# Amazon Redshift vs Firebolt

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Firebolt

| Attribute | Amazon Redshift | Firebolt |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 55 (73% (medium)) | 62.2 (69% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-based data warehouse available in provisioned and serverless deployment models, supporting SQL analytics across data warehouses and data lakes. Redshift integrates with SageMaker for AI workloads and connects to S3 and third-party data sources via zero-ETL integrations. | High-performance open-source analytical database supporting real-time analytics and batch processing. Runs as a single binary on laptops and scales to hundreds of nodes and petabytes in the cloud with per-second billing. |
| 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"}` | `{"deployment":"hybrid","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"separated","compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Iceberg, DuckLake","streaming_ingest":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 10 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"Streaming services"},{"name":"Operational databases"}]` | `[{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Copilot"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"RudderStack"},{"name":"Onfire"},{"name":"Calendly"},{"name":"Cal.com"},{"name":"Smartlead"},{"name":"Zapier"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":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 | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## 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 | - |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | Functional | - |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | ✓ | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:43:27.136Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*