Pricing
Nothing up front. And a bill that doesn't climb with your data.
The traditional route — a warehouse, a stack of tools around it, and consultants to assemble them — front-loads a large implementation cost and then meters you forever. Synopsis has no implementation fee, and one platform fee that follows how many systems we connect, not how much data moves through them.
What determines your price
The work is in the joining, not the volume.
Connecting a system is the easy part. The work — and the cost — is modelling it, resolving its entities against everything else you run, and keeping that correct as your business changes.
How many we connect
Every source we ingest, model and keep in sync. This is the main driver of what you pay.
How hard they are to join
How much entity resolution it takes to make those systems agree on a customer, a job or a location.
How fast you need us
Standard, or the tighter response and named contacts larger teams ask for.
What your bill doesn't move with
We don't meter your data.
Storage
Your warehouse can grow without changing what you pay us.
Not meteredData transfer
Sync hourly or every few minutes, without watching a meter.
Not meteredRows and records
No monthly active rows. No bill that spikes because you had a good quarter.
Not meteredTokens and AI use
Using Synopsis more doesn't cost more. Fair-use limits apply.
Not billedOne platform fee covers all of it — the warehouse, connectors, modelling, the semantic layer, dashboards, data apps, workflows and data science.
Security and compliance
Your data stays in your warehouse.
Synopsis is SOC 2 Type II. Your data lands in a warehouse you own and can query directly — we don't hold a copy of your business to sell you access to it. Our security posture is published live rather than described.
How it starts
You're not billed until it's live.
We connect your systems and get the first answers out before you pay anything — that part is on us. Billing starts once your warehouse is running and your team is using it, not when you sign.
Every Synopsis warehouse is configured together with your team rather than handed over as a project plan. That's what keeps it from becoming another stalled data project.
Questions
Why doesn't the price scale with how much data I have?
Because that isn't where the work is. Loading rows is cheap; making five systems agree on what a customer is, and keeping that true as the business changes, is not. Pricing on volume would charge you most in the quarters you grew fastest, which is exactly backwards.
What makes one deployment cost more than another?
Mainly the number of systems we connect and model, and how much entity resolution it takes to reconcile them. A business running six systems with clean identifiers costs less to model than one running fifteen with none.
Are there costs on top — storage, egress, per-seat, AI usage?
No. Storage, data transfer, rows and records, and AI usage are not billed. Your data sits in a warehouse in your own cloud account, so you keep the direct relationship with that provider.
What does “start for free” actually mean?
We configure your warehouse with you before you pay anything — connecting your systems and getting the first answers out. That part is on us. Billing starts once it is live and your team is using it.
How long does it take to go live?
Days, not quarters. Every Synopsis warehouse is configured together with your team rather than handed to you as a project plan.
How does this compare to building it ourselves?
A warehouse plus the tooling around it plus the people to assemble them front-loads a large implementation cost before anything works, and then meters you as usage grows. Synopsis has no implementation fee and one platform fee that does not move with your data volume, so the money goes in at a different shape — nothing up front, and a flatter line afterwards.
Is there a contract term?
Plans are annual by default, which is what lets us hold the platform fee flat while your data grows. Ask us if you need something different for a first year.
What happens to my warehouse if we stop?
It is yours. The warehouse, the models and the data stay where they are — you are not renting access to your own business, so leaving does not mean starting over.
Why pay for this when I could point Claude at my systems with MCP?
For one question against one system, you should. The cost shows up when the answer has to span five systems that disagree about what a customer is — MCP can reach each system, but something still has to reconcile them, keep that reconciliation correct as the business changes, and make the result governed and repeatable. That is the part Synopsis does.
Why isn't there a self-serve checkout?
Because the answer depends on your systems, and we would rather scope it properly than sell you a tier that does not fit. Tell us what you run and we will come back with one number.
Cost comparison describes the shape of a typical build-it-yourself deployment — a warehouse, the tooling around it and the services to assemble them — against Synopsis. Your figures will depend on your systems and workload. Final pricing, term and scope are set in your order form. See our terms.
Want the number for your estate?
Tell us which systems you run and we'll come back with a scoped price.
