Pick MotherDuck if
solo analysts who will stay on Lite $0 (10 GB + 10 Pulse hours), then buy Business at $250/org/month plus usage when they need Standard+ instances, Flights at scale, and a 99.9% SLA.
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Our take
Pick MotherDuck if solo analysts who will stay on Lite $0 (10 GB + 10 Pulse hours), then buy Business at $250/org/month plus usage when they need Standard+ instances, Flights at scale, and a 99.9% SLA. Pick Tinybird if app teams who will buy Developer at the printed $49/month (0.5 vCPU, 25 GB) while they publish a first Pipe, then talk to sales for SaaS when they need up to 32 vCPUs and 500 GB.
Tinybird
hosted ClickHouse analytics-API desk
Best for
MotherDuck Cloud DuckDB metered in CU-hours and GB
Tinybird SQL APIs you meter by vCPU
Free plan
MotherDuck $0 · no card. Up to 3 internal users and 2 service accounts. 10 GB storage and 10 Pulse hours / month included. Pulse instances only. Preset RBAC. Community support. 1-day snapshots. Lite without a card includes 30 minutes/day of F4 Flights
Tinybird No free plan
Lowest paid
MotherDuck Storage $0.04/mo
Tinybird Meters $0.0002
Next step up
MotherDuck Flights $0.15/hour
Tinybird Developer (table header) $25/mo
Coding agent
MotherDuck Flights
Tinybird
Runs where
MotherDuck
Tinybird Hosted
Watch out
MotherDuck Lite is Pulse-only
Tinybird The page prints both $49 and “starting at $25” for Developer
Last checked
MotherDuck 2026-10-22 · motherduck.com/pricing
Tinybird 2026-10-23 · tinybird.co/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Tinybird if
app teams who will buy Developer at the printed $49/month (0.5 vCPU, 25 GB) while they publish a first Pipe, then talk to sales for SaaS when they need up to 32 vCPUs and 500 GB.
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