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motherduck.com · Data warehouses
SEPT 2026 audit

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

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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.
Free tierYes
CategoryData warehouses

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01.Evaluation guide

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Pricing
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Free tierYes
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What the free plan includesUp 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.
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  • MotherDuck Pricing ↗

    “Up to 3 internal active users and 2 service accounts 10 GB free storage 10 hrs Pulse compute per month included”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

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.
Sources (1) →
Pricing modelPer 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.
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  • MotherDuck Pricing ↗

    “Up to 10 internal active users and unlimited service accounts”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Infrastructure
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Uptime SLA99.9% availability on the Business plan. Nothing is published for Lite, so the SLA arrives with the $250 fee rather than with the product.
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