Grafana Enterprise vs Databricks Lakehouse (Databricks SQL)

Name: Databricks Lakehouse (Databricks SQL)
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Business Intelligence pricing comparison · 2026

Grafana Enterprise is quote-based, while Databricks Lakehouse (Databricks SQL) is usage-based from $0.22 per DBU.

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Grafana Enterprise

Grafana Enterprise is the commercial edition of Grafana — the world's most widely deployed

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Databricks Lakehouse (Databricks SQL)

Databricks SQL Analytics is the SQL warehouse layer of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform,

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Estimated license cost

at 25 seats

List price × seats. Click a tier below to lock it.

Pricing model unknown

no public list price found

Usage-based

$0.22 per DBU

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What buyers actually pay

median, annual

Vendr deal-flow data. The real benchmark, not list price.

Median annual

$4.8K/yr

Vendr · n=6 · limited data

No Vendr data

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Not in Vendr's deal flow

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Sources & confidence

Every dollar amount and contract clause below traces back to a sourced fact. We don't manufacture composite scores.

Where this data comes from

Vendr · TrustRadius · Reddit · BBB · official docs

Sources 9 sourced facts

7 hidden-cost · 1 contract · Vendr median

Last verified 2d ago

Confidence High confidence

Sources 1 sourced fact

1 contract

Last verified 3mo ago

Confidence Medium confidence

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Plans at a glance

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Hidden costs

Each cost is severity-ranked, with the dollar range quoted from its source (Vendr, Reddit, TrustRadius, BBB, official docs) — never our estimate.

Beyond the sticker

Severity-ranked, sourced

5 documented

Paywall Creep on Previously Free Features

5-15% of license costs

1 source
Plugin Signing / Marketplace Fees

10-20% of license costs

2 sources
Loki Read-Path Overage Charges

15-40% of license costs

1 source
Metrics Timeseries Pricing at Scale

10-25% of license costs

1 source
Self-Managed Operational Overhead

20-50% of license costs

2 sources

No hidden costs documented

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Contract terms

The fine print, surfaced. Green = buyer-friendly. Each clause backed by a quoted source.

Grafana

Databricks

Auto-renewal

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Yes

Cancellation

—

Commitment

1 year (annual contract, custom pricing)

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Price escalation

No published schedule; users report pricing has trended upward over time across Grafana's product line.

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Can downgrade

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What users say

Aggregated, with sample sizes. We use whichever review platform has data.

User reviews

TrustRadius · Trustpilot · G2

No public ratings yet

Watch out

Progressively paywalling features that were previously free in the open-source version

No public ratings yet

Best for

Teams with consistent, high-frequency query workloads where warehouses run most of the time

Watch out

Cost Management: Managing costs can be challenging, particularly concerning compute resources, and expenses can increase significantly as usage scales.

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License cost is computed from publicly listed plans (real math, list price × seats). Median annual cost is from Vendr's deal flow when available — see source badges. Hidden costs and contract terms each cite their own sources. We do not invent composite scores.

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