Kinetica
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Plans and prices
From Kinetica's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated Cloud | $1.80 a month | Unlimited storage · Pay-as-you-go hourly pricing |
| Developer Edition | Free | single node · unlimited storage · basic support · no multi-user · no GPU acceleration options · no multi-node clusters · no external authentication or authorization · no full HA replication · Free forever |
| Enterprise Edition | Priced on request | on-premise or AWS and Azure Marketplace · custom sizes and configurations · standard or premium support · external authentication and authorization · full HA replication · Contact Us |
The facts
Each one read from Kinetica's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecture
- Its database is distributed, columnar, memory-first, and vectorized, and it orchestrates work across GPUs and CPUs.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Developer setup
- The local Developer Edition runs as a Docker container and requires Docker with at least 8GB of RAM allocated.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Enterprise authentication
- Enterprise Edition supports external authentication through LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, or Kerberos.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Enterprise deployment
- Enterprise Edition is self-managed and can run on customer-selected hardware, on-premise, or through AWS and Azure Marketplace.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Kinetica's vector search page says embedding providers include OpenAI, NVIDIA NIM, and locally hosted models with a compatible inference endpoint.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker presents Kinetica for defense and intelligence, financial services, energy and utilities, telecommunications, logistics and supply chain, and insurance use cases.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Product
- Kinetica describes itself as a distributed, hardware-accelerated database for real-time analytics, combining SQL, vector, graph, time-series, and spatial workloads in one engine.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Real-time data
- The maker says Kafka and CDC records can be queried as they arrive, while streaming materialized views update as records arrive.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- Kinetica documents role-based permissions, granular access to tables and schemas, and row and column controls including masking and obfuscation.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- Kinetica offers Basic, Standard, and Premium support tiers; Premium includes off-hours and weekend coverage, follow-the-sun case management, and monthly incident reporting.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Vector search
- Kinetica says new embeddings are searchable as they land and that vector search can run with structured filters, joins, and time windows in one SQL statement.checked 4 Oct 2026
Money
- Cloud free limits
- The free Kinetica Cloud account includes up to 10GB storage, shared compute, full database functionality, unlimited SQL and API access, and basic support.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Company
- Kinetica's contact page lists its address as 8219 Leesburg Pike, Suite 650, Vienna, Virginia 22182.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Vienna, Virginia, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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