MotherDuck is a serverless cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB, pairing cloud storage and compute with DuckDB's fast local execution in a hybrid query model. It targets the large class of analytics workloads that never needed a distributed cluster: single-node-scale data explored interactively from notebooks, dbt, or BI tools. A free tier covers small workloads, with usage-based plans beyond it. DuckDB itself is open source; MotherDuck is the proprietary managed service built around it by a team including DuckDB Labs collaborators.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2022
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- No
Data warehouse
- Free tier
- Yes: Free plan for small workloads; usage-based paid plans.
- Serverless
- Yes
- Separates storage & compute
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Multi-cloud
- No