Select Star pricing guide details
Pricing Overview
Select Star publishes no prices. Its pricing page now redirects to the homepage, which says Select Star is now part of Snowflake and lists no plans, free tier or rates. Every price is therefore set in a quote.
Earlier versions of this page listed plan names, per-user prices, overage fees and cost bands for Select Star. None of those figures appear on Select Star's own site, so we removed them. If a figure for Select Star appears anywhere else, treat it as a past quote, not a list price.
What you would be buying is the product the homepage describes: an automated data catalog that indexes and documents metadata, column-level data lineage across platforms, an MCP Server for Data that gives AI agents access to metadata, lineage and semantic models, entity-relationship diagrams inferred from SQL queries and joins, and semantic model generation for tools such as Snowflake Cortex Analyst. Select Star states that it follows AICPA SOC 2 standards for security, confidentiality and availability.
Plan Comparison
There are no plans to compare. This table shows what Select Star's site publishes today.
| Pricing item | What Select Star publishes |
|---|---|
| Plans or editions | None listed |
| Free tier | None listed |
| Prices or rates | None listed |
| Pricing page | Redirects to the homepage |
| Ownership | Part of Snowflake |
| How to get a price | Ask for a quote |
Our view: a buyer cannot compare Select Star on price without a sales conversation, and the acquisition adds a second question, whether Select Star is still sold on its own or only with Snowflake. Ask both in the first call.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
With no published rates, every cost sits in the contract. Ask for these points in writing:
- Pricing basis. Whether the price scales with users, data sources, assets or something else.
- Contract length and renewal. Ownership changed, so confirm how renewals and price changes will work.
- Connectors outside Snowflake. The homepage lists one-click integrations with warehouses, ELT/ETL and BI tools. If you run BigQuery, Redshift or Databricks, confirm they stay supported.
- Implementation. Ask whether setup, onboarding or training is included or billed separately.
Cost Estimates by Team Size
We do not give dollar estimates here, because Select Star publishes no rates and any figure would be a guess. Use team size to decide what to compare instead:
- Small team (1-5 people): start with a free open-source catalog. DataHub's open-source edition is free and self-hosted (Apache-2.0), and OpenMetadata is free and open source under Apache 2.0. You pay only for the servers and the time to run them.
- Mid-size team (5-20 people): request quotes from Select Star and from Atlan, Alation or Secoda at the same time, with the same scope, so the numbers are comparable.
- Snowflake-centred teams: ask your Snowflake account team how Select Star is sold now.
How Select Star Pricing Compares
Select Star is not unusual here. Most commercial data catalogs publish no prices.
| Tool | Published pricing |
|---|---|
| Select Star | None; part of Snowflake |
| Alation | None; alation.com/pricing resolves to a contact form |
| Atlan | None; atlan.com/pricing resolves to a talk-to-sales form |
| Secoda | Core, Premium and Enterprise plans with no prices; unlimited viewers on all plans |
| DataHub | Free Professional tier (up to 20 saved searches, daily email alerts); Enterprise via sales; free open-source edition |
| OpenMetadata | Free and open source (Apache 2.0) |
For a catalog, the real choice is between a quoted commercial product and a free open-source one you operate yourself. If your need is data quality testing rather than a catalog, Soda publishes figures: a Free tier at $0 per month and a Team tier at $750 per month.