Pricing - Coming in early 2024!
At MotherDuck we believe that most users don’t have huge amounts of data, and truly only query a small portion of that data. For you analytics should not cost a wing and a leg.
MotherDuck pricing philosophy:
- Only pay for what you consume
- Easy to understand, easy to predict, easy to manage
- No runaway bills
Details
- You only pay for what you consume
- You only pay for storage used - hot storage and cold storage
- Cold storage is used to persist your data in MotherDuck
- Hot storage is used to execute your queries
- About hot storage
- You set a maximum hot storage limit to fine-tune your workloads precisely for your needs and to protect against runaway bills
- Your hot storage is instantly autoscaled up to the limit you set and back down to zero, only charging you for the hot storage you used
- Both cold and hot storage are metered per second, down to a single Gigabyte
- Only cloud usage is metered
- MotherDuck can use local resources (e.g. your laptop) to aid in query processing
- Anything that’s done locally is free - it is neither billed nor metered!
- Upcoming: a generous perpetual free tier
- We expect you to be able to do meaningful work for ~$20/month for realistic-sized workloads, even if you run heavy amounts of queries
Frequently Asked Questions
What is “hot storage” ?
- Hot storage represents a unit of resource capacity utilized for query processing, analogous to memory
- In short, the more hot storage you have, the faster your queries run
How can I determine how much “hot storage” I need?
- You can first eyeball it by looking at the size of your dataset. Because analytical queries often query the most recent data, and rarely more than a small number of columns, you need enough “hot storage” for a fraction of your dataset. Thus taking 10% of your dataset size is a good starting point.
- Thereafter, you can experiment with your workload. If you’d like faster performance, increase the “hot storage” maximum. Conversely, if you want to spend less, decrease the maximum.
- We will also provide you with information about how much “hot storage” was used in query history tables.
How can I determine how much “cold storage” I need?
- This storage size should be close to the amount of storage needed on disk or in object storage.
- We will also provide you with storage information in a system table at a latter date.