Databricks Pricing(2026)
3 plans compared · From Free · ★ 4.5/5
All Plans & Pricing
Enterprise
Best for: Custom pricing with volume discounts, dedicated support, and compliance certifications
- ✓ Full platform
- ✓ Dedicated support
- ✓ Custom contracts
Pricing Analysis
Overview
Databricks is priced in DBUs (Databricks Units). All-Purpose Compute is $0.40/DBU (Standard) to $0.70/DBU (Premium) on AWS, with additional cloud VM costs on top. SQL Warehouse (BI) is $0.22/DBU. Jobs are cheaper at $0.15/DBU. Total cost includes DBUs plus underlying cloud compute - budget 2x DBU cost for full TCO.
Which Plan Is Right for You?
$0.40/DBU for compute + cloud VM costs. Good for data engineering pipelines. No Unity Catalog governance features at this tier.
$0.55/DBU. Adds Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, enhanced security, and RBAC. Required for production multi-team environments. Most enterprises land here.
Custom pricing with volume discounts, dedicated support, and compliance certifications. Required at large scale or when Databricks is the strategic data platform for the business.
vs. Category Average
Free tier vs. $427/mo average
Our Verdict
Premium unified data platform. Snowflake competes directly for SQL/BI workloads. If you need ML + data engineering + SQL analytics in one platform, Databricks wins. Pure SQL analytics shops should compare Snowflake and BigQuery first.
