Machine Learning · pricing
Pachyderm pricing
Pachyderm 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.
As of 30 August 2026, Pachyderm pricing is free across 2 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
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Pachyderm 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| Enterprise | 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.
Community
FreeThe entry tier. It covers core features, community support.
Enterprise
FreeOver Community, this tier adds:
- Advanced security
- Premium support
- SLAs
Where Pachyderm stops being free
Community, Free
- Core features
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Pachyderm lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Pachyderm 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
- Versioned file system
- Datum-based incremental processing
- Container pipelines
- Automatic provenance
- Parallel execution
- S3 gateway
- Enterprise authentication
- Object storage backends
People bring Pachyderm in for reprocessing a growing archive of images or documents where a full pass every night would be wasteful and only the new files matter, regulated pipelines where an auditor will ask which exact input files and which code version produced a given result, genomics and scientific workflows built from existing command line tools that are easier to containerise than to rewrite, teams that already run kubernetes and want data lineage without adopting a full commercial ml platform. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Pachyderm 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pachyderm (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| ClearML | Free | Open-source self-hosted, with paid hosted and enterprise tiers | - | vs Pachyderm |
| Langwatch | Free, then €29/month | Tiered subscription with usage-based overage charges | - | vs Pachyderm |
| Haystack | Free | Open-source with optional paid enterprise support | - | vs Pachyderm |
| Semantic Kernel | Free | Open source, no pricing | - | vs Pachyderm |
| Fal AI | $1.89/hour | usage-based | - | vs Pachyderm |
| H2O.ai | Free | freemium | - | vs Pachyderm |
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 Pachyderm badges page.
Before you pay for Pachyderm
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.
Pachyderm runs on linux, and is published by Pachyderm (HPE) of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the Pachyderm review, and the rest of the category is under best machine learning tools.
Pachyderm pricing questions
- How much does Pachyderm cost?
- Pachyderm publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Community up to Free for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Pachyderm have a free plan?
- Yes. The Community tier costs nothing and covers core features, community support.
- What is the difference between Community and Enterprise on Pachyderm?
- Enterprise costs Free against Free, and adds advanced security, premium support, slas.
- Which machine learning tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 machine learning tools listed alongside Pachyderm have a free tier: ClearML, Langwatch, Haystack, Semantic Kernel, H2O.ai.
- What am I actually paying for with Pachyderm?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for reprocessing a growing archive of images or documents where a full pass every night would be wasteful and only the new files matter, regulated pipelines where an auditor will ask which exact input files and which code version produced a given result, genomics and scientific workflows built from existing command line tools that are easier to containerise than to rewrite.
- Does Pachyderm 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 Pachyderm 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 Pachyderm against before paying?
- The closest machine learning tools in this directory are ClearML, Langwatch, Haystack, Semantic Kernel. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Pachyderm covering price, platforms and features.