MotherDuck

MotherDuck is a managed cloud analytics service built around DuckDB. It offers shared databases and compute instances that are billed per second, and it targets customers from small teams through to enterprises. The service is provided by MotherDuck, a company separate from the DuckDB project. The service itself is proprietary, although it is built on DuckDB, which is released under the MIT licence. It is available only as a managed service and has no self-managed edition. Pricing is published in three plans. Lite is free at $0 and includes 10 GB of storage and 10 compute hours a month. Business costs $250 a month plus usage, and a 7-day trial of the Business plan is offered. Enterprise pricing is custom. Storage is charged at $0.04 per GB per month. No version numbering or release dates were found for the service, so no latest release is given here. Buyers should note that the licence terms of the hosted service were not reviewed beyond its description as proprietary, so contractual terms should be checked directly with the vendor before committing to a paid plan.