Quarry bills for data scanned and data stored. There is no cluster to leave running overnight, no warm pool to size, and no bill for the hours nobody ran anything.
The comparison assumes a four-node cluster at $3.00 per node-hour plus $23 per TB stored. Drag the hours down and the cluster wins — that is the point of running your own numbers.
An estimate from list prices, not a quote. If your workload is a few enormous queries rather than many small ones, per-scan pricing may cost you more — the trial will show it.
Quarry speaks the Postgres wire protocol, so anything with a Postgres driver connects — your BI tool, your notebooks, your ORM, the psql on your laptop.
“Our bill stopped being a function of how forgetful people are about shutting clusters down.”
“The dbt adapter is maintained by them, so upgrades stopped being a weekend job.”
“They told us our workload was a bad fit for per-scan billing and suggested we stay put. We came back a year later.”
Thirty days with $500 of credit. Run your real dashboards against it and compare the bills, not the benchmarks.
