Independent · sourced · Updated November 2026
Best Data Warehouse (2026)
8 data warehouse options compared on price, free tier, compliance and fit — ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it; where a vendor publishes no monthly price we name the kind of pricing it uses, never a guess.
The cheapest data warehouse is Firebolt at $0/mo. 5 offer a free tier. All 8 compared below on price, free tier and compliance — every figure sourced and dated, updated November 2026.
As of Nov 1, 2026 · figures linked to their source in the table below
Key takeaways
- Free tier: Firebolt, MotherDuck, Starburst, Databricks, Google BigQuery.
- States HIPAA support: Firebolt, MotherDuck, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Snowflake.
- Tracked: 8 vendors, data current through 2026-11-01. STALE · 2026-06-14
Comparison
| # | Data Warehouse | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source | Visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Firebolt STALE · 2026-06-14 | $0/mo Firebolt Core | Yes | Yes | Yes | Product teams embedding analytics in high-concurrency customer-facing applications | firebolt.io | Visit → |
| 2 | MotherDuck | $0/mo Lite | Yes | Yes | Yes | Small-to-mid data teams wanting the simplicity and speed of DuckDB at cloud scale | motherduck.com | Visit → |
| 3 | Starburst | $0/mo Free | Yes | — | — | Enterprises federating queries across multiple heterogeneous data sources without data movement | starburst.io | Visit → |
| 4 | Amazon Redshift STALE · 2026-09-02 | not priced monthly | No | Yes | Yes | AWS-native organizations wanting deep integration with the AWS analytics ecosystem | aws.amazon.com | Visit → |
| 5 | Azure Synapse Analytics STALE · 2026-09-02 | not priced monthly | No | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Azure shops wanting a unified SQL + Spark analytics platform | azure.microsoft.com | Visit → |
| 6 | Databricks STALE · 2026-09-02 | not priced monthly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Data engineering and ML teams that need a unified lakehouse platform | databricks.com | Visit → |
| 7 | Google BigQuery STALE · 2026-09-02 | usage-priced | Yes | Yes | Yes | Google Cloud and Google Workspace shops wanting zero-ops analytics | cloud.google.com | Visit → |
| 8 | Snowflake STALE · 2026-09-27 | not priced monthly | No | Yes | Yes | Enterprise multi-cloud analytics requiring unified governance | snowflake.com | Visit → |
Prices are the lowest published self-serve rate, with the period it is charged on, as captured on the linked source. Annual-billing and usage details are on each vendor's record in our open dataset.
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What is the cheapest data warehouse?
Firebolt has the lowest published entry price at $0/mo (Firebolt Core), as of 2026-06-15.
Which data warehouse have a free plan?
Firebolt, MotherDuck, Starburst, Databricks, Google BigQuery offer a free tier.
Which data warehouse support HIPAA?
Firebolt, MotherDuck, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Snowflake state HIPAA support (a BAA). Always confirm current scope with the vendor.
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