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MotherDuck pricing (2026)
MotherDuck's paid plans start at $250/mo (Business) as checked on 2026-11-01, read from MotherDuck's own pricing page; 3 plans. Best for Small-to-mid data teams wanting the simplicity and speed of DuckDB at cloud scale. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $250/mo (Business)
- Free tier: Yes · 7-day trial
- Compliance: HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
- 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
As of · every figure below links to its source
MotherDuck plans & pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
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| Lite | $0 | — | Flat monthly | 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 monthly | $250/month per organization platform fee plus usage. Compute billed per second: Pulse $0.73 per CU hour, Standard $2.93/hr, Jumbo $5.86/hr, Mega $14.65/hr, Giga $29.30/hr. Storage $0.043/GB-month. HIPAA BAA available on request. SOC 2 Type II certified. | motherduck.com |
| Enterprise | quote-only | — | Custom / quote | Quote-only. Custom pricing for large-scale deployments. HIPAA BAA included. | motherduck.com |
Last verified 2026-11-01. 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.
Price changes
Price on record
$250/moFirst on record 2026-06-27
A new dated entry is stamped here each time the price moves — the record builds itself.
Tracked since June 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Corrections to this record
Changes we made to our own record of MotherDuck, newest first: a figure read again on the vendor's page, a plan it no longer lists, a note. None of them is a price change by MotherDuck. Every correction on the site is in the corrections log.
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Business. Re-read 2026-11-01: the price stands at $250. The note said Pulse $0.60 and Standard $2.40 an hour; the page now reads "Pulse $0.73 per CU hour" and "Standard $2.93 per hour".
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Source replaced, price unchanged. https://motherduck.com/pricing/ answers 301 and lands on https://motherduck.com/product/pricing/ — the same page at the address the site now uses. The figure is unchanged and still stands on the day it was read; only the link the reader follows is corrected, so it no longer bounces through a redirect. Same host, same scheme, and the destination keeps every distinguishing word of the page's own name.
Capabilities
Integrations: DuckDB (embedded), dbt, Fivetran, Airbyte, Apache Airflow, Dagster, Tableau, Apache Superset, Hex, Power BI.
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.
Frequently asked questions
How much does MotherDuck cost?
MotherDuck's paid plans start at $250/mo (Business), and it lists a $0 plan (Lite); it has 3 published plans. Verified 2026-11-01.
Does MotherDuck support HIPAA?
Yes — MotherDuck states HIPAA support on its public pages. Its public pages also state SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.
Does MotherDuck have a free plan?
Yes — MotherDuck publishes a free tier; it offers a 7-day free trial.
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