Lakebase Projects with FinOpsWay cost badges beside flowapp and databricksadmin, plus the reporting period in the toolbar.
See each project’s reported cost beside its name.

What makes up Lakebase costs?

These are separate cost components. Databricks explains them in its Lakebase cost guide. Check the current Lakebase pricing for your cloud and region.

Lakebase rates by cloud

Compare the published reference rates shown for each cloud. The exact price can vary by region, plan and promotion.

Compute

Compute rateAWSAzureGCP
Autoscaling compute, per CU-hour$0.092$0.111$0.104
Always-On baseline, per CU-hour$0.069$0.083$0.078

Storage

Storage componentAWSAzureGCP
Database storage: fault-tolerant distributed storage that scales with the capacity needed by your database$0.345/GB-month$0.390/GB-month$0.345/GB-month
PITR storage: retains historical data to enable recovery to any prior point within your retention window$0.200/GB-month$0.200/GB-month$0.200/GB-month
Snapshots: on-demand and automated database snapshots for backup and recovery$0.090/GB-month$0.090/GB-month$0.090/GB-month

Promotions, contract terms and region selection can change the final rate.

Prices shown for US East (AWS us-east-1)View official Databricks pricing.

Stay on FinOpsWay: See how cost is calculated or Connect your workspace.

How to check database and branch costs

  1. Connect FinOpsWay and open Lakebase Projects.
  2. Read a project’s cost, then open its branches. A branch is an isolated database environment, often used for testing.
  3. Compare branch costs over the same period. Check billing freshness before investigating a recent change.
Lakebase branches showing $0.95 for production and less than $0.01 for test, beside their compute ranges.
Open a project to compare production and test branch costs.

Example: The screenshot shows $0.95 for a production branch and less than $0.01 for a test branch. These are costs for the selected period, not hourly prices.

Check the estimate before creating a project

FinOpsWay shows an hourly compute estimate in the Create project dialog. Review it before creating the database. Screenshot prices are examples, not current quotes.

Lakebase Create project dialog with a FinOpsWay estimate of $0.37 to $0.74 per hour beside the production branch configuration.
Preview the hourly compute range before creating the project.

Hourly estimates in Lakebase settings

A CU, or compute unit, describes compute size. FinOpsWay shows hourly estimates beside the minimum and maximum CU settings. This range is not a forecast of actual monthly usage.

Lakebase autoscaling settings with hourly estimates beside the minimum 0.5 CU and maximum 1 CU.
Hourly estimates beside the compute range. Select the image to see the full settings.

Common questions

Does scale-to-zero remove every Lakebase charge?

No. Suspending compute does not remove stored data. Storage and separate sync workloads can still contribute to the total.

Does the database badge include sync pipeline costs?

Do not assume so. Review the pipeline separately when calculating the full cost of the application.

Billing can lag by several hours. Check the reported period and freshness. How FinOpsWay calculates costs.

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