Lite
Starting
from$0
For solo practitioners and hobbyists leaving the nest
- Includes:
- Up to 3 internal active users and 2 service accounts
- 10 GB free storage
- 10 hrs Pulse compute per month included
- Pulse instances only
- Community support
Blazing fast analytics, ducking simple pricing
Plans that fit customer-facing analytics and internal data warehousing use cases.
Business
$250PER ORG
/ MONTH + USAGE
Everything you need for production analytics
- Scale up to production with:
- Up to 10 internal active users and unlimited service accounts
- 5 instance types and read-scaling replicas
- 90-day snapshot retention
- Query history
- Support from MotherDuck experts
- 99.9% availability SLA
Enterprise
Custom
Customized plans for large-scale deployments
- Everything in Business, plus:
- Unlimited internal active users and service accounts
- Fixed-cost capacity pricing
- AWS PrivateLink connectivity
- HIPAA BAA
Looking for an annual plan?
Moving to MotherDuck, a billed by-the-second cloud offering is a no-brainer for us, considering the elegance and efficiency of a single node system compared to traditional OLAP solutions.
Nico Ritschel
Director of Engineering @ atm.com
MotherDuck is insanely performant, and there’s no infrastructure to manage. The cost of experimentation is incredibly low — which means we can afford to ask more questions and build more features, faster.
Kristov Paulus
Founder, CIO @ Kultura Capital
Compare Plans
Region
USA (N. Virginia): us-east-1
MotherDuck Data WarehouseData
Warehouse
MotherDuck Data WarehouseData
Warehouse
Internal Users
Internal users in your organization.
Up to 3 active users
Up to 10 active users
Unlimited
End Users
End users of applications built on MotherDuck.
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Service Accounts
Service accounts for programmatic access to your organization. Learn more about Service Accounts
Up to 2
Unlimited
Unlimited
Platform Access
Access to MotherDuck for your team. Learn more about Platform Access
$0 per org / month
$250 per org / month
Custom
Storage
Cost effective, low latency storage. Learn more about Storage
$0.04 per GB / month
$0.04 per GB / month
Custom
Compute Instances:
Pulse
(Billed per second)For lightweight, bursty workloads. Billed per compute unit (CU) second. Learn more about Pulse compute pricing
$0.60 per hour
$0.60 per hour
Custom
Standard
(Billed per second)For everyday tasks and balanced performance. Billed per second. Learn more about Standard compute pricing
$2.40 per hour
Custom
Jumbo
(Billed per second)For predictable performance on heavy workloads. Billed per second. Learn more about Jumbo compute pricing
$4.80 per hour
Custom
Mega
(Billed per second)For demanding jobs at an even larger scale. Billed per second. Learn more about Mega compute pricing
$12.00 per hour
Custom
Giga
(Billed per second)For the largest and toughest workloads. Billed per second. Learn more about Giga compute pricing
$36.00 per hour
Custom
Read Scaling
Enable up to 16 read-scaling replicas, each backed by its own instance, for BI dashboards and read-only use cases. Learn more about Read Scaling
Query History
A consolidated view of all queries run across your organization. Learn more about Query History
AI Functions
Single call and bulk AI functions, including prompt() and embedding(). Learn more about AI Functions
$1.00 per AI Unit
$1.00 per AI Unit
Dual Execution
Incredibly efficient queries, shared across local and cloud compute. Learn more about Dual Execution
Snapshot Retention
Queryable database snapshots for history and backup. Learn more about Snapshot Retention
Up to 1 day
Up to 90 days
Up to 90 days
Workflow and CollaborationWorkflow
Workflow and CollaborationWorkflow
Column Explorer
Instantly visualize the columns of your tables and result sets. Learn more about Column Explorer
Database Sharing
Share zero-copy snapshots for easier collaboration Learn more about Database Sharing
Security And ComplianceSecurity &
Compliance
Security And ComplianceSecurity &
Compliance
Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On (SSO) via standards-based SAML & OIDC (Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace). Learn more about Single Sign-On
GDPR Compliance
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant. Learn more about GDPR Compliance
AWS Private Link
Secure, private connectivity through the AWS network
Support
Support
Human-First SupportSupport
Helpful support engineers in the US + EU. Learn more about Human-First Support
Community
Access to MotherDuck experts
Standard
Access to MotherDuck experts with a response SLA
Priority
Faster access to MotherDuck experts with an expedited response SLA
In-App Expert ChatIn-App
Expert Chat
Expert Chat
Chat with product experts directly from the MotherDuck UI
Availability SLA
Guaranteed uptime for your production workloads. Learn more about Availability SLA
99.9%
Custom
Serverless Instances
MotherDuck’s Hypertenancy model gives each internal or end user an isolated compute instance to enable independent scaling.
Pulse
Our smallest instance, perfect for ad-hoc analytics tasks
Commonly used when...
- Doing ad-hoc analytics tasks with datasets in MotherDuck
- Building read-only workloads with high volumes of concurrent users like customer-facing analytics applications
- A larger, dedicated instance is overkill for the task at hand
Included Plans:
Lite Business Enterprise
Standard
Built to handle common data warehouse workloads, including loads and transforms
Commonly used when...
