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Apache Pinot pricing
Apache Pinot 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 30 August 2026, Apache Pinot 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
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Apache Pinot 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Apache Pinot stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Real-time analytics
- SQL queries
- Horizontal scaling
- Stream ingestion
No paid tier on record
Apache Pinot lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Apache Pinot 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
- Real-time Analytics
- Column-oriented
- Distributed Processing
- SQL Support
- Pluggable Indexing
- Star-tree Index
- Upsert Support
Integrations
- Kafka
- Spark
- Presto
- Superset
- Flink
Platform
- Linux support
- Docker support
- Kubernetes support
People bring Apache Pinot in for sub-second analytics queries on freshly ingested data, user-facing dashboards inside a product, real-time metrics at high ingest rates, petabyte-scale analytics as run at linkedin and uber. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Apache Pinot 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 Pinot (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs Apache Pinot |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Apache Pinot |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Apache Pinot |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Apache Pinot |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Apache Pinot |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Apache Pinot |
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 Pinot badges page.
Before you pay for Apache Pinot
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 Pinot runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, and is published by Apache Software Foundation of Wakefield, Massachusetts. The full record is on the Apache Pinot review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Apache Pinot pricing questions
- How much does Apache Pinot cost?
- Apache Pinot publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does Apache Pinot have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers real-time analytics, sql queries, horizontal scaling.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Apache Pinot have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Apache Pinot?
- The record lists 15 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for sub-second analytics queries on freshly ingested data, user-facing dashboards inside a product, real-time metrics at high ingest rates.
- Does Apache Pinot 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 Pinot 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 Pinot 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 Pinot covering price, platforms and features.