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Get an exact quote
Pricing plans
Databento offers two pricing plans:
Pay as you go with our usage-based pricing.
Get unlimited data for a monthly flat rate (Enterprise).
By default, Databento accounts are set up with usage-based pricing. This means data is metered by its uncompressed size in binary encoding ($/GB), and you only pay for what you use.
Get a monthly estimate
Learn more and estimate your costs per month with the calculator on our Pricing page. Select a dataset, schema, and the products you're interested in. You can also toggle between historical and live data, or select both.
Our historical and live services are nearly identical, but we separate them due to licensing fees. See Licensing and live data for pricing information.
Get an exact quote in the portal
You can get an exact quote by clicking on any dataset in our catalog. Select individual products or the entire dataset and the batch widget will drop down. Here, you can specify your desired schema and time range.
Click Customize download to see our encodings, compression options, and delivery methods. Learn more with our documentation. More customization options, like higher granularity, are available via API.
Any data requested from your Databento portal is considered a batch download. When you request a batch download, you're only billed for the initial request. You can then download the data from your Download center as many times as you want over 30 days.
Get an exact quote via API
For historical data, the Historical.metadata.get_cost method can be used to determine the cost before you request any data via API. Generally, live data is 1.2x the cost of historical data—excluding license fees—and is only available to stream via API.
Historical data is billed per byte consumed, and live data is billed per message. When you stream data, you are billed incrementally for each outbound byte of data sent from our historical or live gateway.
Usage-based rates per schema ($/GB)
Prices vary per dataset. You can see $/GB (uncompressed binary) rates in the batch download widget.
For more information on our schemas and naming conventions, see our documentation.
Billing and monthly limits
Each billing cycle starts on the first and ends on the last day of the month. The invoice is then available on the first day of the following month. Your payment date is always 10 calendar days after the end of the month.
Example: you open a Databento account on June 3. Your billing cycle ends on June 30, and your first invoice is available on July 1. All your download requests from June appear on your first invoice, and Databento charges your payment method on July 10.
You can set monthly limits for your entire team, as well as each member of your team (as an Owner or Admin). Databento will block further data requests once your monthly usage exceeds your limits. Learn more about billing management in our documentation.
Free credits
Each account receives $125 in free data credits to share across your team. These can only be used for historical data and are automatically deducted from your invoice. Each team is eligible for one set of credits, and you will only be charged for requests in excess of $125 total. Read more in our credits guide.
Why is a credit card required to register for Databento?
We ask for a credit or debit card to verify the authenticity of your account and prevent fraudulent use. We only process charges that exceed free credit limits, and registration is completely free. It's also free to keep an inactive account open. Your data is always securely protected by Stripe.