Databricks
databricks.com · 3 records in Compute, Storage · JSON
Records 3
- trialDatabricks
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- trialDatabricks Free Edition (default storage / Unity Catalog volumes)
Storagefree tieridentity institution?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotadatabricks free edition (default storage as an archive)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
Databricks
Compute- Free allowance
- 'Up to $400 in credits' on the free-trial table, with 'Full Databricks platform access for two (2) weeks used for business evaluation'.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaup to USD 400 of credits, 14 days of platform access, amount at Databricks' discretion
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | 'Up to $400 in credits' on the free-trial table, with 'Full Databricks platform access for two (2) weeks used for business evaluation'. The page adds: 'A customer's eligibility for credits under this offer, the amount of credits (if any), and when any credits expire are solely determined by Databricks following account creation.' unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
this is a ceiling, not a grant: the page states eligibility, amount and expiry are decided after account creation |
| Binding | volume-quota the credit is a discretionary ceiling with a 14-day access window, so the balance and the window end it together |
| Identity | email no credit card is required to start the trial; a work email is recommended for full trial benefits, and the Free Edition accepts a personal address |
| Egress | not stated |
| Retention | platform access for 14 days; the credit's expiry is determined by Databricks after signup, and the trial ends when the credits are exhausted (14 days) |
| Interface | cli, rest Databricks CLI, REST API, SDKs (Python, JavaScript, Java, Go), SSH tunnel and the workspace web console |
| Tooling | Databricks CLI (databricks/cli), Databricks SDKs for Python, JavaScript, Java, Go and R, Databricks Connect, the Terraform provider and SQL drivers |
| Composes with | USD 200,000 on Databricks compute is the largest credit in the data-platform group and it also funds Neon Postgres, so one approval covers both a warehouse and an app database. The chain breaks at the funding round. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The 14 days is the access window, not a stated credit expiry. No all-purpose-cluster DBU rate could be read, so the credit cannot be sized as a machine. Working against a user's own cloud account bills that cloud provider directly, outside the credit. |
| Evidence note | documented the trial page was read on 2026-10-23 and carries the amount, the two-week access window and the discretion clause; the pricing page serves its SKU tables client-side, so no DBU rate is recorded |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.databricks.com/try-databricks | quoted: 'Up to $400 in credits' and 'Full Databricks platform access for two (2) weeks used for business evaluation' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.databricks.com/try-databricks | quoted: 'No credit card is required to start your Databricks free trial.' and the discretion clause on eligibility, amount and expiry |
| 2026-10-23 | www.databricks.com/product/pricing | 200 with 413 words; every instance-type path returned 404 or an empty extraction, so no DBU rate was established |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.databricks.com/en/dev-tools/index.html | the CLI and REST API exist |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dev-tools/cli/ | the docs name the Databricks CLI as a user |
More fields 3
| facets | {"class": "startup-credit","free_tier_kind": "one-shot-credit","shape": null} |
|---|---|
| credit usd ceiling | 400 |
| access days | 14 |
Unknown values 4
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
Corrections
- 2026-10-23 Corrected on 2026-10-23: compute/databricks, compute/digitalocean, compute/linode and 6 more records
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/databricks-free-editionsays institution, storage/databricks-free-edition-2 says email - verdict:
storage/databricks-free-editionsays trial-only, storage/databricks-free-edition-2 says fails-quota
- Free allowance
- No published byte quota.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No published byte quota. Free Edition ships 'serverless compute and default storage, so you can immediately start exploring and building' — default storage is 'a fully managed object storage platform' and in serverless workspaces you can 'create additional catalogs in either default storage or in your own cloud object storage'. Quotas are documented for compute, jobs, pipelines, model serving and apps — never for bytes. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Not addressed in the Free Edition docs. Outbound internet is 'restricted to a limited set of trusted domains', which throttles external egress to non-approved hosts. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, rclone, cli rest |
| Tooling | Unity Catalog volumes via SQL (CREATE CATALOG ...) or the Databricks CLI / REST API; no rclone backend. File access requires serverless, Unity-Catalog-enabled compute — 'All interactions with default storage require serverless, Unity Catalog-enabled compute'. |
| Composes with | One workspace per signup; the docs do not cap workspaces. Storage is uncapped in the docs but only reachable through compute, so the real multiplier is compute quota resets ('your workspace's compute resources will be shut down and unavailable for the rest of the day' on quota exhaustion; data is retained). |
| Reliability | Storage without a documented quota but also without a storage-native API — you cannot PUT arbitrary bytes without spinning compute, and compute is throttled to 'the rest of the day'. Custom workspace storage locations are unsupported. Realistically a place to park tabular artefacts, not a 20 TiB blob archive. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition | 'Your new workspace includes serverless compute and default storage' |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.databricks.com/aws/en/storage/default-storage | 'Default storage is a fully managed object storage platform'; 'All interactions with default storage require serverless, Unity Catalog-enabled compute' |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limi | (last updated 2026-10-18) — quota table covers compute/jobs/pipelines/serving only; 'Custom workspace storage locations' unsupported |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limitations -> 200 (read live 2026-10-21) |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "not-storage","why": "No published byte quota. Free Edition ships 'serverless compute and default storage, so you can immediately start exploring and building' — default storage is 'a fully managed object storage platform' and in serverless workspaces you can 'create additional catalogs in either default storage or in your own cloud object storage'. Quotas are documented for compute, jobs, pipelines, model serving and apps — never for bytes.","retry_when": "never; it is not storage","first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/databricks-free-editionsays institution, storage/databricks-free-edition-2 says email - verdict:
storage/databricks-free-editionsays trial-only, storage/databricks-free-edition-2 says fails-quota
- Free allowance
- Free Edition is perpetual in the sense that it does not expire, and hitting quota does not delete data ('your data and settings will not be deleted').
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Free Edition is perpetual in the sense that it does not expire, and hitting quota does not delete data ('your data and settings will not be deleted'). But it is serverless-only with… unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limi | the text of Free tier, above |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "retention","why": "Free Edition is perpetual in the sense that it does not expire, and hitting quota does not delete data ('your data and settings will not be deleted'). But it is serverless-only with…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field