{
  "name": "Published pricing in agentic data engineering, Q3 2026",
  "description": "A census of what every vendor in the agentic data engineering peer set publicly publishes about price. 21 vendors, one row each, every row carrying the URL fetched and the date fetched. Of the 21 vendors reviewed on 10 September 2026, 6 published a rate a buyer can read without contacting sales.",
  "publisher": "Data Workers, Inc.",
  "creator": "Dhanush Shetty, founder, Data Workers",
  "contact": "hello@dataworkers.io",
  "page": "https://dataworkers.io/research/published-pricing-agentic-data-engineering-2026/",
  "dataset_url": "https://dataworkers.io/published-pricing-agentic-data-engineering-2026.json",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
  "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "cite_as": "Data Workers, Published pricing in agentic data engineering, 10 September 2026, https://dataworkers.io/research/published-pricing-agentic-data-engineering-2026/",
  "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
  "date_modified": "2026-09-10",
  "refresh": "Quarterly",
  "vendor_frame": "The 21 vendors of The Agentic Data Engineering Index, Q4 2026 (https://dataworkers.io/agentic-data-engineering-index.json). No vendor was added or dropped for this census.",
  "method": {
    "what_counted": "The vendor's own website only. One pricing URL per vendor, plus at most one supporting fetch, capped at two fetches per vendor.",
    "published_means": "A vendor is recorded as publishing a rate card only when at least one PAID tier shows a money figure a buyer can read without contacting sales. A free tier alone does not qualify.",
    "excluded": "AWS Marketplace and other reseller listings, analyst reports, third-party blogs, pricing quoted in sales calls, and any figure not visible on the URL recorded in the row.",
    "absent_price": "Where no price was visible on a fetched page the figure field reads 'does not publish'. No figure is inferred, remembered or taken from a secondary source.",
    "contest": "Email hello@dataworkers.io with the vendor, the URL and what it shows. Upheld corrections are credited in the next edition."
  },
  "classes": {
    "rate-card": "Published rate card",
    "unit-only": "Published unit but no rate",
    "contact": "Contact sales only",
    "none": "No pricing page"
  },
  "counts": {
    "total": 21,
    "published_rate_card": 6,
    "published_unit_no_rate": 6,
    "contact_sales_only": 4,
    "no_pricing_page": 5
  },
  "prior_art": {
    "page": "https://dataworkers.io/blog/agentic-data-industry-pricing-report-2026/",
    "date": "2026-08-09",
    "relationship": "The August 2026 report read 52 pricing pages across the wider data tooling market and included AWS Marketplace contract listings, which is where its $48,000 to $100,000 catalog contract range comes from. This census is narrower and stricter: 21 agentic data engineering vendors, one row each, vendor websites only, every row dated and sourced, refreshed quarterly. Vendors that appear here as publishing no rate on their own site may still publish a contract price on a marketplace; both statements are true of different surfaces."
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "vendor": "Alkera",
      "category": "Direct peer",
      "classification": "Published rate card",
      "classification_key": "rate-card",
      "what_they_publish": "Four tiers with monthly prices on the page",
      "figure": "Free $0; Plus $50/month; Pro $250/month; Enterprise custom",
      "url_fetched": "https://alkera.ai/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "The Index recorded pricing.alkera.ai as not resolving in DNS. alkera.ai/pricing resolved and rendered on 10 September 2026."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Altimate AI",
      "category": "Direct peer",
      "classification": "Published rate card",
      "classification_key": "rate-card",
      "what_they_publish": "Per-seat subscription plus a published token top-up rate",
      "figure": "Community free (10M tokens once); Pro $29/seat/month incl. 20M tokens per seat per month; top-ups $5 per 1M tokens; Enterprise custom",
      "url_fetched": "https://altimate.ai/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "The only vendor in this census that publishes a dollar rate for model tokens on its own pricing page."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Ardent AI",
      "category": "Pivoted, retained for continuity",
      "classification": "Published rate card",
      "classification_key": "rate-card",
      "what_they_publish": "Subscription plus published compute and storage rates",
      "figure": "Starter $0 (+$30 one-time credit); Scale $250/month (+$100/month credits); compute $0.40 per CU-hr; storage $0.70 per GB-month; Enterprise custom",
      "url_fetched": "https://tryardent.com/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "1 CU is defined on the page as 1 vCPU plus 4 GB RAM."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Recce",
      "category": "Direct peer, single lane",
      "classification": "Published rate card",
      "classification_key": "rate-card",
      "what_they_publish": "Two priced tiers, metered in agent reviews",
      "figure": "Free $0 (10 preset checks, 100 agent reviews/month); Team $250/month billed annually or $300/month billed monthly (1,000 agent reviews/month); Enterprise contact",
      "url_fetched": "https://reccehq.com/pricing/",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Wren AI",
      "category": "Adjacent, analytics and context layer",
      "classification": "Published rate card",
      "classification_key": "rate-card",
      "what_they_publish": "Credit-metered subscriptions with a published per-credit overage rate",
      "figure": "Free $0; Essential Cloud $179/month billed annually (13,200 credits/yr); Enterprise Cloud $559/month billed annually (24,000 credits/yr); extra credits $0.10 each; Enterprise Plus quoted by sales",
      "url_fetched": "https://getwren.ai/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Open-source edition listed as free."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Data Workers",
      "category": "Publisher of this census",
      "classification": "Published rate card",
      "classification_key": "rate-card",
      "what_they_publish": "Three lines, no usage meter",
      "figure": "Pilot Program $7,500 one-time, credited in full against year one; Scale from $1,000/month; Enterprise from $3,000/month; both billed annually, unlimited seats, no usage metering and no markup on model spend",
      "url_fetched": "https://dataworkers.io/pricing/",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Listed in sequence with every other row and fetched the same way on the same day."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Ataccama",
      "category": "Incumbent converging on the category",
      "classification": "Published unit but no rate",
      "classification_key": "unit-only",
      "what_they_publish": "Three billing dimensions named, no figures",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://www.ataccama.com/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Page names named users, data objects managed and active data-quality configurations as the dimensions, then directs to Request pricing."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Monte Carlo",
