Databricks

databricks.com · Compute, Storage · 3 records · JSON

Databricks Computetrialemailno cardDvolume-quota
Databricks Free Edition (default storage / Unity Catalog volumes) Storagetrialinstitutionno cardRdisagrees
databricks free edition (default storage as an archive) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees

Databricks Compute

trialemailno cardDvolume-quota

www.databricks.com/product/startups · cloud VM · compute/databricks · JSON · compare

Free tier	'Up to $400 in credits' on the free-trial table, with 'Full Databricks platform access for two (2) weeks used for business evaluation'. The page adds: 'A customer's eligibility for credits under this offer, the amount of credits (if any), and when any credits expire are solely determined by Databricks following account creation.' unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	platform access for 14 days; the credit's expiry is determined by Databricks after signup, and the trial ends when the credits are exhausted (14 days)
Egress	not stated
Identity	email no credit card is required to start the trial; a work email is recommended for full trial benefits, and the Free Edition accepts a personal address
Limits	volume-quota up to USD 400 of credits, 14 days of platform access, amount at Databricks' discretion source this is a ceiling, not a grant: the page states eligibility, amount and expiry are decided after account creation
Binding	volume-quota the credit is a discretionary ceiling with a 14-day access window, so the balance and the window end it together
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	USD 200,000 on Databricks compute is the largest credit in the data-platform group and it also funds Neon Postgres, so one approval covers both a warehouse and an app database. The chain breaks at the funding round.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The 14 days is the access window, not a stated credit expiry. No all-purpose-cluster DBU rate could be read, so the credit cannot be sized as a machine. Working against the client's own cloud account bills that cloud provider directly, outside the credit.
Evidence rung	documented the trial page was read on 2026-10-23 and carries the amount, the two-week access window and the discretion clause; the pricing page serves its SKU tables client-side, so no DBU rate is recorded
Checked	2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-23	www.databricks.com/try-databricks	quoted: 'Up to $400 in credits' and 'Full Databricks platform access for two (2) weeks used for business evaluation'
2026-10-23	www.databricks.com/try-databricks	quoted: 'No credit card is required to start your Databricks free trial.' and the discretion clause on eligibility, amount and expiry
2026-10-23	www.databricks.com/product/pricing	200 with 413 words; every instance-type path returned 404 or an empty extraction, so no DBU rate was established

More fields (4)

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 "wave2": {
  "class": "startup-credit",
  "free_tier_kind": "one-shot-credit",
  "shape": null
 },
 "credit_usd_ceiling": 400,
 "access_days": 14,
 "dbu_rate": null
}

Unknown or withheld values (7)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.tooling not-stated

Corrections

2026-10-23 The credit ladder was widened to twenty, and nine more claims moved

Databricks Free Edition (default storage / Unity Catalog volumes) Storage

trialinstitutionno cardRdisagrees

docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition · paas · storage/databricks-free-edition · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: storage/databricks-free-edition says trial-only, storage/databricks-free-edition-2 says fails-quota
identity_kind: storage/databricks-free-edition says institution, storage/databricks-free-edition-2 says email

Free tier	No published byte quota. Free Edition ships 'serverless compute and default storage, so you can immediately start exploring and building' — default storage is 'a fully managed object storage platform' and in serverless workspaces you can 'create additional catalogs in either default storage or in your own cloud object storage'. Quotas are documented for compute, jobs, pipelines, model serving and apps — never for bytes. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Not addressed in the Free Edition docs. Outbound internet is 'restricted to a limited set of trusted domains', which throttles external egress to non-approved hosts.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: thout a documented quota but also without a storage-native API — you cannot `PUT` arbitrary bytes without spinning compute, and compute is throttled to 'the rest of the day'. Custom
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest, rclone, cli rest
Tooling	Unity Catalog volumes via SQL (`CREATE CATALOG ...`) or the Databricks CLI / REST API; no rclone backend. File access requires serverless, Unity-Catalog-enabled compute — 'All interactions with default storage require serverless, Unity Catalog-enabled compute'.
Composes with	One workspace per signup; the docs do not cap workspaces. Storage is uncapped in the docs but only reachable through compute, so the real multiplier is compute quota resets ('your workspace's compute resources will be shut down and unavailable for the rest of the day' on quota exhaustion; data is retained).
Reliability	Storage without a documented quota but also without a storage-native API — you cannot `PUT` arbitrary bytes without spinning compute, and compute is throttled to 'the rest of the day'. Custom workspace storage locations are unsupported. Realistically a place to park tabular artefacts, not a 20 TiB blob archive.
Notes	No published byte quota. Free Edition ships 'serverless compute and default storage, so you can immediately start exploring and building' — default storage is 'a fully managed object storage platform' and in serverless workspaces you can 'create additional catalogs in either default storage or in your own cloud object storage'. Quotas are documented for compute, jobs, pipelines, model serving and apps — never for bytes.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition	'Your new workspace includes serverless compute and default storage'
2026-10-21	docs.databricks.com/aws/en/storage/default-storage	'Default storage is a fully managed object storage platform'; 'All interactions with default storage require serverless, Unity Catalog-enabled compute'
2026-10-21	docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limi	(last updated 2026-10-18) — quota table covers compute/jobs/pipelines/serving only; 'Custom workspace storage locations' unsupported
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: GET docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limitations -> 200 (read live 2026-10-21)

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "not-storage",
  "why": "No published byte quota. Free Edition ships 'serverless compute and default storage, so you can immediately start exploring and building' — default storage is 'a fully managed object storage platform' and in serverless workspaces you can 'create additional catalogs in either default storage or in your own cloud object storage'. Quotas are documented for compute, jobs, pipelines, model serving and apps — never for bytes.",
  "retry_when": "never; it is not storage",
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.evidence[3].url private-url
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted

databricks free edition (default storage as an archive) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees

docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limi · rejected-provider · storage/databricks-free-edition-2 · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: storage/databricks-free-edition says trial-only, storage/databricks-free-edition-2 says fails-quota
identity_kind: storage/databricks-free-edition says institution, storage/databricks-free-edition-2 says email

Free tier	Free Edition is perpetual in the sense that it does not expire, and hitting quota does not delete data ('your data and settings will not be deleted'). But it is serverless-only with per-acco unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Free Edition is perpetual in the sense that it does not expire, and hitting quota does not delete data ('your data and settings will not be deleted'). But it is serverless-only with per-acco
Notes	Free Edition is perpetual in the sense that it does not expire, and hitting quota does not delete data ('your data and settings will not be deleted'). But it is serverless-only with per-acco
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limi	Free Edition is perpetual in the sense that it does not expire, and hitting quota does not delete data ('your data and settings will not be deleted'). But it is serverless-only with per-acco

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "retention",
  "why": "Free Edition is perpetual in the sense that it does not expire, and hitting quota does not delete data ('your data and settings will not be deleted'). But it is serverless-only with per-acco",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded