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Databricks pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Databricks (databricks.com) is a data warehouse. Pay-as-you-go per DBU (Databricks Unit) of compute, billed per second, plus your own cloud storage bill.. Free plan: Free Edition is for learning and non-commercial use only, so it does not count toward the price..

What Databricks costs

  • Startup, 100 GB: $170.30/mo (60 compute-hours x 4 DBU/hr x $0.70/DBU = $168.00, plus 100 GB S3 Standard at $0.023/GB-month = $2.30; total $170.30.)
  • Hobby, 10 GB: $28.23/mo (10 compute-hours x 4 DBU/hr x $0.70 = $28.00, plus 10 GB at $0.023 = $0.23; total $28.23.)
  • Growth, 1 TB: $723/mo (250 compute-hours x 4 DBU/hr x $0.70 = $700.00, plus 1 TB (taken as 1,000 GB) at $0.023 = $23.00; total $723.00. The 10 users add nothing (usage-based).)

Plan compared: SQL Serverless, 2X-Small warehouse (4 DBU/hr) at $0.70/DBU. Every price is the monthly cost, at on-demand list prices, of the same analytics workload in a US region: a startup warehouse with 100 GB stored and 2 TB scanned (or 60 compute-hours) a month as the headline, a 10 GB hobby project and a 1 TB growing company. Scan-priced products are priced on data scanned, compute-priced ones on hours of their smallest compute size, always-on ones for the full month, plus storage; permanent free tiers count, trials and credits do not.

Databricks price hikes

No price hikes on record for Databricks.

Cheaper alternatives to Databricks

At a 100 GB startup warehouse, Databricks costs $170.30/mo. 3 data warehouses cost less:

  • Google BigQuery: $8.32/mo (On-demand: $6.25/TiB of queries after the free 1 TiB, plus $0.023/GiB-mo storage after the free 10 GiB, at 2 TiB scanned)
  • Amazon Redshift: $92.40/mo (Redshift Serverless at 4 RPU, 60 compute-hours, plus 100 GB managed storage)
  • Snowflake: $122.30/mo (On-demand Standard edition, AWS US East (N. Virginia), X-Small warehouse (1 credit/hour), monthly billing)

Databricks alternatives: 3 cheaper data warehouses compared, at every size.

Sources

Pricing page: databricks.com/product/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Official price tables did not load, so the $0.70/DBU SQL Serverless rate and 4 DBU/hr for 2X-Small come from PricingSaaS (snapshot 2026-06-11) and a secondary blog (OWOX, AWS US East, Premium); re-check the live price list. No SQL price change is logged, and PricingSaaS's 2026 entries are renames and an Operational Database (Lakebase) rate cut, so changes stays empty.