About Starbust
Starbust is a distributed SQL query engine designed to run fast queries across data lakes and federate across multiple sources. It serves data teams and organizations aiming to accelerate AI-powered analytics by providing broad connectivity and scalable performance.
Key Features
Key capabilities that enable AI-driven analytics across environments:
Connectors & Data Access
50+ connectors to access all data.
Federated Querying Across Sources
Queries can span multiple data sources.
High-Performance Execution
10x faster query performance.
AI-Ready Throughput
AI queries served at scale (~300 million since February 2025).
Summary
The primary value for data teams lies in fast, governance-friendly analytics across a multi-source data landscape, enabled by a scalable SQL engine and broad connectors that simplify data access and support AI workloads.
Pricing
View pricingFree
$0 / Free forever
- Create and run up to 3 clusters
- Access to standard cluster execution mode for ad hoc queries
Pro
$0.50 / /credit
- Flexible cluster execution modes
- Streaming Ingest
- Advanced cluster management
Enterprise
$0.75 / /credit
- Advanced autoscaling features
- Fine-grained access controls (ABAC, SCIM)
- AWS PrivateLink for data sources
- Early access to features (Private Preview)
Mission-Critical
$1.00 / /credit
- Elite support and ticketing
- Advanced governance integrations
- Lakehouse security and compliance tools
- Highest uptime guarantees
