Data warehouse pricing, explained

Quick answer:

This page used to hold the price list for the Panoply product, a managed data warehouse that was discontinued in 2026. Panoply.io is now an independent directory of data tools, so the useful thing we can put here is what the old page never did: an honest explanation of how data warehouses and the tools around them actually charge, with real numbers.

How the 4 big warehouses bill you

Every cloud warehouse charges compute and storage on separate meters, and each vendor picked a different unit for compute. The short version:

  • Snowflake: credits per second of virtual-warehouse time. XS burns 1 credit an hour and each size up doubles it.
  • BigQuery: per terabyte scanned on demand, or per slot-hour on reservations.
  • Databricks: DBUs by workload type, plus the cloud VMs underneath.
  • Amazon Redshift: RA3 node-hours, or RPU-hours on Serverless.

The full mechanics, the hidden costs and what you can negotiate are in the 2026 warehouse pricing playbook.

What a full stack costs, by team size

All-in monthly ranges for warehouse plus ingestion plus BI, from real invoices we’ve seen. Ballparks, not quotes.

Team stageWarehouseIngestionBIAll-in
Solo, 2 to 5 people$50 to $200$0 to $500Free tier$100 to $800
5 to 20 people$300 to $2,000$500 to $2,500$0 to $500$1k to $5k
20 to 100 people$2,000 to $10,000$2,000 to $8,000$1,000 to $6,000$5k to $25k
100 and up$10,000 and up$5,000 and up$3,000 and upSix figures

Per-tool pricing pages

Each review in the directory carries a pricing breakdown verified against the vendor’s own page on a stated date. The ones with a dedicated pricing page so far:

Every other tool’s price label and model sits on its review card. Browse the directory.

Looking for the old Panoply pricing?

The product had a free 14-day trial and usage-based plans that changed several times between 2016 and 2025. None of it is purchasable any more. If you’re evaluating replacements, the closest modern equivalents are a managed warehouse (Snowflake or BigQuery) with a managed ingestion tool (Fivetran or Airbyte) on top. What Panoply was covers the history.