Data Science & ML Pricing

All-Purpose Compute for Interactive Workloads

Run interactive data science and machine learning workloads. Also good for data engineering, BI and data analytics.

	All-Purpose Compute	All-Purpose Compute Photon
Managed Apache Spark
Photon Engine (Massively parallel processing)
Job Scheduling with Libraries
Job Scheduling with Notebooks
Autopilot Clusters
Databricks Runtime for ML
Managed MLflow
Delta Lake with Delta Engine
Notebooks and Collaboration
Ecosystem Integrations
Broad Support of Different VM Instance Types	Yes (See the Pricing calculator for hourly DBU emission by instance type)	Yes (DBU emission rate 2.0x vs. non-Photon. See the Pricing calculator.)
Governance and Manageability	See Platform Capabilities and Add-Ons for details
Enterprise Security	See Platform Capabilities and Add-Ons for details

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What is Photon?

Photon is the next-generation engine on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform that provides extremely fast query performance at low cost.