Spice AI Pricing - vCPU-Based Plans for Every Deployment | Spice AI
Flexible and scalable pricing for every deployment
Run Spice where and how your application demands: open-source, self-hosted, on-prem, at the edge, or fully managed on the Spice Cloud Platform. Start free and scale when you need to.
Open Source
Free under Apache 2.0 with community-only support
Cloud
Subscription and usage-based pricing with tiered plans
Enterprise
Enterprise licensing with 24/7 support and SLAs
Contact us for tailored pricing
Optimized For
- Community
- Managed Workloads
- Self-Hosted Workloads
Scale
- Single-node engine
- Multi-node with clustering and high-availability
- Multi-node with clustering and high-availability
Control Plane
- Static, configuration-driven only (YAML)
- Dynamic, remote (Portal/API-managed)
- Dynamic, remote/local (API/YAML)
Remote control in preview
Commercial License
- Apache 2.0
Consumption-based TOS
Enterprise Software License
Code / Security Audited
- No
- Yes
- Yes
Security Updates
- Latest minus-one release (6-8 weeks)
- Rolling updates with automated patches
- Tiered support up to 3 years with guaranteed patches
SLA
- N/A
- 99.9% uptime with proactive failover
- 99.9% uptime with 24/7 on-call
Support
- Community (GitHub Issues, Community Slack)
- Standard support (email, Slack Connect)
- Premium 24/7 support with dedicated account team (Slack Connect)
Distribution
- Docker images and GitHub release binaries
- Enterprise image via AWS Marketplace SaaS
- Enterprise image via AWS Marketplace ECR & AMI
Hosting
- Self-Hosted
- Fully-managed, cloud-hosted; dedicated deployments (AWS)
- Self-hosted BYOL; Kubernetes, AWS AMI
Monitoring & Observability
- DIY via OpenTelemetry (e.g. Grafana)
- Built-in dashboards with real-time monitoring
- BYO (Datadog, New Relic, etc.) or Spice Cloud Connect
Compliance
- N/A
- SOC 2 Type II audited security & privacy controls
- SOC 2 Type II audited security & privacy controls
One engine, nearly unlimited deployment options
Spice is an open-source data and AI runtime that works the same everywhere - locally, on-prem, hybrid, or cloud. Build once, deploy anywhere, and scale without lock-in.
Unified data and AI engine
Federate data, accelerate queries, perform hybrid search, and run AI models all from one portable runtime that can be deployed locally, on-prem, at the edge, or in the cloud.
Built on open-source
Leverage modern open-source technologies, including Arrow, DataFusion, DuckDB, SQLite, Iceberg, and more in one engine.
Designed for performance and scale
Spice's architecture is optimized for low-latency data access. Deploy with single-node or distributed multi-node query execution.
Deployed in production
Teams trust Spice to bring inference closer to their data, enabling low-latency, enterprise-grade AI across industries.
“Spice opened the door to take these critical control-plane datasets and move them next to our services in the runtime path.”
Peter Janovsky
Software Architect, Twilio
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Faster queries
“It just spins up and works, which is really nice. The responsiveness is amazing, which is a huge gain for the customer.”
Darin Douglass
Principal Software Engineer, Barracuda
“What I like the most about Spice is that it's very easy to collect data from different data sources, and I'm able to interact with this data and do everything in one place.”
Dustin Warner
Director of Software Engineering, NRC Health
FAQs
How pricing works in Spice for open-source, enterprise, and cloud deployments.
Is Spice available on AWS Marketplace?
Yes. Spice.ai Enterprise is available on AWS Marketplace, allowing teams to purchase and deploy Spice through their existing AWS billing and procurement workflows. This includes support for Private Offers, consolidated billing, and fast onboarding. Visit the AWS Marketplace listing here.
Is on-prem supported?
Yes. Spice is portable and can run on-prem in Kubernetes, VMs, or bare metal. Enterprises can also use private cloud deployments or hybrid models where acceleration and model serving run close to the application while governance is centralized.
How is Spice Cloud Enterprise different from the other offerings?
Enterprise Cloud provides a dedicated, multi-region, high-availability cluster with significantly higher compute, storage, and concurrency limits, as well as enterprise-grade features. Unlike the Developer and Pro tiers, Enterprise includes custom vCPU/memory configurations, persistent object storage, JDBC/ODBC support, 1024+ concurrent queries, commercial licensing and resale rights, and Premium 24/7 on-call support with a 99.9% SLA.