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Cassandra pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Cassandra. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Cassandra catalogue entry carries a starting price of Free, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Cassandra review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Cassandra 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.
Core
- Linear Scalability
- Fault Tolerance
- Multi-datacenter Replication
- Tunable Consistency
- CQL Query Language
- Distributed Architecture
- No Single Point of Failure
Integrations
- DataStax
- Apache Spark
- Apache Kafka
- Presto
- cqlsh
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Docker support
People bring Cassandra in for real-time applications, content management, user profiles, mobile backends, caching. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Cassandra are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Cassandra
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.
Cassandra runs on linux, macos, windows, docker, kubernetes, and is published by Apache Software Foundation of Wakefield, Massachusetts. The full record is on the Cassandra review.
Cassandra pricing questions
- How much does Cassandra cost?
- Cassandra starts at Free. No tier-by-tier breakdown is published on the record we hold.
- Does Cassandra have a free plan?
- Yes, Cassandra is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- What am I actually paying for with Cassandra?
- The record lists 16 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for real-time applications, content management, user profiles.
- Does Cassandra 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 Cassandra 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 Cassandra against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Cassandra to make a useful price comparison.