      "category": "Observability incumbent",
      "classification": "Published unit but no rate",
      "classification_key": "unit-only",
      "what_they_publish": "Four tiers metered in credits, no cost per credit",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://montecarlo.ai/pricing/",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "montecarlodata.com/pricing/ returned 301 to montecarlo.ai/pricing/. Tiers Start, Scale, Enterprise, Business Critical. Page states cost per credit depends on the tier."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Validio",
      "category": "Observability with agentic RCA",
      "classification": "Published unit but no rate",
      "classification_key": "unit-only",
      "what_they_publish": "Cost variables named, no figures",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://validio.io/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Page states pricing is based on number of data assets, segments and deployment model, then directs to Talk to sales."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "OpenMetadata (Collate)",
      "category": "Open-source catalog and context layer",
      "classification": "Published unit but no rate",
      "classification_key": "unit-only",
      "what_they_publish": "User and data-asset limits per tier, no figures",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://www.getcollate.io/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Free 5 users and 500 assets; Premium 25 users and 5,000 assets; Enterprise 50+ users and 10,000+ assets. Additional users and assets can be bought, no rate shown."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Databricks (Lakeflow, Genie)",
      "category": "Platform vendor",
      "classification": "Published unit but no rate",
      "classification_key": "unit-only",
      "what_they_publish": "Billing units defined, no dollar rate on the pages fetched",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://www.databricks.com/product/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Page defines DBU, DSU, GB and HOUR and states pay-as-you-go with per-second granularity. The product pricing table did not render a figure to the fetcher; rates sit behind a region and product selector and a calculator."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Snowflake (Cortex Code)",
      "category": "Platform vendor",
      "classification": "Published unit but no rate",
      "classification_key": "unit-only",
      "what_they_publish": "Credits and per-TB storage named, dollar rates in a linked document",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Page names credits for compute and per-TB for optimized storage and points to a Service Consumption Table PDF and a calculator for the figures rather than showing them."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Datus AI",
      "category": "Direct peer",
      "classification": "Contact sales only",
      "classification_key": "contact",
      "what_they_publish": "Two free tiers, paid tier custom",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://datus.ai/pricing/",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Open Source free and Cloud Personal free. The page FAQ states that enterprise pricing is not listed publicly."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Atlan",
      "category": "Incumbent catalog",
      "classification": "Contact sales only",
      "classification_key": "contact",
      "what_they_publish": "A contact form",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://atlan.com/pricing/",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "The pricing URL renders a form to book a sales conversation. No tiers, no units, no figures."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Datafold",
      "category": "Adjacent, diff, CI and migration",
      "classification": "Contact sales only",
      "classification_key": "contact",
      "what_they_publish": "Nothing; the pricing URL redirects",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://www.datafold.com/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "/pricing/ redirects to /contact-us/."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Nao Labs",
      "category": "Adjacent, analytics agent",
      "classification": "Contact sales only",
      "classification_key": "contact",
      "what_they_publish": "Free self-hosted tier, both paid tiers custom",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://getnao.io/pricing/",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Free self-hosted; Cloud and Enterprise both shown as Custom with a contact call to action."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Upriver",
      "category": "Direct peer",
      "classification": "No pricing page",
      "classification_key": "none",
      "what_they_publish": "No pricing page",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://www.upriverdata.com/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Returned HTTP 404. The homepage nav on the same day listed How It Works, About, Careers, Blog, Start Free Trial and Book a Demo, with no pricing link and no figure."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Google (BigQuery data engineering agent, Dataplex)",
      "category": "Platform vendor",
      "classification": "No pricing page",
      "classification_key": "none",
      "what_they_publish": "No pricing page for the agent",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "No pricing page exists for the data engineering agent itself; the Index recorded its documentation URLs returning 301 to a 404. The BigQuery and Dataplex platform pricing pages were fetched on 10 September 2026 and returned truncated content, so no figure is recorded here for either. This row records a fetch limitation, not an absence of platform pricing."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Actioneer",
      "category": "Adjacent, business operations",
      "classification": "No pricing page",
      "classification_key": "none",
      "what_they_publish": "No pricing page",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://actioneer.com/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Returned HTTP 404."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Velum Labs",
      "category": "Pivoted or repositioned, retained for continuity",
      "classification": "No pricing page",
      "classification_key": "none",
      "what_they_publish": "No pricing page",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://velum-labs.com/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Returned HTTP 404."
    },
    {
      "vendor": "Mica AI",
      "category": "Pivoted or repositioned, retained for continuity",
      "classification": "No pricing page",
      "classification_key": "none",
      "what_they_publish": "No pricing page",
      "figure": "does not publish",
      "url_fetched": "https://usemica.com/pricing",
      "date_fetched": "2026-09-10",
      "note": "Returned HTTP 404."
    }
  ]
}