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Canary Labs pricing
Canary Labs publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Canary Labs pricing is $3000/year across 4 published tiers. 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
- $3000/year
- Model
- Per tag band per year
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Not on record
Canary Labs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscription, 3,500 tags | $3000/year | 4 | Entry tier |
| Perpetual, 3,500 tags | $8730/one-time | 4 | +$5730/one-time, 4 more features |
| Private cloud, 3,500 tags | $12320/year | 3 | +$3590/year, 3 more features |
| Enterprise unlimited | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Subscription, 3,500 tags
$3000/yearThe entry tier. It covers unlimited axiom clients, unlimited excel clients, support and upgrades included, annual billing, quarterly on request.
Perpetual, 3,500 tags
$8730/one-timeOver Subscription, 3,500 tags, this tier adds:
- 7,400 USD licence plus 1,330 USD first-year CustomerCare
- CustomerCare renews at 18 percent of licence cost per year
- Unlimited clients
- Pays back against subscription after roughly three years
Private cloud, 3,500 tags
$12320/yearOver Perpetual, 3,500 tags, this tier adds:
- Hosted by Canary
- 1,500 USD one-time setup fee per system
- Scales to around 58,684 USD per year at 60,000 tags
Enterprise unlimited
On requestOver Private cloud, 3,500 tags, this tier adds:
- Unlimited tags
- Negotiated licensing terms
- Quoted pricing
What the product covers
The full Canary Labs 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
- Loss-less compression
- Unlimited clients
- Store and forward
- Views service
- Sparkplug B
- Calculation engine
- Axiom
- ODBC and REST
People bring Canary Labs in for a manufacturer that needs a compliant historian but cannot justify a pi system enterprise agreement, a water utility replacing scada-embedded logging with a historian that survives the next scada replacement, an ignition site that wants long-term storage and trending without paying per-client for dashboards, a plant with regulatory data-retention obligations where swinging-door compression would not survive an audit. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Canary Labs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canary Labs (this page) | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Canary Labs |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Canary Labs |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Canary Labs |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Canary Labs |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Canary Labs |
| EMQX | Free, then $234/month | Per month by connection and session volume | - | vs Canary Labs |
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 Canary Labs badges page.
Before you pay for Canary Labs
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: 4 tiers between $3000/year and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Canary Labs against the tools that do have one before committing.
Canary Labs runs on windows, web, and is published by Canary Labs, Inc. of Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The full record is on the Canary Labs review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Canary Labs pricing questions
- How much does Canary Labs cost?
- Canary Labs publishes 4 tiers, from $3000/year for Subscription, 3,500 tags up to On request for Enterprise unlimited. The cheapest paid tier is $3000/year.
- Does Canary Labs have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Canary Labs is listed as Per tag band per year. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Subscription, 3,500 tags and Perpetual, 3,500 tags on Canary Labs?
- Perpetual, 3,500 tags costs $8730/one-time against $3000/year, and adds 7,400 usd licence plus 1,330 usd first-year customercare, customercare renews at 18 percent of licence cost per year, unlimited clients, pays back against subscription after roughly three years.
- Is the Enterprise unlimited plan on Canary Labs worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is unlimited tags, negotiated licensing terms, quoted pricing. It costs On request against $3000/year for Subscription, 3,500 tags. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Canary Labs have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Canary Labs?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a manufacturer that needs a compliant historian but cannot justify a pi system enterprise agreement, a water utility replacing scada-embedded logging with a historian that survives the next scada replacement, an ignition site that wants long-term storage and trending without paying per-client for dashboards.
- Does Canary Labs charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Canary Labs 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 Canary Labs against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Presto, Privacera, Dremio, Solace PubSub+. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Canary Labs covering price, platforms and features.