# Pay for value, not for data

Every plan includes unlimited data volume and unlimited queries. You pay for the people who use DataFocal and the collectors that feed it, never for how much they send.

## Open source: Free

Run the engine yourself.

- The full engine, Apache 2.0 license
- Findings, drill-down and search
- MCP server for your agents
- Your own storage
- Community support

## Team: $30 per user / month

Managed by us, ready in minutes.

- Everything in Open source
- Hosted and upgraded for you
- Unlimited queries, including from agents
- Collectors from $12 / month, less at volume
- Managed storage, or bring your own bucket

## Enterprise: Custom

For large teams and scale.

- Everything in Team
- SSO and roles
- Multiple teams and business units
- Long-horizon AI analysis
- Dedicated or in-your-cloud deployment
- Support SLA and onboarding

## Collectors

A collector runs where your data is and indexes it there. It costs the same whether it sends a gigabyte a day or a hundred.

- First 250: $12 per collector / month
- 251 to 1,000: $9 per collector / month
- Above 1,000: $6 per collector / month

- Collectors on developer machines, reading AI agent transcripts, are free.
- Billed on the month's average count, not the peak, so autoscaling doesn't cost you.

## Storage: managed, or your own bucket

Either way there's no charge for data volume.

### Managed by us: Cost + 20%

We run storage for you on low-cost object storage and pass the bill through at cost plus 20%, which covers running it.

- About $0.016 per GB-month at today's prices
- Example: 100 GB a day kept 30 days is about $54 / month
- Nothing to set up

### Your own bucket: $0

Point DataFocal at an S3-compatible bucket in your own account. The data never leaves it, and you pay your cloud provider directly.

- AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO or any S3-compatible store
- Your retention, encryption and access policies
- Available on Team and Enterprise

## Compare plans

| Feature | Open source | Team | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data volume | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Queries, human and agent | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Collectors | Unlimited | $12, $9 or $6 each by volume; developer machines free | Volume pricing |
| Storage | Your own | Managed at cost + 20%, or your bucket at $0 | Managed, your bucket or your cloud |
| Hosting | You run it | Managed | Managed, dedicated or your cloud |
| SSO and roles | — | — | ✓ |
| Support | Community | Email | SLA and onboarding |

## Questions

### Why don't you charge for data volume?

Because it punishes you for looking. DataFocal indexes data where it's collected and stores it compactly, so more data costs us little. You pay for the people and collectors that use DataFocal; storage is passed through at cost plus 20%, or free in your own bucket.

### What counts as a collector?

Each running collector that sends data to DataFocal, usually one per server, virtual machine or Kubernetes node. Collectors on developer machines that read AI agent transcripts are free.

### Can my agents use DataFocal?

Yes. DataFocal is an MCP server: connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client. Agent queries are unlimited, like everyone else's.