footprint
Honest Comparison

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
$2,717
/ month
Compute: $2,560 · Pipelines: $100 · Storage: $12 · AI: $45
Everything included. One invoice.
Snowflake + Stack
$5,600+
/ month
Warehouse: $1,920 · Fivetran: ~$1,500 · Tableau: ~$1,750 · Storage: $12
3+ vendors, 3+ invoices.
Databricks + Stack
$5,300+
/ month
SQL Compute: ~$1,760 · Jobs: ~$800 · Tableau: ~$1,750 · Storage: $12
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.
Yes — Databasin Self-Install deploys from the Azure Marketplace directly into your own tenant, for teams that carry their own security and compliance posture. You get unlimited seats, and you pay Azure directly for your own compute and LLM usage; Databasin is licensed per module. The consumption rates on this page apply to Databasin Cloud only — contact us for Self-Install licensing.
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