# 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

[Free!](https://spiceai.org/docs/getting-started)

##### Cloud

Subscription and usage-based pricing with tiered plans

[See plans here](/content/pricing/cloud/index.html)

##### Enterprise

Enterprise licensing with 24/7 support and SLAs

[Contact us for tailored pricing](/content/contact/index.html)

**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.

[Learn more](https://spiceai.org/docs/deployment)

#### Built on open-source

Leverage modern open-source technologies, including Arrow, DataFusion, DuckDB, SQLite, Iceberg, and more in one engine.

[Learn more](https://spiceai.org/docs)

#### 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.

[Learn more](https://spiceai.org/docs/features/data-acceleration)

### 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](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=seller-zrdzyyqfdudxc), 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.