Apache Pinot Cluster
Indicative from-price range
Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Apache Pinot Cluster on 5 servers: about $120 to $561 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Dataset size (GB): 500; Peak queries per second: 1000; Ingestion rate (events/second): 100000; Number of tables: 10). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $120 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $245 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $317 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $320 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $331 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $331 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $1,311 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).
Reference workload
- Dataset size (GB): 500
- Peak queries per second: 1000
- Ingestion rate (events/second): 100000
- Number of tables: 10
Methodology
This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 5, the smallest baseline topology (minimal-cluster). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.
Price sources
- Amazon Web Services: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json
- DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
- Google Cloud: https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus
- Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json
- Microsoft Azure: https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices
- OVHcloud: https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR
- Servers.com: https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal
Size Apache Pinot Cluster for your own workloadMarkdown versionFor AI agents (llms.txt)
Apache Pinot is a distributed OLAP data store built for low-latency analytical queries over both real-time streaming data and batch data, originally developed at LinkedIn to power user-facing analytics.
Baseline topologies
| Topology | Minimum nodes | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| minimal-cluster | 5 | pinot-controller, pinot-broker, pinot-server, pinot-zookeeper |
| scaled-cluster | 8 | pinot-controller, pinot-broker, pinot-server, pinot-minion, pinot-zookeeper |
What drives the cost
- Dataset size (GB)
- Total dataset size across all tables. Drives server storage and memory for segment loading.
- Peak queries per second
- Peak query rate for user-facing analytics. Drives broker and server CPU requirements.
- Ingestion rate (events/second)
- Peak real-time event ingestion rate. Drives server real-time segment creation and memory.
Where it runs
bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm
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