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Presto pricing
Presto publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the databases tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Presto pricing is free. 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
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Presto 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presto | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Presto stops being free
Presto, Free
- Apache 2.0 licence
- Presto Foundation governance under the Linux Foundation
- No node or query limits
- Community support
- Cluster operations and cost are yours
No paid tier on record
Presto lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Presto 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
- Federated querying
- In-memory execution
- Open table format support
- Presto C++ workers
- ANSI SQL
- Pluggable connectors
People bring Presto in for an existing prestodb estate that needs continued upgrades rather than a migration to trino, a team buying ibm watsonx.data, where presto is the underlying query engine, joining a hive or iceberg lake to an operational postgresql database in one query without an etl step, very large scale interactive sql where the meta-tested branch is a specific requirement. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Presto 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presto (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs Presto |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Presto |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Presto |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Presto |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Presto |
| EMQX | Free, then $234/month | Per month by connection and session volume | - | vs Presto |
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 Presto badges page.
Before you pay for Presto
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Presto runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, and is published by Presto Foundation (Linux Foundation) of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Presto review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Presto pricing questions
- How much does Presto cost?
- Presto publishes a single tier, Presto, at Free.
- Does Presto have a free plan?
- Yes. The Presto tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licence, presto foundation governance under the linux foundation, no node or query limits.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Presto have a free tier: Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Presto?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an existing prestodb estate that needs continued upgrades rather than a migration to trino, a team buying ibm watsonx.data, where presto is the underlying query engine, joining a hive or iceberg lake to an operational postgresql database in one query without an etl step.
- Does Presto charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Presto 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 Presto against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Privacera, Dremio, Solace PubSub+. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Presto covering price, platforms and features.