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Exasol Pricing, Plans, and Availability

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by Exasol · exasol.com ↗

High-performance in-memory analytics database and data warehouse platform.

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Pricing at a glance

Exasol’s public pricing is built around a simple message: start free, then choose a managed SaaS option or speak with sales for enterprise deployment. The company publicly lists a free personal tier, a 30-day trial with $200 of free usage and no credit card required, and a set of hourly SaaS cluster sizes that scale from XS through 3XL. That makes the platform relatively transparent for getting started, but not fully self-serve for every production scenario. The biggest pricing variable after the hourly compute charge is usage-based extras such as storage and data transfer, which means total cost depends on how much data you keep and where it moves. For larger organizations, Exasol also frames enterprise and pre-purchase options as sales-led, so buyers should expect custom terms when they move beyond the public SaaS catalog.

◇ Pricing model

Mixed model: free personal use, pay-as-you-go SaaS pricing, pre-purchase pricing via sales, and quote-based enterprise licensing.

↻ Billing notes

Exasol publicly describes its SaaS offering as pay-as-you-go, with an option to get pre-purchase pricing via the sales team as you scale. The free trial is explicitly stated as $200 of free usage for 30 days and no credit card is required. The SaaS feature list says billing can be PAYG or pre-purchase, and the product pages position Exasol Enterprise as a contact-sales motion rather than a fully disclosed public price list. The public pricing page does not specify seat minimums.

Plans and pricing

9 tiers

Exasol Personal Free

Not publicly disclosed
Free
  • For personal use
  • Try for free

Public page does not disclose seat minimums, storage limits, or usage caps for the personal tier.

Exasol SaaS XS

Hourly
$3.3/hr
  • 8 vCPUs
  • 64GB memory

Additional costs apply for storage and some data transfer; plan-specific database-count limits are not publicly disclosed beyond the SaaS feature list.

Exasol SaaS S

Hourly
$6.6/hr
  • 16 vCPUs
  • 128GB memory

Additional costs apply for storage and some data transfer; plan-specific database-count limits are not publicly disclosed beyond the SaaS feature list.

Exasol SaaS M

Hourly
$13.2/hr
  • 32 vCPUs
  • 256GB memory

Additional costs apply for storage and some data transfer; plan-specific database-count limits are not publicly disclosed beyond the SaaS feature list.

Exasol SaaS L

Hourly
$26.4/hr
  • 64 vCPUs
  • 512GB memory

Additional costs apply for storage and some data transfer; plan-specific database-count limits are not publicly disclosed beyond the SaaS feature list.

Exasol SaaS XL

Hourly
$52.8/hr
  • 128 vCPUs
  • 1024GB memory

Additional costs apply for storage and some data transfer; plan-specific database-count limits are not publicly disclosed beyond the SaaS feature list.

Exasol SaaS 2XL

Hourly
$105.6/hr
  • 256 vCPUs
  • 2048GB memory

Additional costs apply for storage and some data transfer; plan-specific database-count limits are not publicly disclosed beyond the SaaS feature list.

Exasol SaaS 3XL

Hourly
$158.4/hr
  • 384 vCPUs
  • 3072GB memory

Additional costs apply for storage and some data transfer; plan-specific database-count limits are not publicly disclosed beyond the SaaS feature list.

Exasol Enterprise

Not publicly disclosed
Not publicly disclosed
  • Productionize successful analytics and AI applications
  • Share data products and workloads across the enterprise
  • Scale with governance, control, and predictable costs

Pricing is not shown publicly on the main product pages and appears to be handled through sales/contact.

Add-ons and extras

Storage

$25/TB/month

Additional storage is listed as a separate SaaS cost.

Data Transfer — AWS Same Region

$0

Same-region AWS data transfer is listed as free.

Data Transfer — AWS Different Region

$25/TB

Cross-region AWS data transfer is listed as a separate usage charge.

Data Transfer — Out of AWS

$90/TB

Data transfer outside AWS is listed as a separate usage charge.

Hidden and indirect costs

Worth budgeting for
⚠  Exasol’s SaaS page shows that the advertised hourly cluster price is not the whole bill. Storage is billed separately at $25/TB/month, and data transfer can also add charges depending on where traffic moves. Buyers should expect total spend to vary with data footprint and network movement, even before considering any pre-purchase or enterprise terms that are negotiated off-page.
⚠  The public SaaS page also indicates that private connectivity is available only "on request," which suggests some deployment or networking needs may be handled as negotiated items rather than standard self-serve pricing. Enterprise licensing is not publicly itemized, so organizations that need production contracts, larger commitments, or specialized deployment arrangements should expect a quote-based process.

What buyers actually pay

A small team wants to evaluate Exasol before buying.

Expected cost$0 upfront for a 30-day trial, with $200 of free usage included.
Trial durationIncluded free usage

A team runs a small always-on SaaS cluster.

Expected costAt least $3.3 per hour for an XS cluster, plus storage and any applicable data transfer charges.
Cluster sizeStorage volumeNetwork egress or cross-region transfer

An organization needs a larger production cluster for heavier workloads.

Expected costAt least $158.4 per hour for a 3XL cluster, plus storage and data-transfer add-ons.
Cluster sizeStorage volumeData transferPotential private connectivity or negotiated enterprise terms

A company wants an enterprise contract rather than published self-serve pricing.

Expected costNot publicly disclosed; pricing appears to require a sales conversation.
Contract scopeDeployment modelSupport and governance requirements

Pricing FAQ

No. The public pages show a self-serve SaaS price card and a free personal tier, but enterprise pricing is not itemized publicly. The product pages direct buyers to contact sales or explore the enterprise offering instead. If you need a production contract, the safest public answer is that enterprise pricing is not publicly disclosed.

Yes. Exasol states, "*$200 of free usage, trial duration 30 days. No credit card required." That makes the trial both time-limited and usage-limited. If you exceed the included usage, the public page does not spell out trial overage handling in more detail.

The public SaaS page lists separate charges for storage and data transfer. Storage is shown as $25/TB/month, and transfer charges vary by route, including $0 for AWS same-region traffic, $25/TB for AWS different-region traffic, and $90/TB out of AWS. That means a quoted hourly cluster price is only part of the total cost.

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