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Apache Doris pricing
Apache Doris publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the databases tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Apache Doris pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Apache Doris plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Doris | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Apache Doris stops being free
Apache Doris, Free
- Apache 2.0 licence with no usage restrictions
- All engine features included
- Community support via mailing list and Slack
- Commercial managed versions sold separately by VeloDB and SelectDB
No paid tier on record
Apache Doris lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Apache Doris feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- MySQL wire protocol
- Aggregate and unique key models
- Materialised views
- Multi-catalogue federation
- Routine load from Kafka
- Compute storage separation
- Inverted indexes
- Workload groups
People bring Apache Doris in for a team whose mysql read replica can no longer serve reporting queries and wants an olap engine its existing drivers already speak, a real-time dashboard backend needing sub-second aggregation over billions of rows with hundreds of concurrent users, an ad or ecommerce platform that needs updates and deletes on analytical tables, which append-only olap engines handle badly, a data team that wants one sql endpoint over both internal tables and existing hive or iceberg tables in the lake. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Apache Doris are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Too few databases tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Doris (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs Apache Doris |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Apache Doris |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Apache Doris |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Apache Doris |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Apache Doris |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Apache Doris |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Apache Doris badges page.
Before you pay for Apache Doris
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Apache Doris runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, and is published by Apache Software Foundation of Wilmington, Delaware, United States. The full record is on the Apache Doris review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Apache Doris pricing questions
- How much does Apache Doris cost?
- Apache Doris publishes a single tier, Apache Doris, at Free.
- Does Apache Doris have a free plan?
- Yes. The Apache Doris tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licence with no usage restrictions, all engine features included, community support via mailing list and slack.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Apache Doris have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Apache Doris?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a team whose mysql read replica can no longer serve reporting queries and wants an olap engine its existing drivers already speak, a real-time dashboard backend needing sub-second aggregation over billions of rows with hundreds of concurrent users, an ad or ecommerce platform that needs updates and deletes on analytical tables, which append-only olap engines handle badly.
- Does Apache Doris charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Apache Doris prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Apache Doris against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Apache Doris covering price, platforms and features.