- Starting price
- $0.50credit
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Website
- www.starburstdata.com
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
When you need real-time access to data across Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon S3, Postgres, and more—without moving data—Starbust provides a single SQL context for multi-source analytics:
Connectors & Data Access
50+ connectors to access all data across ecosystems, enabling queries where the data lives.
Federated Querying Across Sources
A single SQL statement can span multiple data sources, reducing the need for manual data stitching.
High-Performance Execution
Delivers roughly 10x faster query performance on common workloads.
AI-Ready Throughput
AI workloads scale with throughput, with ~300 million AI queries served since February 2025.
Summary
Best for data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML teams that work with multi-source data and governance constraints.
Pricing
View pricingPlans and prices as listed on starburstdata.com as of Sep 24, 2026.
Free
$0 / 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)
- AIDA (token usage billed separately)
Mission-Critical
$1.00 / credit
- Elite support and ticketing
- Advanced governance integrations
- Lakehouse security and compliance tools
- Highest uptime guarantees
- AIDA (token usage billed separately)
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