spice.ai/pricingstorage/spice-ai-see-candidate-entryJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- The free tier is an Apache-2.0 runtime you host yourself.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price 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 | The free tier is an Apache-2.0 runtime you host yourself. There are no free hosted bytes; the 'free datasets' are Spice's own samples, read-only. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 1
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "paid","why": "The free tier is an Apache-2.0 runtime you host yourself. There are no free hosted bytes; the 'free datasets' are Spice's own samples, read-only.","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
spice.ai/pricingData platformstorage/spice-ai-cloudJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- No storage quota published, because the product is not storage.
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict fails-quota: the free allowance is too small to matter. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No storage quota published, because the product is not storage. The free Community edition is the self-hosted OSS runtime under Apache 2.0 with community-only support; the hosted Cloud tier is 'subscription and usage-based pricing with tiered plans'. The datasets it serves are 'free, ready-to-query sample datasets' hosted by Spice, not by you. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email email |
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| Egress | Usage-based on Cloud; unmetered only if you self-host and pay your own egress. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest rest |
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| Tooling | A SQL query endpoint over the Spice runtime, and a Data Connector model that federates to external sources. Self-hosting gives full control but on your own hardware. |
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| Composes with | None for capacity — the free tier is software, so the bytes land wherever you point it (S3, GCS, local). It is a query layer, and a useful one, but it multiplies nothing. |
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| Reliability | Not a storage provider. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | spice.ai/pricing | opened: 'Free under Apache 2.0 with community-only support' (OSS) / 'Subscription and usage-based pricing with tiered plans' (Cloud) / Enterprise licensing; 'Single-node engine' for Community vs 'Multi-node with clustering' for Cloud. |
| 2026-10-21 | spiceai.org/docs/getting-started/spiceai | surfaced: 'The Spice.ai Cloud Platform includes a comprehensive set of free, ready-to-query sample datasets' — read-only samples, not user hosting. |
| 2026-10-21 | spice.ai/docs/faq | surfaced: 'Spice.ai OSS — the open-source Spice runtime. Self-hosted, free, Apache 2.0.' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "not-storage","why": "No storage quota published, because the product is not storage. The free Community edition is the self-hosted OSS runtime under Apache 2.0 with community-only support; the hosted Cloud tier is 'subscription and usage-based pricing with tiered plans'. The datasets it serves are 'free, ready-to-query sample datasets' hosted by Spice, not by you.","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