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DuckHouse

Pricing

Pay for what runs.
Nothing else.

No subscriptions, tiers or minimums. Compute is metered while a warehouse is running, storage is billed at cost, and a paused warehouse costs only what it stores.

Compute

Billed only while a warehouse is running.

Shared CPU, from
$0.0117 / hr
Dedicated CPU, from
$0.127 / hr
Paused
$0.00 / hr

Fly.io list price plus a flat 50%.

Storage

Billed for what you keep, running or paused.

Object storage
$0.02 / GB-mo
Archive storage
$0.004 / GB-mo
Local volume
$0.225 / GB-mo

Tigris object storage is passed through at cost.

Data transfer

Loading data in never costs anything.

Ingress
Free
Object storage egress
Free
Query result egress
$0.03 / GB

Most transfer goes through object storage, which is free.

Estimate

What would your workload cost?

Choose a size, then set how long it runs each day. The bars show what pausing is worth.

Engine
Warehouse size

Shared CPU

Dedicated CPU

8 hrs / day
Paused8 hrs16 hrsAlways on
100 GB
10 GB500 GB

Estimated monthly cost

$42.35/ month

Compute · 243 hrs × $0.0734
$17.85
Storage · 100 GB
$24.50
Always on$78.05
Your schedule$42.35
Paused all month$24.50

Estimate only, excluding query-result egress. Storage covers a volume sized to your data (10 GB minimum) plus its snapshot in object storage. Usage is metered in five-minute increments.

Warehouse sizes

Every size, every price.

Resize whenever the workload changes. The monthly column assumes a warehouse that never pauses, so treat it as a ceiling.

Compute pricing by warehouse size
SizeCPUMemoryPer hourAlways on, per month
shared-cpu-1x1 vCPUshared512 MB$0.0117$8.55
shared-cpu-2x2 vCPUshared1 GB$0.0323$23.55
shared-cpu-4x4 vCPUshared2 GB$0.0734$53.55
shared-cpu-8x8 vCPUshared4 GB$0.156$114
performance-1x1 vCPUdedicated2 GB$0.127$93.00
performance-2x2 vCPUdedicated4 GB$0.255$186
performance-4x4 vCPUdedicated8 GB$0.510$372
performance-8x8 vCPUdedicated16 GB$1.02$744

Billing

How billing works.

01

Metered in five-minute increments

A warehouse that runs for forty minutes is billed for forty minutes, not for the hour and not for the month.

02

Pausing stops the compute meter

Pause from the dashboard or the API. While paused you pay for storage and nothing else.

03

One invoice a month

Usage across all of your warehouses is totalled and charged to your card once a month through Stripe.

04

No plans to outgrow

There are no tiers, seats or feature gates. Every account gets every feature, and every size is a click away.

FAQ

Pricing questions.

Is there a minimum spend or a contract?
No. There is no subscription, no commitment and no minimum. If you delete your warehouses, your bill goes to zero.
What do I pay for while a warehouse is paused?
Storage only: the local volume and whatever is in your object storage bucket. The compute rate is zero until you start the warehouse again.
What is the difference between shared and dedicated CPUs?
Shared sizes burst on CPU cores shared with other machines and cost much less, which suits development and intermittent queries. Dedicated sizes reserve whole cores for consistent performance under sustained load. You can resize between them at any time.
What am I charged for storage?
It depends which engine you choose. A DuckDB warehouse keeps its database on an encrypted local volume at $0.225 per GB-month, sized when you create it, and snapshots it to your own object storage bucket at $0.02 per GB-month. A DuckLake warehouse has no volume at all: its tables are Parquet in object storage at $0.02 per GB-month, so you pay for what you store rather than for a disk you reserved.
Can I store table data straight in object storage?
Yes. Choose the DuckLake engine when you create a warehouse and its tables are Parquet in object storage, with a transactional catalog, time travel and no disk limit. The DuckDB engine keeps its database on a local volume instead, which is faster to query and fixed in size. Pick the engine at creation; it cannot be changed afterwards.
How do you arrive at these prices?
Openly. Compute is what Fly.io charges us plus a flat 50%, which pays for the control plane that provisions, monitors and backs up your warehouses. Tigris object storage is passed through at cost with no markup at all.

Launch your first warehouse.

No contracts and no minimums. Pick a size and a region, attach from your terminal, and pause it whenever you like.

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