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Dremio plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| DREMIO CLOUDFully managed agentic lakehouse on AWS (Azure coming soon). | $0.20 | per DCU (Dremio Compute Unit) |
| DREMIO ENTERPRISEComplete control and customization, deploy anywhere with full flexibility over infrastructure, security, and compliance. | Contact Sales |
As printed on the page captured September 19, 2026.
How does Dremio pricing work?
The value metric is compute, sold in DCUs. Dremio Cloud prints $0.20 per DCU as its headline price, and the comparison table lists 'Consumption based' as the Pricing Model for both Cloud and Enterprise. For a query engine this is a natural fit: cost tracks the compute each query consumes, so a team pays for analysis run rather than for users or data stored. Packaging is two deployment models of one product. Core Capabilities, AI Agent, AI Semantic Layer, Intelligent Query Engine and Open Catalog, are checked for both, and the options separate on Infrastructure Management, 'Dremio-managed' against 'Self-managed', supported infrastructure, upgrades and scalability.
The motion is sales-led. 'Dremio Pricing' with 'Fastest queries. Lowest cost. Highest productivity.' sits over a Contact Us button, and the two cards follow: Dremio Cloud with a MOST POPULAR badge, a purple border and the filled button, and Dremio Enterprise with 'Contact Sales' in the price slot. A stats band shows 2,000+ Companies, 150,000+ Users, 10x Productivity and 99.99% Uptime, a comparison table groups Core Capabilities, Deployment & Infrastructure, Pricing & Access and Security & Governance and ends on a Best For row, and the page closes on Related links and 'Have a pricing question?'. A banner above the navigation reads 'Dremio is now part of SAP', which places the product inside a larger enterprise portfolio.
Under the hood, one compute unit spans two very different cost structures. On Cloud, Dremio runs the infrastructure, so the DCU rate carries compute, operations and upgrades in one price. On Enterprise, the customer runs Dremio on 'K8S (On prem) or Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)', so pricing is set with the sales team around each deployment. A funded trial, '$400 credit for 30 days', lets a team measure its own DCU consumption on real workloads before committing, which is the most reliable way to size a compute meter. Keeping one meter across managed and self-hosted deployments is worth borrowing: a customer can move between them without relearning the bill.
What does Dremio's pricing page do well?
- A per-unit rate is printed as the Cloud headline, $0.20 per DCU, with the acronym expanded beside it
- The Best For row gives direct routing advice: zero-maintenance and fast time to value for Cloud, full control and on-prem or compliance needs for Enterprise
- Deployment rows carry real values, 'Dremio-managed' against 'Self-managed' and 'AWS (Azure Coming Soon)' against 'K8S (On prem) or Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)'
- The stats band quantifies adoption and reliability next to the price, with 99.99% Uptime among four figures
- One card is clearly recommended through the MOST POPULAR badge and purple border, so a two-way fork has a default
What does Dremio's pricing page reveal about its pricing strategy?
- One compute meter across managed and self-hosted deployments lets a customer change where Dremio runs without changing how it is billed
- Identical core capabilities in both columns make the decision about operations: who runs, upgrades and scales the infrastructure
- A $400 trial credit lets a team measure its own DCU consumption, the most direct way to size a compute meter
- Enterprise pricing set in conversation leaves room to shape self-hosted deals around infrastructure, compliance and term
- The Cloud DCU rate bundles compute with operations, upgrades and scaling, so the managed service's value sits inside the unit price
Learn with Orb
- Guide14 usage-based pricing examples One compute meter, $0.20 per DCU, prices both managed and self-hosted deployments, and Orb's examples show what usage-priced companies meter and how they define the unit.
- GuideAn expert's guide to enterprise pricing for SaaS Dremio Enterprise is priced in conversation around infrastructure, compliance and term, and Orb's enterprise guide covers what to weigh when prices are set deal by deal.
Questions about Dremio pricing
How much does Dremio cost?
Dremio's pricing starts at $0.20/DCU. The page shows 2 plans, with the top plan priced through sales.
What pricing model does Dremio use?
Dremio prices by usage. The page is built around talking to the sales team. Its plans are aimed mainly at enterprises.
Does Dremio have a free plan?
