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Dragonfly pricing
Dragonfly publishes 3 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 cloud pricing with flexible tiers
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Dragonfly 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 Tier | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| Business | $2000/month | 5 | +$2000/month, 5 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 6 | 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.
Free Tier
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 100 cloud credits for new signups, equivalent to free trial.
Business
$2000/monthOver Free Tier, this tier adds:
- Starting price for enterprise offering
- Bring-your-own-cloud deployment
- Auto-scaling with custom SLAs
- SSO and MFA support
- Dedicated support
Enterprise
On requestOver Business, this tier adds:
- Custom pricing
- Any-cloud deployment
- Custom instances and sizing
- White-glove migration support
- Advanced security and compliance
- Premium support
Where Dragonfly stops being free
Free Tier, Free
- 100 cloud credits for new signups
- Equivalent to free trial
Business, $2000/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Starting price for enterprise offering
- Bring-your-own-cloud deployment
- Auto-scaling with custom SLAs
- SSO and MFA support
- Dedicated support
What the product covers
The full Dragonfly 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
- Redis API compatibility
Architecture
- Thread-per-core architecture
Performance
- High-performance caching
- Memory efficiency
Features
- Real-time leaderboards
- Message queue support
- ML feature serving
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
People bring Dragonfly in for high-throughput caching for web applications, real-time leaderboards and rankings, message queue and event processing, ml model feature serving at millisecond latencies, gaming session state and player data storage. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Dragonfly 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragonfly (this page) | Free | Usage-based cloud pricing with flexible tiers | - | |
| Apache Solr | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Dragonfly |
| NATS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Dragonfly |
| Redpanda | Free | Source-available community edition with paid enterprise and cloud tiers | - | vs Dragonfly |
| OpenSearch | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately | - | vs Dragonfly |
| RabbitMQ | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately | - | vs Dragonfly |
| Meilisearch | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed cloud billed separately | - | vs Dragonfly |
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 Dragonfly badges page.
Before you pay for Dragonfly
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: 3 tiers between Free and On request, 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.
Dragonfly runs on cloud, aws, gcp, azure, and is published by Dragonfly. The full record is on the Dragonfly review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Dragonfly pricing questions
- How much does Dragonfly cost?
- Dragonfly publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free Tier up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Dragonfly have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Tier tier costs nothing and covers 100 cloud credits for new signups, equivalent to free trial. Paying starts at $2000/month for Business.
- What is the difference between Free Tier and Business on Dragonfly?
- Business costs $2000/month against Free, and adds starting price for enterprise offering, bring-your-own-cloud deployment, auto-scaling with custom slas, sso and mfa support.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Dragonfly worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom pricing, any-cloud deployment, custom instances and sizing, white-glove migration support. It costs On request against $2000/month for Business. 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?
- 8 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Dragonfly have a free tier: Apache Solr, NATS, Redpanda, OpenSearch, RabbitMQ.
- What am I actually paying for with Dragonfly?
- The record lists 8 features across 5 areas: core, architecture, performance, features, deployment. In practice it is brought in for high-throughput caching for web applications, real-time leaderboards and rankings, message queue and event processing.
- Does Dragonfly charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Dragonfly 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 Dragonfly against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Apache Solr, NATS, Redpanda, OpenSearch. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Dragonfly covering price, platforms and features.