How much does DVC cost?

DVC publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to Free for DVC Studio. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does DVC have a free plan?

Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers data versioning, pipeline management, experiment tracking.

What is the difference between Open Source and DVC Studio on DVC?

DVC Studio costs Free against Free, and adds web ui, team collaboration, visualizations.

Which machine learning & data science tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 machine learning & data science tools listed alongside DVC have a free tier: Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning, BigQuery ML.

What am I actually paying for with DVC?

The record lists 13 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for machine learning, data analysis, model training.

Does DVC 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 DVC 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 DVC against before paying?

The closest machine learning & data science tools in this directory are Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning. Each has a side-by-side comparison with DVC covering price, platforms and features.

Machine Learning & Data Science · pricing

DVC pricing

DVC 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: Open-source
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

DVC 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.

DVC pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Open Source	Free	3	Entry tier
DVC Studio	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.

Open Source

Free

The entry tier. It covers data versioning, pipeline management, experiment tracking.

DVC Studio

Free

Over Open Source, this tier adds:

Web UI
Team collaboration
Visualizations

Where DVC stops being free

Open Source, Free

Data versioning
Pipeline management
Experiment tracking

No paid tier on record

DVC lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full DVC 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

Data versioning
Pipeline management
Experiment tracking
Remote storage
Git integration

Integrations

Git
S3
Azure Blob
Google Cloud Storage
SSH

Platform

Linux support
Mac support
Windows support

People bring DVC in for machine learning, data analysis, model training, predictive analytics. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to DVC are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Machine Learning & Data Science

Too few machine learning & data science 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.

DVC entry price against other Machine Learning & Data Science tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
DVC (this page)	Free	open-source	-
Comet ML	Free	freemium	-	vs DVC
BentoML	Free	freemium	-	vs DVC
Anaconda	Free, then $15/month	-	-	vs DVC
Azure Machine Learning	Free	usage-based	-	vs DVC
BigQuery ML	Free	usage-based	-	vs DVC
Alteryx	Free	subscription	-	vs DVC

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 DVC badges page.

Before you pay for DVC

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.

DVC runs on linux, mac, windows, and is published by Iterative of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the DVC review, and the rest of the category is under best machine learning & data science tools.

DVC pricing on the vendor's own site

DVC pricing questions

How much does DVC cost?: DVC publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to Free for DVC Studio. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does DVC have a free plan?: Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers data versioning, pipeline management, experiment tracking.
What is the difference between Open Source and DVC Studio on DVC?: DVC Studio costs Free against Free, and adds web ui, team collaboration, visualizations.
Which machine learning & data science tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 machine learning & data science tools listed alongside DVC have a free tier: Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning, BigQuery ML.
What am I actually paying for with DVC?: The record lists 13 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for machine learning, data analysis, model training.
Does DVC 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 DVC 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 DVC against before paying?: The closest machine learning & data science tools in this directory are Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning. Each has a side-by-side comparison with DVC covering price, platforms and features.