- Performing typical data engineering tasks like data ingest and dbt transformations
- Running dbt jobs that have multiple transformations in parallel
- Building out standard data pipelines before moving to production and scaling up
Included Plans:
Lite Business Enterprise
Jumbo
For larger data warehouse workloads with many transformations or complex aggregations
Commonly used when...
- Query complexity, data volume, and the number of transformations are too high for the Standard instance
- Performing complex joins and aggregations on growing datasets using event stream data or nested JSON with changing schemas
- Running faster with your workloads
Included Plans:
Lite Business Enterprise
And for even heavier workloads...
Mega
An extremely large instance for when you need complex transformations done quickly
Commonly used when...
- Queries are too complex or data volumes too high for Jumbo instances to handle in crunch time
- Running a weekly job that rebuilds all of your tables and it has to run in minutes, not hours
- One customer has 10x the amount of data as others and you want to deliver same speed
Included Plans:
Lite Business Enterprise
Giga
Largest instances enable the toughest transformations to run faster
Commonly used when...
- Your data workload is so complex that nothing else will work
- Running a one-time job to go back and restate revenue for the last 10 years at a large company
- You need a growth path beyond Mega for when your data volume and complexity grows 10x
Included Plans:
Lite Business Enterprise
flock together with 40+ integration partners
Built for humans, powered by ducks
MotherDuck’s strategic partnership with DuckDB Labs brings the fast improving efficiencies of DuckDB’s query engine from local machines to the cloud as a managed service. Working closely with the DuckDB Labs team has helped us co-create a shared vision for the future of blazing fast analytics. Together, we are committed to cutting-edge innovation in service of ergonomic, radically streamlined analytics workflows.
Support with a heart
Great technology deserves a remarkable customer experience to match. We believe a thoughtful, human-first approach to delivering great support is as important as building great products. Our Customer team genuinely cares about your success and strives to act as an extension of your own team.
Trusted security standards
Keeping your data safe and secure in the MotherDuck nest is our top priority. Our robust security and privacy program uses a defense in-depth strategy to protect your most valuable business assets and fortify trust. MotherDuck is SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant, with full reports and HIPAA BAAs available on request for Business Plan customers.
FAQS
In MotherDuck, an Organization (Org for short) is a team of users. Each Org has member limits aligned to your pricing plan. Accounts for team members and service accounts will count towards the Org members included in your pricing plan.
Depending on the Instance Type, MotherDuck meters compute on demand or per-instance. For detailed information on compute pricing and metering, please refer to our pricing documentation.
MotherDuck meters and bills based on the number of unique active human users in your organization per calendar month. Active users are individuals who sign into MotherDuck in a given calendar month.
Service accounts are organization-owned, non-human accounts used by applications, jobs, and infrastructure (such as dbt, schedulers, CI/CD pipelines, or BI tools) - they are metered and billed separately from active users.
MotherDuck uses cloud object storage. Usage is metered on the size of compressed data stored on-disk.
To provide data recoverability, MotherDuck charges for 7 days’ worth of fail-safe data stored and meters on a per-day basis. Any data that is mutated or deleted will be retained for 7 days.
MotherDuck does not charge you for: Data managed by you in your own object storage bucket, data stored on your laptop, or MotherDuck-managed data used to provide zero-copy clones called shares and associated data sharing features.
1 AI Unit = $1.00
Please refer to the Documentation for a detailed overview of how AI units burn down against SQL Assistant and Bulk AI Functions.
Paid Plan customers have full access to FixIt, MotherDuck’s in-line suggestions to help resolve common SQL errors, and usage-based pricing for SQL Assistant and Bulk AI Functions.
Free Plan users have full access to FixIt and limited access to our SQL Assistant Functions.
MotherDuck is currently available in the AWS us-east-1 and AWS eu-central-1 regions. We have plans to expand to additional regions as part of our roadmap and encourage you to upvote (US-West) or add other desired regions to Canny.
Each MotherDuck Organization is currently scoped to a single cloud region that must be chosen at Org creation when signing up.
No - MotherDuck is a managed cloud service.
Yes - we offer a free 7-day trial of the Business plan with full access to all features. We also offer a Lite plan with 10 GB of storage and 10 hours of Pulse compute per month included.
Yes - teams who are interested in an annual contract have the option to pre-commit to a level of MotherDuck usage. To learn more, please connect with our Sales team.
MotherDuck is committed to protecting customer data, honoring your global privacy rights, and securing the data you provide to us through the use of our products. We build our platform using best practices for highly available, scalable, and secure cloud applications, and we regularly monitor and assess our program to ensure that it meets or exceeds compliance and regulatory requirements. For more information and details about our privacy and security programs, please visit our Trust & Security page.
We do not currently have any discounts for schools or students. Anyone is welcome to use MotherDuck’s Free Plan.
We do not currently have any discounts for non-profits. Anyone is welcome to use MotherDuck’s Free Plan.
Please refer to MotherDuck’s Terms of Service for more information. If you have additional questions, please reach out to our Customer team for assistance.
