Pricing snapshot
The self-hosted Bruin CLI is free. Bruin Cloud bills usage in credits: $0.01 each on Team, with no seats and no minimum, and less on the custom-priced Scale plan. Team accounts start with $100 in credits and 50 AI tasks, without a credit card; usage beyond them is billed at $0.01 per credit.
Choose by how you want to run it
Open Source if you will run pipelines yourself, locally or in your own CI, and handle scheduling. The CLI runs anywhere a binary runs, including on-prem and air-gapped environments.
Team if you want Bruin to run and schedule pipelines and you want the catalog, visual lineage and AI analyst, priced by usage rather than by user.
Scale if you need SSO and SAML, your own cloud with data residency and private networking, your own LLM credentials, dedicated support with an SLA, or lower credit prices in return for a commitment.
Plans and what they include
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| Plan | Price | Billing terms | What the plan lists |
|---|---|---|---|
Open Source | $0, forever | Self-hosted. Compute is yours to run; scheduling is self-managed. | SQL and Python transformation engine, connectors, data quality checks and lineage, Dashboards as Code, community support. |
Team | $0.01 per credit | Pay-as-you-go, no seats, no minimum. Starts with $100 in credits (10,000 credits) and 50 AI tasks, no credit card. | Unlimited pipelines, assets and members; managed scheduling on any cron schedule; AI data analyst, AI dashboards, data apps, scheduled agents and self-healing pipelines; standard support; 30-day AI conversation and query retention. |
Scale | Custom | Committed credits with volume discounts; each credit costs less. The plan card lists custom contracts and annual commitment. | SSO and SAML, BYO LLM credentials, BYOC with data residency and private networking, Cost Explorer, dedicated support with SLA, custom data and log retention. |
How credits are spent
A credit is the single usage unit on Bruin Cloud. You spend credits on compute and on AI tasks. Compute is billed per second for the time each asset runs, at a rate set by its instance size, so idle time is not billed. SQL assets run on the smallest size.
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| What uses credits | How it is billed | Credits | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
SQL asset | Per second, while it runs | 250 per hour | $2.50 per hour |
Python asset | Per second, on the size you pick | From 250 per hour | From $2.50 per hour |
Ingestion asset | Per second, on the size you pick | From 250 per hour | From $2.50 per hour |
AI task | Per task, by complexity; first 50 free | 100 to 300 | $1 to $3 |
Show full plan details
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| Size | Credits | Price |
|---|---|---|
256 MB (default) | 250 per hour | $2.50 per hour |
1 GB | 1,000 per hour | $10 per hour |
2 GB | 2,000 per hour | $20 per hour |
4 GB | 4,000 per hour | $40 per hour |
6 GB | 6,000 per hour | $60 per hour |
8 GB | 8,000 per hour | $80 per hour |
12 GB | 12,000 per hour | $120 per hour |
16 GB | 16,000 per hour | $160 per hour |
- Vendor source · Observed · Stored official pricing capture for bruin.
Bruin's own examples
A 1-minute SQL run is about 4 credits ($0.04).
The starting $100 in credits and 50 AI tasks cover 40 hours of SQL or ingestion at the default size, or 10 hours of Python on 1 GB, plus the 50 AI tasks. The run hours share the 10,000 credits in any mix.
What drives the bill
Three things set a Team bill: how long each asset runs, the instance size chosen for each Python or ingestion asset, and how many AI tasks people ask for and how complex they are. With no seats, adding users does not change the rate.
Costs to watch
No hard cap. When the starting credits run out, nothing stops; runs continue at $0.01 per credit. Team lists a risk report and usage tracking, but Cost Explorer is listed only on Scale.
AI task cost varies. After the first 50, each request to the AI data analyst costs 100 to 300 credits depending on complexity, in any of its channels, including Slack and email.
Scale commitment terms are unclear. The Scale card lists custom contracts and annual commitment, while the plan comparison shows no minimum spend or commitment for any plan and the FAQ calls committed Scale plans optional. Confirm the terms with Bruin before signing.
Self-hosting moves the work. The plan comparison lists Open Source compute as self-hosted and scheduling as self-managed, so you provide both.
Our take
If your team can run and schedule the CLI itself, Open Source has no fee. Move to Team when you want Bruin to run the pipelines or you want the AI analyst, and choose instance sizes and AI use with care, since they set the bill. Pick Scale only for SSO, your own cloud or committed-credit discounts, and get its commitment terms in writing.