February 2025 Pricing Update for MotherDuck Startup Program Members

Business Plan:

We’ve replaced MotherDuck’s Standard Plan with a new plan, called the Business Plan. Here’s an overview of what’s included in the Business Plan. We’ll dive into detail below, but here’s an overview.

The Business Plan is an ideal analytics foundation for startups, especially those with maturing analytics needs, and growing teams. Some key components of the Business Plan include:

• $100/month Platform Access
• Access to Pulse, Standard, and Jumbo compute instance types. Each instance provides unique compute resources, and a billing model aligned to fit its most common use cases. More on compute instances in the next section…
• Unlimited organization members
• Access to Read Scaling, enabling highly concurrent read-heavy workloads like business intelligence and data apps to automatically scale out with multiple compute instances
• Access to AI Functions
• Fast access to MotherDuck experts for support, with a priority response SLA
• Full SOC 2 Type II and GDPR reports, HIPAA BAA available on request

We’ve also announced a “Lite Plan”. This is a more limited platform offering, aimed at individuals and small teams with simple use cases. The Lite Plan is not part of the MotherDuck for Startups program, and cannot be used with Startup program credits.

Read more about the new MotherDuck plan options on our updated pricing page.

Compute:

Pay Per Instance: We’re adding new choices for MotherDuck compute, with Pay Per Instance Standard and Jumbo instances.

• The Pay Per Instance model is based on uptime, which provides more predictable costs you can compare to other data warehouse products.
• The Standard instance is great for everyday tasks and balanced performance.
• The Jumbo instance is useful for heavy workflows like batch ETL pipelines or complex transformations.
• When you run a query, your instance spins up within milliseconds.
• You pay for the seconds that the instance is running, with a minimum of one minute.

Pay Per Query: Our existing instances are now called Pulse.

• These instances are capped in size, however they are billed on our existing Pay Per Query model, metered for billing on Compute Unit seconds.
• The Pulse instance enables lightweight, fully serverless analytics.
• This can be very useful for applications where you have data partitioned by user, ad-hoc query execution, or incremental data processing with smaller data sizes.

Compute Instance Types are assigned per-user, so each user can select the size they need. Review details in the MotherDuck instance types documentation.

Platform Access:

• The Platform Access cost is still covered by your Startup program credits
• MotherDuck Business Plan platform access is $100/month
• Platform access price is no longer inclusive of compute, storage, or other usage

Storage:

• Storage costs are still covered by your Startup program credits
• Storage remains at the current $0.08 / GB
• Business Plan does not include complimentary storage

Read more about storage billing in the MotherDuck storage pricing documentation.

Read Scaling:

• Users can select an independent compute instance type for read scaling vs. read-write, allowing you to right-size the compute resources and metering model for each use case

Support:

• Human-first support from MotherDuck experts is now available directly within the MotherDuck Web UI. Head to the “Help” menu to ask a question or report an issue, and our team will respond promptly via email.
• Priority support is included with the Business plan, with an expedited response SLA.