Datafold pricing guide details
Pricing Overview
Datafold's enterprise FAQ bases custom pricing on users and monitored or tested tables. It also publishes specific developer contracts on AWS Marketplace.
Plan Comparison
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| AWS Marketplace contract | Price / 12 months |
|---|---|
| 5 provisioned developers | $15,000 |
| 10 provisioned developers | $30,000 |
The 10-developer row lists $0.01/user/hour overage; the 5-developer row lists no overage rate. Confirm extra-usage terms rather than assuming unlimited use. Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. These are specific contracts, not a universal platform minimum or a guarantee that every module is included.
Choose a deployment model
The current security addendum distinguishes three models:
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| Model | Infrastructure | Application operations |
|---|---|---|
| Shared SaaS | Datafold | Datafold |
| Dedicated, Datafold-hosted | Datafold | Datafold |
| Customer-hosted | Customer | Datafold |
Customer-hosted does not mean your team runs the application. Price your infrastructure responsibilities alongside the subscription. Confirm deployment, included capabilities, support and implementation in the order form.
Free trials are available only on SaaS; the security addendum excludes free trials from its scope. Confirm evaluation terms before providing data.
Migration conversion and validation, and column-level lineage, can be purchased separately. Do not assume a fixed-price migration add-on is included in either developer contract.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
Compare the subscription quote with infrastructure and operating work for the chosen deployment. Ask whether support, implementation and onboarding are included, and request renewal and multi-year terms in writing. We have no verified standard support markup or multi-year discount. Include internal work to configure CI/CD integrations and data source connections.
How Datafold Pricing Compares
Datafold occupies a competitive position in the data quality and testing space. Here is how it stacks up against alternatives we track:
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| Tool | Pricing Model | Starting Price | Typical Mid-Market Annual Cost | Key Differentiator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datafold | Marketplace developer contracts; custom quotes | $15,000 / 12 months for 5 provisioned developers; package-specific | No verified typical spend | Data diffs, migration agent, CI/CD testing |
| Monte Carlo | Request a scoped quote | Request a scoped quote | No verified typical spend | Automated data observability, incident detection |
| Secoda | Quote-based | Quote only | — | Data catalog and documentation focus |
| Alation | Enterprise contracts | Quoted; no public rate | Quoted; no public rate | Enterprise data catalog and governance |
| Snowplow | Usage-based | Quote only | — | Behavioral data pipeline, not data quality |
Compare Datafold with Monte Carlo when evaluating testing and observability, and with Alation or Secoda when cataloging is part of the requirement. Snowplow addresses event collection and may belong to a different buying decision. Ask for equivalent scope before comparing quotes; unpublished amounts do not establish a price ranking or overlapping price ranges.