Pricing and ROI
SkillDatabases & dataExplain MotherDuck pricing and ROI tradeoffs. Use for any pricing, cost, billing, plan-comparison, instance-sizing, chargeback, or budget question — when an economic_buyer, technical_owner, or analytics_lead asks about spend, budget guardrails, workload cost drivers, plan fit, vendor cost comparison
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Then ask your AI: use the Pricing and ROI skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by motherduckdb/agent-skills in skills/motherduck-pricing-roi/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Source Of Truth
- Always verify current numbers, plan limits, and feature entitlements against the live public pricing page before answering.
- If the MotherDuck MCP
ask_docs_questionfeature is available, use it first for pricing-related documentation lookups. - Use the live pricing, Hypertenancy, and Trust & Security pages for exact commercial framing.
Default Posture
- Do not hardcode pricing numbers unless you have verified them in the current turn.
- When quoting numbers, include the verification date and the public source you checked.
- For estimates and comparisons, separate storage, compute, and operational overhead. A narrow price lookup needs only the relevant verified rate and conditions.
- Map workload shape to cost shape before comparing vendors or plans.
- Treat many pricing questions as risk, predictability, or procurement questions rather than purely technical ones.
- Verify plan-sensitive entitlements such as Flight scheduling/runtime limits, custom roles, table-level security, regions, and embedded features in the current turn; do not infer them from an older release note.
Workflow
- Identify the workload shape, team size, and comparison baseline.
- Determine whether the real concern is raw spend, predictability, procurement, or operational overhead.
- Map the workload to MotherDuck cost buckets and plan posture.
- Frame ROI in terms of systems replaced, complexity removed, and faster delivery.
- Call out what still needs live pricing-page or sales confirmation.
References
Read only the reference sections needed for the current task.
- Read
references/PRICING_ROI_PLAYBOOK.mdfor workload-to-cost mapping, publicly safe talking points, ROI framing, and what not to promise
Related Skills
Load related skills only for missing capabilities; reuse established context.
motherduck-connectwhen the pricing discussion depends on connection-path choicesmotherduck-security-governancewhen compliance, residency, or commercial controls affect ROImotherduck-build-cfa-appandmotherduck-build-dashboardwhen the economics depend on the application architecture
Signals
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- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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- github.com/motherduckdb/agent-skills