Reading the pricing models for catalogs and context platforms

Comparing prices in this category is hard for two reasons. Most vendors do not publish them, and those that do use different units. Before you compare quotes, work out which unit grows when your agent plans succeed.

Cube publishes a free plan that includes an MCP server, a Starter plan at $40 per developer per month, a Premium plan at $80 per developer per month and custom Enterprise pricing. Honeydew publishes Lite at $20 per user per month plus a platform fee from $500 per month, and Standard at $30 per user per month for up to 50 users plus a platform fee from $2,000 per month, with a 14-day free trial. DataHub has no list price on its site, but an AWS Marketplace listing for DataHub Cloud shows $75,000 for a 12-month contract with up to 20 monthly active users.

Source: Cube pricing

Source: Honeydew pricing

Source: AWS Marketplace: DataHub Cloud listing

Euno publishes its tiers and limits without dollar figures: Start up to 150K resources, Scale up to 1.5M and Enterprise at any scale, priced by the data assets you manage with unlimited users and AI agents. AtScale publishes its model, consumption by deployed semantic objects with no per-seat or per-query fees, but no prices. Atlan, Alation, Collibra and Select Star publish none on the pages we read.

Source: Euno pricing

Source: AtScale pricing

If you plan many agents and many casual users, per-user pricing grows with adoption, while asset-based pricing grows with the size of your stack. Euno's resources include tables, dashboards, models, metrics, users, groups, columns and fields, so a wide warehouse counts for more than a narrow one. Per-developer pricing, as at Cube, grows with the modeling team rather than with consumers. Semantic-object pricing, as at AtScale, grows with the size of the governed model.

Source: Euno pricing

Plan limits matter as much as prices. Euno caps integrations by tier and sets limits on classifications, assistant interactions and Context API calls. Honeydew's Standard plan caps users at 50. Marketplace listings can count against existing cloud commitments, which matters to procurement.

Source: Euno pricing

Source: Honeydew pricing

Give every vendor the same inputs: number of warehouses and BI tools, approximate tables and dashboards, number of human users, number of agents and expected agent calls per month. Ask for the price at today's size and at three times that size. The second number tells you more, because a successful agent rollout grows usage faster than most budgets assume. Ask, too, what happens at a tier boundary: whether the next tier is a step change in price, and whether any limit stops the service or only triggers a conversation.