How much does Databricks cost?

Databricks publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Community Edition up to $0.07/DBU for Standard. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Community Edition and Standard on Databricks?

Standard costs $0.07/DBU against Free, and adds jobs compute, sql compute, standard support.

Does Databricks charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Databricks 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 Databricks against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Databricks to make a useful price comparison.

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Databricks pricing

Databricks publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Usage-based
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Databricks 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.

Databricks pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Community Edition	Free	3	Entry tier
Standard	$0.07/DBU	3	+$0.07/DBU, 3 more features

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.

Community Edition

Free

The entry tier. It covers limited cluster, notebook environment, community support.

Standard

$0.07/DBU

Over Community Edition, this tier adds:

Jobs compute
SQL compute
Standard support

Where Databricks stops being free

Community Edition, Free

Limited cluster
Notebook environment
Community support

Standard, $0.07/DBU

The first thing you pay for:

Jobs compute
SQL compute
Standard support

What the product covers

The full Databricks 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

Delta Lake
Apache Spark
MLflow
Unity Catalog
Photon Engine
Collaborative Notebooks
Auto-scaling

Integrations

AWS
Azure
GCP
Tableau
Power BI

Platform

Web support
Aws support
Azure support
Gcp support

People bring Databricks in for running spark data engineering pipelines on managed clusters, building a lakehouse over data in cloud object storage, training and serving machine learning models alongside the data. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Databricks are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Databricks

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: 2 tiers between Free and $0.07/DBU, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Databricks runs on web, aws, azure, gcp, and is published by Databricks Inc. of San Francisco, CA, USA. The full record is on the Databricks review.

Databricks pricing on the vendor's own site