Dremio has no free plan, but its paid plans offer a free trial. The lowest paid plan starts at $0.20/DCU.
Does Dremio offer an annual discount?
Dremio's pricing page shows a single billing period. The listed prices start at $0.20/DCU. Terms for the plans priced through sales are set with the sales team.
How is Dremio's pricing page laid out?
The page shows 2 plans, highlights Dremio Cloud, and includes a comparison table. The breakdown above marks 14 points on it: 4 things it does well and 10 insights into the pricing.
What is a DCU in Dremio pricing?
A DCU is a Dremio Compute Unit, the meter Dremio uses to price compute. Dremio Cloud lists its rate as "$0.20 per DCU (Dremio Compute Unit)", and the comparison table shows a "Consumption based" pricing model for both Dremio Cloud and Dremio Enterprise. Cost follows the compute a team uses for its queries.
How does the Dremio Cloud free trial work?
Dremio Cloud offers a free trial with a "$400 credit for 30 days", listed in the Pricing & Access section of the comparison table. The credit lets a team run its own workloads on the fully managed lakehouse and see its DCU consumption firsthand. For Dremio Enterprise, the same row reads "Talk to Sales".
How is Dremio Enterprise priced for self-hosted deployments?
Dremio Enterprise pricing comes through the sales team, with the card reading "Contact our sales team for pricing information." Like Dremio Cloud, it uses a "Consumption based" pricing model. Enterprise runs on "K8S (On prem) or Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)" and offers flexible deployment on cloud, Kubernetes, on-prem or Dremio-as-a-Service (DaaS).
From the page as captured September 19, 2026. Current prices are on dremio.com
Chroma
$250/mo + usageChroma prints all four metered rates in the hero, Write at $2.50 per GiB, Storage at $0.33 per GiB per month, Query at $0.0075 per TiB and Network at $0.09 per GiB returned, then hands the reader a calculator that turns documents and queries into a $79 monthly total. Plans sit on top of the meter: Starter at $0 plus usage, Team at $250 a month plus usage with $100 in credits, and Enterprise on custom terms.
ClickHouse
$0.2181/compute unit/hrClickHouse opens with its model in one line, 'Pay only for the compute and storage you use, metered separately and scaled to zero when idle.', sets the cloud and region, then gives every tier the same two meters: storage flat at '$25.30 Per 1TB / mo' and compute at $0.2181, $0.2985 and $0.3903 per unit per hour. The estimator opens pre-filled with a 1 TB real-time analytics workload at '$658' a month, and an eight-question FAQ explains each line that can appear on the bill.
Confluent
~$385/moConfluent prices serverless Kafka on a composite meter, eCKU-hours plus data in and out per GB plus storage per GB-month, and closes its rate table with an 'Estimated Monthly Starting Cost' of $0, $385, $895 and $2,300 that turns an hourly unit into a budget number. Behind it sit two discount structures and an annual commitment that can be spent across the whole Confluent Cloud stack.
CoreWeave
From $6.50/instance/hrCoreWeave publishes a full rate card: twelve GPU instance types and ten CPU types, each priced per hour on-demand and spot for North America and Europe, then storage, networking, Direct Connect and managed Kubernetes. The unit is a fully specified instance-hour, with GPU count, VRAM, vCPUs, system RAM and local storage printed beside every rate. Reserved capacity, the newest silicon and every next step run through the sales team, which is where a GPU cloud shapes committed deals.
Databricks
From $0.069/CUDatabricks prices a whole data platform on one consumption unit, the DBU, with seven workload tiles that each print a 'Starting at' rate and link to a full SKU price list. Billing runs 'at per second granularity' on pay-as-you-go, and Committed Use Contracts trade larger commitments for discounts that can flex across clouds. The page works as the front door to a rate table, organized by the job a customer is doing.
Datadog
$15/host/moDatadog publishes a rate card per product, with every billable SKU listed in a left-hand navigator from AI Credits to Workflow Automation. Infrastructure Monitoring prices per host across three host levels: Basic, set with sales, beside Pro starting at $ 15 and Enterprise at $ 23 billed annually, with on-demand rates printed beside them and allotments of containers, custom metrics and custom events attached to each paid host. The bill is the sum of the products a customer adopts, and Basic hosts let one account price noncritical workloads at their own level.