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DremioThe Agentic Lakehouse: Built for Agents, Managed by Agents
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TrinoDistributed SQL query engine for big data
Comparison · Data Warehouse · weekly run Nov 3

Dremio vs Trino

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Trino is the stronger AI pick in Data Warehouse: it has a visibility score of 2 versus 0.6 for Dremio.

Choose Dremio if…

  • AI answers describe it more positively (50% vs 0% positive)
  • You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
  • You need SOC 2 Type 2 or ISO 27001:2013 or GDPR or CCPA coverage
  • keeps data in an open lakehouse without copying it into a proprietary warehouse

Choose Trino if…

  • You want the brand AI engines rank higher (2 vs 0.6)
  • runs standard SQL directly over raw files in object storage
  • works without provisioning a database cluster
  • usable as a SQL engine alongside DuckDB and cloud warehouses

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric Dremio Trino
Visibility score0.6%2%
Change vs last weekNewNew
Rank in Data Warehouse#27#21
Share of voice0.4%0.5%
Mentions this run23
Positive in AI answers50%0%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

0%25%50%75%100%Nov 3Dremio 1%

Dremio 0pp · Trino 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Trino leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT
0.9%
2.6%
AI Mode
0%
0.9%
Perplexity
0.9%
2.6%
DremioTrino

Head to head in AI answers

0 engine answers name both brands

0Dremio ranked higher
0Trino ranked higher

Features, pricing & fit

DimensionDremioTrino
Pricing modelUsage-based—
Entry price$0.2 / mo—
Free planNo · 30-day trial—
DeploymentFully managed cloud service (Dremio Cloud) or self-managed software on Kubernetes, on-premises or in AWS, Azure or GCP (Dremio Enterprise).Optimized for both on-premise and cloud environments such as Amazon, Azure and Google Cloud.
ComplianceSOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2013, GDPR, CCPA—
SupportEnterprise-grade support plans, Security documentation and Trust Center, Hands-on workshopsCommunity chat on Slack, Project blog
Founded20152019
Employees—11–50
FundingSeries E—
Best forTeams wanting a zero-maintenance, cloud-native experience and fast time to value (Dremio Cloud); organizations needing full control, on-prem requirements, or strict compliance constraints (Dremio Enterprise).Analysts and data teams that need interactive, batch and federated SQL queries across data lakes and databases.

Plans side by side

Dremio

Dremio Cloud$0.2DCU (Dremio Compute Unit)
Dremio EnterpriseCustomcontact sales
Dremio pricing

Trino

Pricing not available.

Pros and cons

Themes from the AI answers that mention each brand

Dremio

  • keeps data in an open lakehouse without copying it into a proprietary warehouse

    Trino

    • runs standard SQL directly over raw files in object storage
    • works without provisioning a database cluster
    • usable as a SQL engine alongside DuckDB and cloud warehouses
    • lacks native distributed execution architecture like Spark

    Data collected ·ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode·coverage 100%·next run

    Cite as: SlateIndex, “Dremio vs Trino”, https://slateindex.ai/compare/dremio-vs-trino, data of Nov 3, 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.