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Haystack pricing
Haystack 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 with optional paid enterprise support
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Haystack 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Enterprise Support | On request | 3 | 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.
Open Source
FreeThe entry tier. It covers full framework access, community discord support, github community contributions.
Enterprise Support
On requestOver Open Source, this tier adds:
- Private secure engineering support
- Best practices templates and deployment guides
- Flexible services and integrations
Where Haystack stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Full framework access
- Community Discord support
- GitHub community contributions
No paid tier on record
Haystack lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Haystack 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
- Modular pipeline composition
- Multi-provider LLM support
- Retrieval-augmented generation
- Agent framework
- Memory management
- Observability and debugging
Deployment
- Kubernetes-ready deployment
People bring Haystack in for building production llm applications with full control, creating retrieval-augmented generation systems, developing autonomous ai agents, multi-provider llm orchestration, enterprise ai infrastructure. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Haystack are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Machine Learning
Too few machine learning 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haystack (this page) | Free | Open-source with optional paid enterprise support | - | |
| ClearML | Free | Open-source self-hosted, with paid hosted and enterprise tiers | - | vs Haystack |
| Langwatch | Free, then €29/month | Tiered subscription with usage-based overage charges | - | vs Haystack |
| Semantic Kernel | Free | Open source, no pricing | - | vs Haystack |
| Fal AI | $1.89/hour | usage-based | - | vs Haystack |
| H2O.ai | Free | freemium | - | vs Haystack |
| Dask | Free | open-source | - | vs Haystack |
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 Haystack badges page.
Before you pay for Haystack
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 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.
Haystack runs on python, cloud-agnostic, and is published by deepset GmbH. The full record is on the Haystack review, and the rest of the category is under best machine learning tools.
Haystack pricing questions
- How much does Haystack cost?
- Haystack publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to On request for Enterprise Support. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Haystack have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers full framework access, community discord support, github community contributions.
- What is the difference between Open Source and Enterprise Support on Haystack?
- Enterprise Support costs On request against Free, and adds private secure engineering support, best practices templates and deployment guides, flexible services and integrations.
- Which machine learning tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 machine learning tools listed alongside Haystack have a free tier: ClearML, Langwatch, Semantic Kernel, H2O.ai, Dask.
- What am I actually paying for with Haystack?
- The record lists 7 features across 2 areas: core, deployment. In practice it is brought in for building production llm applications with full control, creating retrieval-augmented generation systems, developing autonomous ai agents.
- Does Haystack 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 Haystack 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 Haystack against before paying?
- The closest machine learning tools in this directory are ClearML, Langwatch, Semantic Kernel, Fal AI. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Haystack covering price, platforms and features.