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

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Lite). Among the 3 data warehouse we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** motherduck.com
**Free tier:** Yes · 7-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** DuckDB (embedded), dbt, Fivetran, Airbyte, Apache Airflow, Dagster, Tableau, Apache Superset, Hex, Power BI
**Best for:** Small-to-mid data teams wanting the simplicity and speed of DuckDB at cloud scale; Individual analysts and solo practitioners (free Lite plan, no credit card required); HIPAA-regulated teams needing a lightweight managed warehouse (BAA on Business/Enterprise); Application developers embedding analytics that require per-user cost attribution
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lite | $0 | — | flat | Free tier. Includes 10 GB storage and 10 hours of Pulse compute monthly at no cost. For solo practitioners and hobbyists. No HIPAA BAA on Lite. | motherduck.com |
| Business | $250 | — | flat | $250/month per organization platform fee plus usage. Compute billed per second: Pulse $0.60/hr, Standard $2.40/hr, Jumbo $4.80/hr, Mega $12.00/hr, Giga $36.00/hr. Storage $0.04/GB-month. HIPAA BAA available on request. SOC 2 Type II certified. | motherduck.com |
| Enterprise | Quote-only | — | custom | Quote-only. Custom pricing for large-scale deployments. HIPAA BAA included. | motherduck.com |

**Key features:** Managed DuckDB in the cloud: hypertenancy gives each user a dedicated compute instance, eliminating resource contention; User-level CPU visibility and cost attribution — track and optimize spend per individual user; Flights: agent-native data pipelines integrated directly into the warehouse; Hybrid local+cloud query execution: combine local DuckDB with MotherDuck cloud seamlessly; Read-scaling replicas and 5 instance types (Pulse to Giga) with per-second billing.

**Plan limits:** Lite (free): 3 internal active users, 2 service accounts, 10 GB storage, 10 hrs Pulse compute/month, 1-day snapshot retention, community support only; Business: up to 10 internal users, unlimited service accounts, 90-day snapshot retention, 99.9% SLA; HIPAA BAA: available on request for Business plan; included on Enterprise plan; Business plan 7-day free trial with full feature access.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official pricing page motherduck.com/pricing/ fetched successfully (two independent fetches with consistent data). HIPAA BAA 'available on request' for Business plan confirmed directly from the pricing page.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/data-warehouse/motherduck/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, MotherDuck's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/data-warehouse/motherduck/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl