Alibaba DataWorks
- Features
- Ease of use
- Ease of management
- Quality of support
- Affordability
- Market presence
Free TrialFree version
- Retail and wholesale
- Accommodation and food services
- Transportation and logistics
What is Alibaba DataWorks
Integrated orchestration and scheduling
Strong Alibaba Cloud integration
Built-in governance and metadata
Ecosystem and portability constraints
Not a standalone warehouse engine
Learning curve and role complexity
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | Basic development, data migration, simple scheduling and lightweight governance (free edition). |
| Standard | USD 387/month | Subscription edition for small enterprises and production use; annual discounts available. |
| Professional | USD 774/month | Adds enterprise features for SMEs and high-SLA scenarios (security, collaboration, advanced APIs). |
| Enterprise | USD 3,096/month | Enterprise-grade edition with full lifecycle governance, CloudSSO support, and advanced customization. |
Usage-based / Add-on billable items (official documentation):
Scheduling (task instances) — Tiered, daily billing based on number of successful instances per day; first 1–10 successful instances/day are free; higher tiers billed (examples shown on docs: 11–500: USD 0.15/day, 501–5,000: USD 9.29/day, up to multi-thousand‑USD tiers for very large volumes).
Data Quality checks — Pay-as-you-go with daily billing; free quota: 10 successful instances/day; tiered pricing for additional runs (e.g., 11–200: USD 3.10; 201–1,000: USD 7.74; larger tiers listed in official docs).
Serverless resource groups (Subscription & Pay-as-you-go options) — Subscription model priced per CU (compute unit) per month; example monthly unit prices vary by region (US (Virginia): USD 53.92014 per Month/CU; China regions lower in CNY converted to USD on purchase). A minimum purchase of 2 CUs is required for subscription resource groups. Pay-as-you-go serverless resource groups also support free trial/deduction packages for new users.
API / OpenAPI calls — Each edition has a monthly free API quota (Basic: 3,100 calls/month; Standard: 31,000; Professional: 310,000; Enterprise: 1,000,000). After free quota, Enterprise supports pay-as-you-go (e.g., USD 0.05 per 10,000 calls for most regions).
Notes: Discounts may apply for annual billing and regional price conversions are applied on the international site. Some modules (e.g., Data Modeling) are billed separately. All figures and tier breakpoints are taken from Alibaba Cloud's official DataWorks documentation pages.
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