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VAST Data pricing
VAST Data publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the file storage tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, VAST Data pricing is on request. 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
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
VAST Data 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAST Data Platform | On request | 5 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full VAST Data 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
- Disaggregated architecture
- Similarity-based reduction
- All-flash single tier
- Multi-protocol access
- Wide erasure coding
- GPU-oriented throughput
- Snapshots and replication
People bring VAST Data in for a gpu training cluster where storage throughput, not compute, is the bottleneck on job completion, a genomics group holding petabytes of sequencing output that must stay immediately readable rather than archived to tape, a quantitative finance team running backtests over historical market data that a disk tier cannot serve fast enough, an organisation consolidating a fast tier and an archive tier into one system to reduce rack space and power draw. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to VAST Data are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in File Storage
Too few file storage 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAST Data (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| Cloudian | On request | quote | - | vs VAST Data |
| Panzura | On request | quote | - | vs VAST Data |
| Scality RING | On request | quote | - | vs VAST Data |
| LucidLink | $7/month | Per member per month plus storage | - | vs VAST Data |
| Google Drive | Free | Free tier plus paid storage add-on | - | vs VAST Data |
| Storj | Free, then $4/month | Per terabyte per month | - | vs VAST Data |
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 VAST Data badges page.
Before you pay for VAST Data
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 On request. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare VAST Data against the tools that do have one before committing.
VAST Data runs on linux, and is published by VAST Data of New York, New York, United States. The full record is on the VAST Data review, and the rest of the category is under best file storage tools.
VAST Data pricing questions
- How much does VAST Data cost?
- VAST Data publishes a single tier, VAST Data Platform, at On request.
- Does VAST Data have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: VAST Data is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which file storage tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 file storage tools listed alongside VAST Data have a free tier: Google Drive, Storj, Cloudflare R2, IDrive e2.
- What am I actually paying for with VAST Data?
- The record lists 7 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a gpu training cluster where storage throughput, not compute, is the bottleneck on job completion, a genomics group holding petabytes of sequencing output that must stay immediately readable rather than archived to tape, a quantitative finance team running backtests over historical market data that a disk tier cannot serve fast enough.
- Does VAST Data 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 VAST Data 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 VAST Data against before paying?
- The closest file storage tools in this directory are Cloudian, Panzura, Scality RING, LucidLink. Each has a side-by-side comparison with VAST Data covering price, platforms and features.