Pricing Overview
Trino is an open-source data warehouse query engine that offers a free and flexible pricing model. As a community-driven project, Trino's primary goal is to provide a scalable and high-performance solution for querying data across multiple sources. With its optional enterprise support, organizations can choose the level of assistance they need while still benefiting from the cost-effectiveness of an open-source tool.
The core product is available at $0 cost to users.
Plan Comparison
| Plan | Description |
|---|---|
| Free | Open-source software with no licensing fees, ideal for small teams or proof-of-concepts. |
| Enterprise Support | Optional paid support plan that includes priority access to Trino's engineering team, dedicated account management, and custom implementation services. |
Note: The free plan is suitable for small teams or projects where the primary focus is on testing and evaluating Trino.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
While Trino itself is open-source and free, there are some potential hidden costs to consider:
- Hardware and infrastructure: As a self-hosted solution, users will need to provision and maintain their own hardware and infrastructure to run Trino.
- Training and onboarding: Depending on the team's experience with distributed systems and data warehousing, additional training or consulting services may be necessary to ensure successful implementation.
- Customization and maintenance: As an open-source tool, users will need to invest time in customizing and maintaining their Trino instance, which can be resource-intensive.
Cost Estimates by Team Size
To provide a rough estimate of the monthly costs associated with using Trino, we've broken down the estimated expenses into three categories: small teams (1-5 members), medium-sized teams (6-20 members), and large enterprises (21+ members).
- Small Teams (1-5 members):
- Hardware and infrastructure: varies by usage per month
- Training and onboarding: varies by usage one-time fee
- Customization and maintenance: varies by usage per month Total estimated monthly cost: varies by usage
- Medium-Sized Teams (6-20 members):
- Hardware and infrastructure: varies by usage per month
- Training and onboarding: varies by usage one-time fee
- Customization and maintenance: varies by usage per month Total estimated monthly cost: varies by usage
- Large Enterprises (21+ members):
- Hardware and infrastructure: varies by usage per month
- Training and onboarding: varies by usage one-time fee
- Customization and maintenance: varies by usage per month Total estimated monthly cost: varies by usage
Note that these estimates are rough and can vary depending on the specific needs of each organization.
How Trino Pricing Compares
When comparing Trino's pricing to other popular data warehouse query engines, we see a clear advantage in terms of cost-effectiveness. For example:
- Amazon Redshift: Starting with varying pricing per user/month (billed annually), with additional costs for storage and compute resources.
- Google BigQuery: Pricing based on the amount of data processed, with a minimum charge of varying amounts per TB processed.
- Snowflake: Pricing based on the number of clusters and storage consumed, with a minimum charge of varying amounts per cluster.
Trino's free plan and optional enterprise support make it an attractive option for organizations looking to reduce costs while still achieving high-performance data warehousing capabilities.