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Vertica Pricing, Plans, and Availability

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Pricing at a glance

◇ Pricing model

Freemium plus quote-based enterprise licensing with usage-based and capacity-based options; some public third-party listings mention a free Community Edition and hourly/TB-based editions, while official sales guidance says to contact an account manager for details.

↻ Billing notes

Publicly available information shows Vertica uses more than one billing structure. The official forum says Vertica has two pricing models: by raw data size (per TB) and by physical nodes, and it also notes additional cloud-oriented SKUs such as pay-by-hour. The same forum says Eon mode and Enterprise mode use the same Vertica pricing, and it advises customers to speak with an account manager for more details. The supplied sources do not show a public trial length, public discount schedule, seat minimum, or renewal policy.

Plans and pricing

5 tiers

Community Edition

Free
$0
  • Community access

Publicly listed on G2 as a free edition; no further public limits are disclosed in the supplied sources.

Vertica by the hour

Hourly
$/HR

Public third-party pricing references list an hourly edition, but the supplied sources do not disclose the actual hourly amount or feature bundle.

tica in the Clouds

Usage-based
$/TB

Public third-party pricing references list a per-terabyte edition, but the supplied sources do not disclose the actual amount or included limits.

Enterprise / by physical nodes

Not publicly disclosed
Not publicly disclosed
  • Unlimited amounts of data on purchased nodes

The forum states that when you buy a per-node license, you pay for the nodes and can run Vertica on them with unlimited amounts of data, while compute is limited to the nodes you bought.

By raw data size (per TB)

Not publicly disclosed
Not publicly disclosed
  • Capacity licensed by raw data size

The forum says this model limits you to a specific number of raw TBs, while you can use as many nodes as needed and additional physical nodes are a separate cost outside Vertica.

Add-ons and extras

Additional SKUs for licensing

Not publicly disclosed

The official forum says Vertica has introduced additional SKUs for licensing, including pay-by-hour options, to take advantage of cloud economics.

Additional physical nodes

Separate cost outside of Vertica

For capacity-based licensing, the forum says adding physical nodes is a separate cost outside of Vertica.

Hidden and indirect costs

Worth budgeting for
⚠  The supplied sources indicate that some costs are not bundled into the base Vertica license. In the raw-TB model, additional physical nodes are a separate cost outside Vertica, which means infrastructure expansion can increase total spend even when the software license itself is unchanged. The forum also advises customers to contact an account manager because details of each specific case need to be considered, which suggests negotiated pricing and configuration-dependent costs.
⚠  Third-party pricing pages do not provide full commercial details for every edition. G2 lists placeholder-style price labels for hourly and TB-based editions without disclosing the actual amounts, and TrustRadius says no pricing plans are currently listed. That means buyers may need to go through sales to learn the real contract price, even when a tier name is publicly visible.

What buyers actually pay

A buyer wants to try Vertica without upfront license spend.

Expected cost$0 for the Community Edition, based on the public third-party pricing listing.
Community Edition availabilityNo public paid-license commitment shown in the supplied sources

A team wants cloud-style usage pricing for a smaller or variable workload.

Expected costNot publicly disclosed for the hourly tier.
Hourly usage volumeContract terms not publicly disclosed

An enterprise needs unlimited data on a fixed set of servers.

Expected costNot publicly disclosed for the per-node license.
Number of physical nodes purchasedCompute limited to the bought nodes

A data warehouse team expects to scale storage by raw terabytes instead of nodes.

Expected costNot publicly disclosed for the per-TB model.
Raw TB capacity purchasedSeparate infrastructure costs for extra physical nodes

Pricing FAQ

Not in the supplied official sources. The Vertica forum explains the pricing frameworks and directs buyers to contact an account manager for more details, which indicates that most commercial pricing is quote-based. Third-party pricing pages confirm that some editions are visible publicly, but they do not provide complete amounts for every tier.

The official forum says Vertica has two pricing models: by raw data size, also called per TB, and by physical nodes. It also says Vertica has introduced additional SKUs for licensing like pay by hour. That means buyers may see both capacity-based and usage-based commercial options depending on how they deploy.

According to Vertica's forum response, Eon mode and Enterprise mode are just modes within Vertica and the pricing applies the same to any mode of Vertica. The same post says the license can be used for running the database in either Enterprise or Eon mode. For exact commercial terms, Vertica still recommends speaking to an account manager.

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