How much does Dremio cost?

Dremio publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Community Edition up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Community Edition and Dremio Cloud on Dremio?

Dremio Cloud costs $0.2/hour against Free, and adds billed at $0.20 per dremio compute unit, includes query execution, reflections and background processing, 400 dollar trial credit for 30 days, managed on aws.

Is the Enterprise plan on Dremio worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is self-managed on kubernetes, on premises or any cloud, enterprise security, sso and governance, vendor support with sla, priced by negotiation. It costs On request against $0.2/hour for Dremio Cloud. 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?

4 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Dremio have a free tier: Presto, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.

Does Dremio 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 Dremio 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 Dremio against before paying?

The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Solace PubSub+. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Dremio covering price, platforms and features.

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Dremio pricing

Dremio 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.

As of 31 August 2026, Dremio pricing is free, then $0.2/hour across 3 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: Free, then $0.2/hour
Model: Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Dremio 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.

Dremio pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Community Edition	Free	4	Entry tier
Dremio Cloud	$0.2/hour	4	+$0.2/hour, 4 more features
Enterprise	On request	4	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.

Community Edition

Free

The entry tier. It covers self-managed on your own hardware, sql engine and semantic layer, no vendor support, missing enterprise security and governance features.

Dremio Cloud

$0.2/hour

Over Community Edition, this tier adds:

Billed at $0.20 per Dremio Compute Unit
Includes query execution, Reflections and background processing
400 dollar trial credit for 30 days
Managed on AWS

Enterprise

On request

Over Dremio Cloud, this tier adds:

Self-managed on Kubernetes, on premises or any cloud
Enterprise security, SSO and governance
Vendor support with SLA
Priced by negotiation

Where Dremio stops being free

Community Edition, Free

Self-managed on your own hardware
SQL engine and semantic layer
No vendor support
Missing enterprise security and governance features

Dremio Cloud, $0.2/hour

The first thing you pay for:

Billed at $0.20 per Dremio Compute Unit
Includes query execution, Reflections and background processing
400 dollar trial credit for 30 days
Managed on AWS

What the product covers

The full Dremio 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

Arrow-based execution
Reflections
Semantic layer
Iceberg catalogue
Federated queries
Autonomous management
Fine-grained access control
BI connectors

People bring Dremio in for a company with petabytes of parquet in s3 that wants bi dashboards without duplicating it into a warehouse, a data platform team standardising on apache iceberg and needing a sql engine plus catalogue that does not lock the tables in, an analytics group accelerating slow lake queries with reflections instead of hand-built aggregate tables, a regulated enterprise that must keep data on premises but wants a modern lakehouse sql layer. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Dremio 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.

Dremio entry price against other Databases tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Dremio (this page)	Free, then $0.2/hour	Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed	-
Canary Labs	$3000/year	Per tag band per year	-	vs Dremio
Presto	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Dremio
Privacera	On request	quote	-	vs Dremio
Solace PubSub+	Free	quote	-	vs Dremio
StarRocks	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Dremio
EMQX	Free, then $234/month	Per month by connection and session volume	-	vs Dremio

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 Dremio badges page.

Before you pay for Dremio

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.

Dremio runs on linux, kubernetes, cloud, docker, and is published by Dremio Corporation of Santa Clara, California, United States. The full record is on the Dremio review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.

Dremio pricing on the vendor's own site

Dremio pricing questions

How much does Dremio cost?: Dremio publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Community Edition up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Dremio have a free plan?: Yes. The Community Edition tier costs nothing and covers self-managed on your own hardware, sql engine and semantic layer, no vendor support. Paying starts at $0.2/hour for Dremio Cloud.
What is the difference between Community Edition and Dremio Cloud on Dremio?: Dremio Cloud costs $0.2/hour against Free, and adds billed at $0.20 per dremio compute unit, includes query execution, reflections and background processing, 400 dollar trial credit for 30 days, managed on aws.
Is the Enterprise plan on Dremio worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is self-managed on kubernetes, on premises or any cloud, enterprise security, sso and governance, vendor support with sla, priced by negotiation. It costs On request against $0.2/hour for Dremio Cloud. 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?: 4 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Dremio have a free tier: Presto, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
What am I actually paying for with Dremio?: The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a company with petabytes of parquet in s3 that wants bi dashboards without duplicating it into a warehouse, a data platform team standardising on apache iceberg and needing a sql engine plus catalogue that does not lock the tables in, an analytics group accelerating slow lake queries with reflections instead of hand-built aggregate tables.
Does Dremio 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 Dremio 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 Dremio against before paying?: The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Solace PubSub+. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Dremio covering price, platforms and features.