Most data platforms charge you more the more you use them. IOMETE flips the model – a predictable platform that runs on infrastructure you already own, so your costs stay flat while your data, workloads, and teams keep growing.
| Capability | IOMETE | SaaS lakehouses |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing basis | A predictable platform license tied to your deployment, not your query volume | Metered by compute, storage, and queries – the bill grows as your usage grows |
| Where compute runs | On your own hardware or cloud account – you pay your infrastructure cost, with no vendor markup | On the vendor's cloud, with a markup on every credit consumed |
| Idle and scaling | Clusters scale to zero inside your cluster – idle costs you nothing extra | Auto-suspend windows still bill, and serverless tiers add a premium |
| Growth cost | Add nodes at infrastructure cost as you scale | Per-unit consumption multiplies as workloads and teams grow |
| Users and seats | Unlimited users on your platform | Per-user, per-workspace, or per-edition tiers |
| Forecasting | Flat and budgetable a year ahead | Variable monthly bills that are hard to predict |
| Data movement | Data stays in your environment – no egress to a vendor cloud | Cross-cloud transfer and egress fees are common |
| Lock-in | Open Apache Iceberg and Spark – your data stays portable | Proprietary formats and runtimes raise the cost of leaving |
Consumption pricing is great for getting started fast. IOMETE is the better fit when you want costs that stay predictable as you scale – a platform you own and run, instead of a meter that grows with every query, user, and gigabyte.
Run as many queries, jobs, and notebooks as your business needs. Curiosity and scale do not show up as a line item, so your teams explore freely instead of rationing compute.
IOMETE deploys inside your environment, so you pay your real infrastructure cost with no markup on credits, DBUs, or warehouse seconds. There is no second cloud bill sitting on top of your own.
A platform license you can forecast replaces a variable monthly bill that spikes with success. Finance gets a number it can plan around, not a meter it has to watch.
Fast, distributed SQL over Apache Iceberg tables, served straight from your own infrastructure.
Build and schedule pipelines on the same engine that runs your queries. No separate ETL product to license.
Train and explore alongside your data, with no extra ML tier and no data leaving your environment.
Stream from Kafka, Kinesis, and Pulsar through the same Spark engine. Streaming is part of the platform, not an upsell.
Fine-grained access control enforced at query time, entirely inside your perimeter. Audit logs stay with you.
Run on-premises, in your sovereign cloud, or air-gapped. The full platform ships in one deployment.
SQL, ETL, ML, streaming, and governance ship together. There is no per-feature pricing, no premium edition, and no separate product to buy for the workload you need next.
Because a single number would be misleading. IOMETE runs on your infrastructure, so the right model depends on your deployment, scale, and environment – on-premises, sovereign cloud, or air-gapped. We size a predictable platform license to your situation rather than quoting a sticker price that does not fit anyone.
As a predictable platform license tied to your deployment, not your usage. You run the compute on infrastructure you already own or operate, and IOMETE does not meter your queries, jobs, or users on top of that.
No. With consumption-based platforms, doing more with your data costs more every month. With IOMETE, you add capacity at infrastructure cost when you choose to, and there is no per-query or per-credit meter multiplying as you grow.
No. Users are unlimited on your platform. There are no per-seat or per-workspace tiers, so adding analysts, engineers, and data scientists does not increase what you pay.
One complete platform – SQL, ETL, ML, streaming, and governance on a single engine – running entirely inside your environment, with support and the assurance that your data never leaves your control. There are no add-on editions for the workloads you need next.
Those platforms bill by consumption on their cloud, so spend tracks usage and is hard to forecast. IOMETE keeps compute and storage in your environment under a flat, predictable license – which is why regulated teams often find total cost both lower and far easier to plan.
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