# Databricks pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** Quote-only — no self-serve price published.
**Domain:** databricks.com
**Free tier:** Yes · 14-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog, dbt, Fivetran, Tableau, Power BI, Apache Kafka, Delta Sharing
**Best for:** Data engineering and ML teams that need a unified lakehouse platform; Organizations running Apache Spark workloads at scale; HIPAA-regulated teams requiring PHI processing on AWS (compliance security profile); Enterprises needing cross-cloud data sharing without data replication

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SQL Classic (AWS, Premium tier) | Quote-only | — | custom | ~$0.22/DBU on AWS US regions. Runs in customer cloud account. Lacks Predictive I/O. Standard tier reached end-of-life on AWS/GCP Oct 2025; Premium tier is now the baseline. Cloud instance costs billed separately by AWS. | databricks.com |
| SQL Pro (AWS, Premium tier) | Quote-only | — | custom | ~$0.55/DBU on AWS US regions. Includes Predictive I/O and Intelligent Workload Management. Runs in customer cloud account. Cloud instance costs billed separately by AWS. | databricks.com |
| SQL Serverless (AWS, Premium tier) | Quote-only | — | custom | ~$0.70/DBU in AWS US regions; ~$0.91/DBU in EU regions. Fully managed by Databricks; infrastructure cost bundled into DBU rate (no separate EC2 charges). Scale-to-zero capable. Databricks' recommended tier as of 2026. | databricks.com |

**Key features:** Delta Lake: open-source ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and time travel on data lakes; Unity Catalog: unified fine-grained governance for data, AI models, and notebooks across clouds; MLflow: integrated experiment tracking, model registry, and ML lifecycle management; Lakehouse architecture: combines data warehouse SQL analytics with data lake flexibility in one platform; Delta Sharing: open protocol for zero-copy data sharing across clouds and organizations.

**Plan limits:** Free Edition: forever free with daily compute limits, one serverless workspace, no classic compute, no GPUs, no clean rooms; Free trial: 14 days, up to $400 in credits, full platform access; Paid tiers: compute billed per DBU-second; underlying cloud instance costs billed separately (classic compute only); HIPAA requires enabling the compliance security profile (adds monitoring agents, hardened compute image).

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official pricing page databricks.com/product/pricing shows no USD figures (JS-rendered calculator only). DBU costs sourced from cloudzero.com Databricks pricing blog (last updated May 26 2026, corroborated by cloudzero.com WebSearch result from same article). HIPAA/BAA confirmed via docs.databricks.com/aws/en/security/privacy/hipaa and databricks.com/legal/baa — compliance security profile required, full enforcement from Sep 1 2026.
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