Database & Data Management · pricing
QuestDB pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for QuestDB. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the database & data management tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The QuestDB catalogue entry carries no price and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the QuestDB review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full QuestDB 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
- High Throughput Ingestion
- SQL Support
- Time-series Optimization
- SIMD Vectorization
- Column-oriented Storage
- Built-in Web Console
- InfluxDB Line Protocol
Integrations
- PostgreSQL
- Grafana
- Telegraf
- Kafka
- Pandas
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Docker support
- Web support
People bring QuestDB in for time-series analytics ingesting up to 20m rows/second from iot sensors or financial data feeds, real-time dashboarding with 32ms time-to-first-row latency for minute-level analytics, applications requiring multi-tier storage (hot ingest, real-time sql, cold parquet archive). If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to QuestDB are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Database & Data Management
Too few database & data management 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuestDB (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Knack | On request | subscription | - | vs QuestDB |
| Ninox | On request | subscription | - | vs QuestDB |
| Grist | On request | subscription | - | vs QuestDB |
| Cloudinary | Free | freemium | - | vs QuestDB |
| Azure SQL | Free | - | - | vs QuestDB |
| Amazon Aurora | Free | usage-based | - | vs QuestDB |
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 QuestDB badges page.
Before you pay for QuestDB
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
QuestDB runs on docker, kubernetes, cloud (aws, azure, gcp), and is published by QuestDB Ltd. of London, United Kingdom. The full record is on the QuestDB review, and the rest of the category is under best database & data management tools.
QuestDB pricing questions
- How much does QuestDB cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for QuestDB, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does QuestDB have a free plan?
- Yes, QuestDB is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- Which database & data management tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 database & data management tools listed alongside QuestDB have a free tier: Cloudinary, Azure SQL, Amazon Aurora, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot.
- What am I actually paying for with QuestDB?
- The record lists 17 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for time-series analytics ingesting up to 20m rows/second from iot sensors or financial data feeds, real-time dashboarding with 32ms time-to-first-row latency for minute-level analytics, applications requiring multi-tier storage (hot ingest, real-time sql, cold parquet archive).
- Does QuestDB charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 QuestDB 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 QuestDB against before paying?
- The closest database & data management tools in this directory are Knack, Ninox, Grist, Cloudinary. Each has a side-by-side comparison with QuestDB covering price, platforms and features.