Starburst pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Free: $0 forever
- Pro: $0.5 per credit
- Enterprise: $0.75 per credit
- Mission-Critical: $1 per credit
- Worth noting: Paid plans are priced per credit, a universal unit of compute; credit prices vary by tier. Annual commitments may be eligible for discounted pricing, available by contacting sales. Free trial: 30 days with $500 in compute resources.
Plans
Free
$0 forever
- Create and run up to 3 clusters
- Access to standard cluster execution mode for ad hoc queries
Pro
$0.5 per credit
- Flexible cluster execution modes
- Streaming Ingest
- Advanced cluster management
Enterprise
$0.75 per credit
- Advanced autoscaling features
- Fine-grained access controls (ABAC, SCIM)
- AWS PrivateLink for data sources
- Early access to features (Private Preview)
- AIDA (token usage billed separately)
Mission-Critical
$1 per credit
- Elite support and ticketing
- Advanced governance integrations
- Lakehouse security and compliance tools
- Highest uptime guarantees
- AIDA (token usage billed separately)
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Free | Pro | Enterprise | Mission-Critical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clusters | Up to 3 | not listed | not listed | not listed |
| Cluster execution modes | Standard | Flexible | not listed | not listed |
| Streaming ingest | not listed | ✓ | not listed | not listed |
| Advanced cluster management | not listed | ✓ | not listed | not listed |
| Advanced autoscaling | not listed | not listed | ✓ | not listed |
| Fine-grained access controls (ABAC, SCIM) | not listed | not listed | ✓ | not listed |
| AWS PrivateLink for data sources | not listed | not listed | ✓ | not listed |
| Early access to features (Private Preview) | not listed | not listed | ✓ | not listed |
| Elite support and ticketing | not listed | not listed | not listed | ✓ |
| Advanced governance integrations | not listed | not listed | not listed | ✓ |
| Lakehouse security and compliance tools | not listed | not listed | not listed | ✓ |
| Highest uptime guarantees | not listed | not listed | not listed | ✓ |
| AIDA | not listed | not listed | token usage billed separately | token usage billed separately |
List prices as published on www.starburst.io/pricing/. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.