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Activate
Discovery, source integration, Knob definition, security alignment, evaluation, testing, and production launch.
Customer-owned cloud, data & AIKeep your stack.
Keep your stack.
Add the intelligence and control layer.
Deploy DataKnobs and EKIP inside your approved cloud, data platform, model environment, IAM, network, and security boundary. You keep provider contracts and infrastructure spend; DataKnobs supplies governed Data Products, Knobs, evaluation, lineage, monitoring, and optimization.
Customer-controlled infrastructureProvider bills stay directEnterprise security integration
How pricing works
Price the intelligence layer—not every user interaction.
The commercial model separates one-time implementation from recurring platform value and keeps cloud, warehouse, GPU, and model-provider consumption in the customer's own accounts.
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Subscribe
Annual DataKnobs / EKIP platform license based primarily on production Data Products and governed intelligence capacity.
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Operate
Use your existing cloud, warehouse, lakehouse, networking, observability, and approved model contracts.
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Expand
Add Data Products, Knob capacity, environments, connectors, governance workflows, or support as adoption grows.
Pricing units
Know what a Data Product and a governed Knob mean commercially.
DP
Production Data Product
A governed intelligence asset with a defined business purpose, owners, source boundaries, output contract, quality controls, and lifecycle.
K
Governed Knob
An explicit adjustable control—such as data selection, model choice, threshold, prompt, tool access, autonomy, policy, or evaluation setting—that can be measured and governed.
E
Environment
A distinct production or non-production runtime boundary with its own configuration, access, release, and operational controls.
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Support & services
Architecture, custom connectors, regulated controls, migration, SLAs, and delivery services can add scope beyond the standard platform plan.
Annual platform subscription
Start with one production intelligence asset; expand as value grows.
Published prices assume customer-owned cloud, data, and model infrastructure. Provider consumption is not included in the DataKnobs subscription.
Launch
For one focused production deployment in a high-value domain.
$36Kper year
Annual DataKnobs platform subscription
Start with Launch- 1 production AI Data Product
- Up to 50 active governed Knobs
- 1 production + 1 non-production environment
- Standard platform connectors
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Email support
Business
For a business unit operationalizing intelligence across related workflows.
$96Kper year
Annual DataKnobs platform subscription
Choose Business- Up to 3 production AI Data Products
- Up to 250 active governed Knobs
- Standard SDLC environments
- Advanced lineage, evaluation, and audit views
- Experiment and optimization tracking
- Priority support and quarterly reviews
Scale
For multiple domains, teams, and governed AI applications.
$225Kper year
Annual DataKnobs platform subscription
Contact Sales- Up to 10 production AI Data Products
- Up to 1,000 active governed Knobs
- Multiple business domains and environments
- Advanced governance and approval workflows
- SSO/SAML, RBAC, and audit support
- Dedicated success and architecture support
Enterprise
For regulated, mission-critical, or portfolio-wide deployment.
Customenterprise agreement
Annual DataKnobs platform subscription
Contact Sales- Custom Data Product portfolio
- Custom Knob capacity and environments
- Private or dedicated deployment
- Custom security and compliance controls
- Custom connectors and integrations
- Enterprise SLA and support
Planning prices shown in USD. Taxes, marketplace charges, custom security/compliance requirements, bespoke connectors, and professional services are outside the standard subscription unless included in an order form.
One-time activation
Make implementation scope visible instead of hiding it in the subscription.
Activation covers the work required to convert a use case into a governed production asset inside your environment.
Standard
$15K–$30K
Focused Data Product using established sources and standard integration patterns.
Advanced
$30K–$75K
Multi-source solution with custom transformations, workflow integration, or more advanced evaluations.
Enterprise / regulated
$75K–$150K+
Mission-critical implementation requiring deeper security, compliance, private deployment, scale, or rollout engineering.
Responsibility split
You operate the infrastructure; DataKnobs operates the intelligence layer.
Customer provides and pays for
- Cloud compute, storage, networking, and private connectivity
- Data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Fabric, or databases
- LLM, embedding, model endpoint, GPU, and inference consumption
- Third-party data, API, and software licenses
- Customer-selected observability, security, and enterprise platform services
DataKnobs provides
- Data Product and Knob management
- Governance, lineage, evaluation, monitoring, and audit controls
- Model-routing, caching, sampling, threshold, and cost-policy controls where configured
- Experimentation, diagnostics, and continuous optimization workflows
- Platform support according to the purchased plan
DataKnobs does not include undisclosed percentage markups in customer-owned provider bills.
Plan comparison
Choose the operating level—not just a feature bundle.
| Capability | Launch | Business | Scale | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Production Data Products | 1 | Up to 3 | Up to 10 | Custom |
| Active governed Knobs | Up to 50 | Up to 250 | Up to 1,000 | Custom |
| Customer-owned cloud / LLM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Governance & evaluations | Standard | Advanced | Advanced | Custom |
| Environments | 2 | Standard SDLC | Multiple | Custom |
| SSO / SAML / advanced RBAC | Not standard | Optional | Included | Included |
| Private / dedicated deployment patterns | Not standard | Optional | Optional | Included / custom |
| Support | Priority | Dedicated | Enterprise SLA |
FAQ
Common customer-owned pricing questions.
Why pay a platform fee if we provide the infrastructure?
Infrastructure runs the workload. The DataKnobs subscription covers governed Data Products, Knobs, lineage, evaluation, monitoring, experimentation, optimization, and the management layer that makes intelligence reusable across applications and workflows.
Who pays for cloud, warehouse, and LLM usage?
The customer contracts with and pays its selected cloud, data-platform, model, GPU, and third-party providers directly.
Does DataKnobs charge per user or per agent?
These plans are primarily priced around production Data Products and governed intelligence capacity rather than seats. Final order terms can include additional limits or service dimensions where required.
What counts as one production Data Product?
A production Data Product is a governed intelligence asset with a defined business purpose, owners, source boundaries, output contract, quality controls, and lifecycle. Materially different output contracts or unrelated domains may be scoped as separate Data Products.
Why is activation separate from the annual subscription?
Activation covers one-time work such as discovery, integration, configuration, evaluation, security alignment, testing, and launch. Separating it keeps implementation effort distinct from recurring platform value.
Can DataKnobs provide managed infrastructure later?
Yes. A customer-owned deployment can be complemented or replaced by a separately scoped DataKnobs-managed environment when the workload and commercial requirements make that useful.
Are the published prices final?
They are planning prices and ranges. Final terms depend on production scope, integrations, environments, security, compliance, support, and the definition of governed Data Products and Knobs.
Keep control of your infrastructure. Increase the value of the intelligence running on it.
Start with one high-value Data Product, define the knobs and controls that matter, and reuse governed intelligence across applications, assistants, agents, and workflows.
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