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

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Firebolt Core). Among the 3 data warehouse we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** firebolt.io
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Not published
**Integrations:** Amazon S3, Apache Kafka, dbt, Airbyte, Fivetran, Tableau, Power BI, Apache Airflow, Apache Iceberg
**Best for:** Product teams embedding analytics in high-concurrency customer-facing applications; Use cases requiring sub-second query latency at thousands of concurrent users; Organizations needing workload isolation for mixed analytics and AI applications; Teams evaluating self-hosted options before committing to cloud spend (Firebolt Core)

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Firebolt Core | $0 | — | flat | Free self-hosted deployment. Community/developer use. No SLA or support included. | firebolt.io |
| Standard (Cloud) | Quote-only | — | custom | $0.35/FBU-hour (per-second billing). Storage: $23/TiB-month. Business-hours support. No HIPAA compliance on this tier. FBU consumption = (Node FBUs) × (Runtime in seconds) ÷ 3600. | firebolt.io |
| Enterprise (Cloud) | Quote-only | — | custom | $0.35/FBU-hour (same rate as Standard). Storage: $23/TiB-month. Adds AWS PrivateLink, fast-start, multi-cluster auto-scaling, HIPAA compliance, 24/7 premium support. | firebolt.io |
| Dedicated | Quote-only | — | custom | Quote-only. Fully isolated single-tenant infrastructure. FBU-based pricing negotiated directly with Firebolt. | firebolt.io |

**Key features:** Sub-second SQL query performance for high-concurrency, customer-facing analytics workloads; Hybrid indexing with JOIN accelerators and vector search for AI-powered applications; Workload isolation: multiple independent engine clusters on the same data without duplication; ACID transactional consistency with low-latency updates and deletes at scale; Schema inference and parallel ingestion from Parquet, JSON, CSV, AVRO, ORC, and Iceberg.

**Plan limits:** Firebolt Core (free): self-hosted only, community support, no SLA; HIPAA only on Enterprise and Dedicated tiers; not available on Standard cloud tier; Standard/Enterprise cloud: $0.35/FBU-hour, $23/TiB-month storage; Compute scales 1–128 nodes, up to 10 clusters; per-second billing.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official pricing page firebolt.io/pricing fetched successfully (two fetches; consistent data). HIPAA listed as a compliance feature on Enterprise tier. BAA details not stated on pricing page; Dedicated tier directed to contact sales for compliance specifics.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/data-warehouse/firebolt/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Firebolt's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/data-warehouse/firebolt/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl