Database & Data Management · pricing
DataStax pricing
DataStax 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
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
DataStax 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Pay As You Go | Free | 3 | +$0/month, 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.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 5gb storage, 40m read/write ops, vector search.
Pay As You Go
FreeOver Free, this tier adds:
- Usage-based pricing
- Multi-region
- Enterprise support
Where DataStax stops being free
Free, Free
- 5GB storage
- 40M read/write ops
- Vector search
No paid tier on record
DataStax lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full DataStax 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
- Cassandra Compatible
- Vector Search
- Serverless
- Multi-cloud
- Streaming
- CDC
- GraphQL API
Integrations
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Kafka
- Spark
- Kubernetes
Platform
- Web support
- Aws support
- Azure support
- Gcp support
People bring DataStax 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 DataStax are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Database & Data Management
Too few database & data management 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataStax (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Knack | On request | subscription | - | vs DataStax |
| Ninox | On request | subscription | - | vs DataStax |
| Grist | On request | subscription | - | vs DataStax |
| Cloudinary | Free | freemium | - | vs DataStax |
| Azure SQL | Free | - | - | vs DataStax |
| Amazon Aurora | Free | usage-based | - | vs DataStax |
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 DataStax badges page.
Before you pay for DataStax
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 Free, 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.
DataStax runs on web, aws, azure, gcp, and is published by DataStax Inc. of Santa Clara, California. The full record is on the DataStax review, and the rest of the category is under best database & data management tools.
DataStax pricing questions
- How much does DataStax cost?
- DataStax publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to Free for Pay As You Go. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does DataStax have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 5gb storage, 40m read/write ops, vector search.
- What is the difference between Free and Pay As You Go on DataStax?
- Pay As You Go costs Free against Free, and adds usage-based pricing, multi-region, enterprise support.
- Which database & data management tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 database & data management tools listed alongside DataStax have a free tier: Cloudinary, Azure SQL, Amazon Aurora, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot.
- What am I actually paying for with DataStax?
- 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 DataStax 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 DataStax 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 DataStax against before paying?
- The closest database & data management tools in this directory are Knack, Ninox, Grist, Cloudinary. Each has a side-by-side comparison with DataStax covering price, platforms and features.