# MotherDuck

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/data-warehouse/motherduck/

A managed DuckDB warehouse priced per organisation rather than per query, aimed at analytics that fit on one machine.

## Who it suits

Analytics that fit on one machine, priced per organisation rather than per query: $250 a month flat plus usage, so adding a query, a gigabyte or an hour does not move the floor. A 99.9% SLA comes with it.

Consider something else if You have more than ten people or need an SLA cheaply. Business caps internal active users at ten, and both the SLA and custom roles arrive only at $250 — the free Lite plan allows three users and publishes no availability commitment.

## iScore

85 / 100 (80% interval 81–90), rank 4 of 4 in data-warehouse.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every data-warehouse peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/data-warehouse/motherduck/alternatives/

- Price: 82 (76–88), weight 71%, 2 of 3 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: free_offer_type
- Evidence: 93 (93–93), weight 29%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://motherduck.com/product/pricing/), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: Up to 3 internal active users and 2 service accounts, 10 GB of storage and 10 hours of Pulse compute a month, with community support and preset role-based access control. A standing plan rather than a trial. ([source](https://motherduck.com/product/pricing/), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $250 per organisation per month, plus usage. Priced on the organisation rather than on data or time — the only member here where adding a query, a gigabyte or an hour does not change the floor. ([source](https://motherduck.com/product/pricing/), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Per organisation per month plus usage, with seats rather than scans as the limiting dimension: up to 10 internal active users on Business against 3 on Lite, and unlimited service accounts. Five instance types and read-scaling replicas sit above that. ([source](https://motherduck.com/product/pricing/), read 2026-09-15)

### Infrastructure

- Uptime SLA: 99.9% availability on the Business plan. Nothing is published for Lite, so the SLA arrives with the $250 fee rather than with the product. ([source](https://motherduck.com/product/pricing/), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [MotherDuck vs Google BigQuery](https://inetgeek.com/compare/bigquery-vs-motherduck/)
- [MotherDuck vs Amazon Redshift](https://inetgeek.com/compare/aws-redshift-vs-motherduck/)
- [MotherDuck vs ClickHouse Cloud](https://inetgeek.com/compare/clickhouse-cloud-vs-motherduck/)