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Apache Hadoop pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Apache Hadoop. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the technology tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Apache Hadoop 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
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Apache Hadoop catalogue entry carries no price and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Apache Hadoop review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Apache Hadoop 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
- HDFS
- YARN
- MapReduce
- HDFS federation and high availability
- Kerberos security
- Rack awareness
- S3A and object store connectors
- Ecosystem compatibility
People bring Apache Hadoop in for operating an existing multi-petabyte on-premises estate where data residency or egress costs rule out moving to cloud object storage, running spark or flink under yarn on hardware you already own, using hdfs as the storage layer, keeping long-lived regulated archives on infrastructure entirely within your own data centres and legal jurisdiction, maintaining legacy hive and mapreduce workloads during a staged migration to a lakehouse or cloud platform. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Apache Hadoop are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Technology
Too few technology 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 Hadoop (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Personetics | On request | quote | - | vs Apache Hadoop |
| Zeta | On request | quote | - | vs Apache Hadoop |
| Finxact | On request | quote | - | vs Apache Hadoop |
| Thought Machine | On request | quote | - | vs Apache Hadoop |
| Alkami | On request | quote | - | vs Apache Hadoop |
| Datadog | $15/month | - | - | vs Apache Hadoop |
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 Hadoop badges page.
Before you pay for Apache Hadoop
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Apache Hadoop runs on not recorded. The full record is on the Apache Hadoop review, and the rest of the category is under best technology tools.
Apache Hadoop pricing questions
- How much does Apache Hadoop cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for Apache Hadoop, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does Apache Hadoop have a free plan?
- Yes, Apache Hadoop is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- Which technology tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 technology tools listed alongside Apache Hadoop have a free tier: Canny.
- What am I actually paying for with Apache Hadoop?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for operating an existing multi-petabyte on-premises estate where data residency or egress costs rule out moving to cloud object storage, running spark or flink under yarn on hardware you already own, using hdfs as the storage layer, keeping long-lived regulated archives on infrastructure entirely within your own data centres and legal jurisdiction.
- Does Apache Hadoop charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 Hadoop 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 Hadoop against before paying?
- The closest technology tools in this directory are Personetics, Zeta, Finxact, Thought Machine. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Apache Hadoop covering price, platforms and features.