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Steampipe pricing
Steampipe publishes 4 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 31 August 2026, Steampipe pricing is free, then $49/month across 4 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, then $49/month
- Model
- Open source, with paid hosting through Turbot Pipes
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Steampipe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steampipe CLI | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Pipes Developer | Free | 3 | +$0/month, 3 more features |
| Pipes Team | $49/month | 4 | +$49/month, 4 more features |
| Pipes Enterprise | $249/month | 5 | +$200/month, 4 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.
Steampipe CLI
FreeThe entry tier. It covers agpl-3.0, all plugins, no user or query limits, community support.
Pipes Developer
FreeOver Steampipe CLI, this tier adds:
- One user
- 400 compute minutes
- 3GB storage
Pipes Team
$49/monthOver Pipes Developer, this tier adds:
- Three users
- 2,000 compute minutes
- 20GB storage
- Shared workspaces and role based access
Pipes Enterprise
$249/monthOver Pipes Team, this tier adds:
- 10,000 compute minutes
- 100GB storage
- SAML and directory sync
- Additional users charged separately
Where Steampipe stops being free
Steampipe CLI, Free
- AGPL-3.0
- All plugins
- No user or query limits
- Community support
Pipes Team, $49/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Three users
- 2,000 compute minutes
- 20GB storage
- Shared workspaces and role based access
What the product covers
The full Steampipe 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
- SQL over live APIs
- Wide plugin set
- Embedded Postgres
- Compliance benchmarks
- Joins across providers
- Hosted option
People bring Steampipe in for security teams answering posture questions against live cloud accounts rather than a nightly export, compliance evidence gathering where the answer must reflect the account at the moment it is asked, inventory and drift questions spanning several cloud providers in one query, engineers who would rather write sql than learn each provider command line tool. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Steampipe are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Developer Tools
Across the 5 developer tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $39/month. Steampipe starts at $49/month, which puts it above the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steampipe (this page) | Free, then $49/month | Open source, with paid hosting through Turbot Pipes | - | |
| Tilt | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Steampipe |
| Hookdeck | Free, then $39/month | Per month by delivered event count | - | vs Steampipe |
| Jitsu | Free, then $99/month | Per month by event volume | - | vs Steampipe |
| Ona (formerly Gitpod) | Free, then $20/month | Per month by compute unit | - | vs Steampipe |
| Restate | Free, then $300/month | Per month by durable action count | - | vs Steampipe |
| Cloud Native Buildpacks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Steampipe |
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 Steampipe badges page.
Before you pay for Steampipe
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: 4 tiers between Free and $249/month, 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.
Steampipe runs on macos, linux, windows, docker, web, and is published by Turbot HQ, Inc of Sanford, North Carolina, United States. The full record is on the Steampipe review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.
Steampipe pricing questions
- How much does Steampipe cost?
- Steampipe publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Steampipe CLI up to $249/month for Pipes Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Steampipe have a free plan?
- Yes. The Steampipe CLI tier costs nothing and covers agpl-3.0, all plugins, no user or query limits. Paying starts at $49/month for Pipes Team.
- What is the difference between Steampipe CLI and Pipes Developer on Steampipe?
- Pipes Developer costs Free against Free, and adds one user, 400 compute minutes, 3gb storage.
- Is the Pipes Enterprise plan on Steampipe worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 10,000 compute minutes, 100gb storage, saml and directory sync, additional users charged separately. It costs $249/month against $49/month for Pipes Team. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Steampipe expensive for a developer tools tool?
- It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 5 developer tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $39/month; Steampipe starts at $49/month.
- Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Steampipe have a free tier: Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod), Restate.
- What am I actually paying for with Steampipe?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for security teams answering posture questions against live cloud accounts rather than a nightly export, compliance evidence gathering where the answer must reflect the account at the moment it is asked, inventory and drift questions spanning several cloud providers in one query.
- Does Steampipe charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Steampipe 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 Steampipe against before paying?
- The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Steampipe covering price, platforms and features.