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Databricks Lakehouse (Databricks SQL) offers usage-based pricing from $0.220–$0.700 per month as of November 2026. Plans: SQL Classic (usage-based), SQL Pro (usage-based), and SQL Serverless (usage-based). Usage cost depends on the selected model and generation volume.

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Databricks Lakehouse (Databricks SQL) offers 3 pricing tiers: SQL Classic, SQL Pro, SQL Serverless. Paid plans include SQL Classic (usage-based), SQL Pro (usage-based), SQL Serverless (usage-based). The SQL Pro plan is analytics teams needing higher performance and predictive optimization for complex workloads.

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Databricks Lakehouse (Databricks SQL) lists $500-$5000/month, but hidden costs like implementation and support add to the total as of November 2026. Key hidden costs: cloud provider vm compute: billed separately by your cloud provider for each warehouse cluster, on top of dbu charges (the 'two-bill' problem), object storage (s3/adls/gcs): charged by your cloud provider at its standard rates, separate from databricks dbu charges, network egress: data transfer between databricks compute and storage billed by cloud provider. Verified from 4 sources by CostBench.

Hidden Costs Breakdown

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Cloud provider VM compute: billed separately by your cloud provider for each warehouse cluster, on top of DBU charges (the 'two-bill' problem)

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Object storage (S3/ADLS/GCS): charged by your cloud provider at its standard rates, separate from Databricks DBU charges

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Network egress: data transfer between Databricks compute and storage billed by cloud provider

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Unity Catalog metastore: included but underlying storage for metadata is a separate cloud cost

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Premium tier required for role-based access control and SQL Warehouses — Standard tier does not support SQL Analytics

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14-day free trial is free for Databricks charges, but cloud provider bills for any resources consumed during trial

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