Databricks

Data and AI platform for the AI agent era

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Audited by Jack Phillips · Updated May 2026

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Overall score

3.5/ 5

SME fit2/5

usage-metered pricing + free trial · technical setup

JTBD4/5

solid named JTBD

Integration5/5

MCP + API + 10 integrations

Trust5/5

mature, founded 2013

Quality1/5

no public rating

Compliance5/5

SOC 2 + GDPR + customer-choice residency

About

Databricks is the unified data + AI platform spanning data warehousing, ML, and generative AI. The product line includes Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Mosaic AI (post the $1.3B MosaicML acquisition), Genie (data-aware AI partner) and Agent Bricks for production AI agents. Founded 2013 as the commercial company behind Apache Spark; repositioned AI-first under co-founder Ali Ghodsi as enterprise customers shifted to LLM workloads.

Best for: Series A and growth-stage data and engineering teams running real workloads on AWS, Azure or GCP who need data warehousing, ML and AI agents on the same governed platform.

Pricing

Free Trial
Monthly
Free
Annual /mo
Free
Billing
flat
Notes
14-day trial;$400 in Databricks usage credits;Access to all platform features · No credit card required for trial signup
Premium
Monthly
n/a
Annual /mo
n/a
Billing
usage_based
Notes
Pay per second DBU billing;Unity Catalog;Databricks SQL Workspace;Enhanced security features;Multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) · DBU rate varies by cloud provider and workload type; consult the Databricks pricing calculator for estimates
Enterprise
Monthly
n/a
Annual /mo
n/a
Billing
usage_based
Notes
Everything in Premium;Compliance and audit features;Advanced governance;Enterprise-grade security;Committed-use volume discounts · Contact sales for committed-use discounts; SOC 2 Type II report available on request

Tier	Monthly	Annual /mo	Billing	Notes
Free Trial	Free	Free	flat	14-day trial;$400 in Databricks usage credits;Access to all platform features · No credit card required for trial signup
Premium	n/a	n/a	usage_based	Pay per second DBU billing;Unity Catalog;Databricks SQL Workspace;Enhanced security features;Multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) · DBU rate varies by cloud provider and workload type; consult the Databricks pricing calculator for estimates
Enterprise	n/a	n/a	usage_based	Everything in Premium;Compliance and audit features;Advanced governance;Enterprise-grade security;Committed-use volume discounts · Contact sales for committed-use discounts; SOC 2 Type II report available on request

Key features

Lakehouse: serverless data warehousing on open lake data with governance and AI built-in
Unity Catalog: governance across data, models, dashboards and agents
Mosaic AI: train and serve LLMs on your own data (post-MosaicML acquisition)
Genie: data-aware AI partner for natural-language insights
Agent Bricks: build production AI agents grounded in your data
MLflow: experiment tracking, model versioning and deployment
Native MCP servers for Vector Search, Genie Spaces, Databricks SQL and Unity Catalog
Pay-per-second DBU billing across AWS, Azure and GCP