# Amazon Redshift vs Firebolt

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Firebolt

| Attribute | Amazon Redshift | Firebolt |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 49.1 (63% (medium)) | 63 (74% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A managed cloud data warehouse that combines traditional warehouse analytics with data lake query capabilities through a unified SQL engine, powered by AWS Graviton processors for high performance and cost efficiency. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What is Amazon Redshift?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amazon Redshift offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.54 per hour. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","question":"Is Amazon Redshift free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Amazon Redshift. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What platforms does Amazon Redshift support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon Redshift, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"Can Amazon Redshift be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Amazon Redshift, including Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Apache Iceberg, Apache Parquet, Streaming services and Operational databases. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","question":"What does Amazon Redshift integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon Redshift. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon Redshift not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp","question":"What security certifications does Amazon Redshift have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Amazon Redshift is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","question":"Where is Amazon Redshift available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source analytical database designed for real-time and batch analytics that can run from a single laptop to distributed clusters across multiple cloud providers. It supports industry-standard formats like Iceberg, uses a Postgres-compatible SQL dialect, and offers per-second billing with no fixed costs. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://www.firebolt.io/pricing","question":"What is Firebolt?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Firebolt offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.03 per gb per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.firebolt.io","question":"Is Firebolt free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Firebolt supports the web, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.firebolt.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Firebolt support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Firebolt can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.firebolt.io/pricing","question":"Can Firebolt be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Firebolt, including Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Salesforce, RudderStack, Onfire, Calendly and Cal.com, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.firebolt.io/pricing","question":"What does Firebolt integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Firebolt. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Firebolt not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.firebolt.io/security","question":"What security certifications does Firebolt have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Firebolt is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States, the EU and the United Kingdom.","source":"https://www.firebolt.io/pricing","question":"Where is Firebolt available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A managed cloud data warehouse that combines traditional warehouse analytics with data lake query capabilities through a unified SQL engine, powered by AWS Graviton processors for high performance and cost efficiency. | An open-source analytical database designed for real-time and batch analytics that can run from a single laptop to distributed clusters across multiple cloud providers. It supports industry-standard formats like Iceberg, uses a Postgres-compatible SQL dialect, and offers per-second billing with no fixed costs. |
| features.capabilities | `{"in_db_ml":true,"deployment":"managed","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"separated","data_sharing":true,"compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"proprietary","table_formats":"Iceberg, Parquet","semi_structured":"functional","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"}` | `{"in_db_ml":true,"deployment":"hybrid","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"separated","compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Iceberg, DuckLake","semi_structured":"first_class","streaming_ingest":true,"concurrency_scaling":"manual"}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 4 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"Streaming services"},{"name":"Operational databases"},{"name":"Amazon MSK","native":true,"category":"streaming","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Copilot"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"RudderStack"},{"name":"Onfire"},{"name":"Calendly"},{"name":"Cal.com"},{"name":"Smartlead"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Tableau Cloud","native":true,"category":"analytics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Iceberg","native":true,"category":"data_format","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"S3","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Kafka","direction":"outbound"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Provisioned On-Demand","features":["Flexible scaling","Pause and resume","Node type selection","Elastic Resize"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0.543,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Hourly billing for provisioned clusters with no long-term commitments; can pause/resume to avoid charges","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Provisioned Reserved Instances","features":["Significant discounts over on-demand","Steady-state workloads","Cost predictability"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Discounted pricing for reserved capacity with annual or multi-year commitment","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Serverless","features":["Automatic capacity scaling","No idle charges","Seconds-based billing","Automatic shutdown"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":1.5,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Per-second billing with automatic scaling; no compute charges during idle periods","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Serverless Reservations","features":["Up to 45% savings on Serverless compute","Cross-account sharing","AWS payer account management"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Discounted Serverless rates; shareable across AWS accounts at the payer account level","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Redshift Managed Storage (RMS)"},{"name":"Concurrency Scaling"},{"name":"Redshift Spectrum"},{"name":"Redshift ML"}],"summary":"Provisioned from $0.543/hour on-demand or discounted reserved rates; Serverless from $1.50/hour per-second billing. Free $300 credit for 90 days on new Serverless accounts.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:27:34.606Z","freeTrialDays":90,"startingPrice":{"amount":0.543,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","hour","second"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","summary":"Free self-hosted","features":["self-hosted","no limits"],"description":"Self-hosted, fully open source, no limits","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Managed Service","summary":"From $0.92/hr per node + $0.0264/GB·mo storage. Includes $200 free credits.","features":["per-second billing","auto-scaling","auto start/resume","scale to zero","workload isolation","online version upgrades"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"S node","amount":0.92,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"metered","unit":"gb","amount":0.0264,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Cloud-managed analytical database with per-second billing","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"free_credits":"$200"}},{"free":false,"name":"Bring Your Own Cloud","description":"Managed service on your cloud infrastructure","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open-source self-hosted option, or managed service from $0.92/hr per node + $0.0264/GB·mo. Includes $200 free credits.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.firebolt.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:40:52.479Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.0264,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"PCI-DSS","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA/HITECH","status":"active"},{"name":"FedRAMP","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"},{"name":"FIPS 140-3","status":"active"},{"name":"NIST 800-171","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27018","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA Business Associate","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp | https://www.firebolt.io/security |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Amazon Redshift | Firebolt |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed cloud | Hybrid |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute | Separated storage/compute |
| Compute model | Clusters | Clusters |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | Vendor-specific | Vendor-specific |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | - |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Iceberg, Parquet | Iceberg, DuckLake |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | Automatic | Manual |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | Functional | First-class |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Permissive OSS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:06:21.527Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*