# Apache Superset

Source: https://calc.onpremeasy.com/product/superset/

## Indicative from-price range

Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Apache Superset on 2 servers: about $48 to $224 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Peak concurrent users: 20; Celery async query workers: 4). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $48 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $98 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $127 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $128 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $132 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $133 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $524 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).

Reference workload:
- Peak concurrent users: 20
- Celery async query workers: 4

Price snapshot: 2026-10-19. Currency: USD. FX snapshot: 2026-10-19.

Configuration: Low end: 2 x basic-2vcpu-4gb (DigitalOcean, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, about $24 per server per month). High end: 2 x rise-m (OVHcloud, 12 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, about $112 per server per month).

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 2, the smallest baseline topology (web-plus-celery). 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)

Apache Superset is a web-based data exploration and visualization platform for building charts and dashboards on top of SQL-speaking databases. It offers both a no-code chart builder and a full in-browser SQL IDE, so analysts and engineers can share the same set of connected data sources.

## What gets deployed with it

- PostgreSQL HA Cluster (required): Superset requires a durable relational database for metadata, chart definitions, dashboard state, and user accounts. SQLite is not supported for production; PostgreSQL is the recommended backend.
- Redis Cluster (required): Redis is required both as the Celery broker for async query execution and as the query result cache backend. Without Redis, async queries and chart caching are unavailable.

## Baseline topologies

- web-plus-celery: 2 nodes minimum; roles: superset-web, superset-celery-worker
- web-plus-celery-scaled: 3 nodes minimum; roles: superset-web, superset-celery-worker

## What drives the cost

- Peak concurrent users: Expected peak number of users loading dashboards or running SQL lab queries simultaneously; drives Superset web worker sizing.
- Celery async query workers: Number of Celery worker processes handling async SQL queries and chart refresh tasks; the primary scale axis for query-heavy deployments.

## Frequently asked questions

### How much does it cost to self-host Apache Superset?

Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Apache Superset on 2 servers: about $48 to $224 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Peak concurrent users: 20; Celery async query workers: 4). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $48 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $98 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $127 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $128 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $132 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $133 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $524 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west). This is an automatically generated indicative figure from public price lists (price snapshot 2026-10-19), not a quote.

### What drives the cost of self-hosting Apache Superset?

The sizing inputs the calculator uses for Apache Superset are: Peak concurrent users; Celery async query workers. Cost also depends on the number of servers and the provider chosen.

### What is the minimum number of servers for Apache Superset?

The smallest baseline topology in the calculator's profile for Apache Superset is web-plus-celery (2 servers). Other baseline topologies: web-plus-celery-scaled (3 servers minimum). The reference range above is computed for 2 servers.

Size Apache Superset for your own workload: https://calc.onpremeasy.com/?product=superset

## Sources

- https://superset.apache.org/
- https://github.com/apache/superset
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Superset