Pricing
One platform fee for the whole stack.
The usual route is a warehouse, four or five tools around it, and someone to connect them. That is five contracts, five renewal dates, and most of them priced in units you have to convert before you know what you spent. Synopsis is one platform fee, scoped to how many systems we connect for you.
What is included
Everything below is in the platform fee.
Not an add-on, not a higher tier, not a separate contract. The right column is what most teams are paying for separately today, which is the part that makes the comparison honest.
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 you will not find on your invoice
No units you have to decode.
Databricks bills in DBUs. Snowflake bills in credits that convert to compute at a rate depending on edition, region and warehouse size. Ask a rep what one of those costs you in a month and watch how long the answer takes. Units like that are not an accident; they make the number hard to hold in your head.
Our commitment is legibility. Whatever appears on your invoice is something you can point at, explain to your CFO, and predict next quarter without a conversion table.
Storage
Your warehouse can grow without changing what you pay us.
Credits and DBUs
No invented unit standing between you and the number.
Per-seat licences
Everyone who needs an answer can get one.
Third-party implementation
We build it with your team, so there is no integrator statement of work.
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 do not hold a copy of your business and sell you access to it. Our security posture is published live rather than described.
How it starts
You are not billed until it is 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 to an outside integrator as a project plan. That is what keeps it from becoming another stalled data project, and it is why there is no third-party implementation fee to get started.
Questions
What am I actually paying for?
One platform fee covering the whole platform: the warehouse, connectors, modelling, the semantic layer, chat, dashboards, data apps, workflows and data science. There is no edition of Synopsis where half of it is switched off, so the question is never which features you bought.
Do I still need to buy other tools alongside it?
No, and this is usually the largest line in the comparison. Teams arriving from a traditional stack are paying separately for an ingestion tool, a transformation tool, a BI licence per seat, a reverse ETL tool and a notebook platform. All of that is inside the platform fee here.
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.
Do you charge for storage?
No. Storage is not billed. Your data sits in a warehouse in your own cloud account, so you keep the direct relationship with that provider, and your warehouse can grow without changing what you pay us.
Will I get an invoice full of units I have to decode?
No. Databricks bills in DBUs. Snowflake bills in credits that convert to compute at a rate depending on edition, region and warehouse size. Whatever appears on a Synopsis invoice is something you can point at and explain, without a conversion table in your other hand.
Is there an implementation fee?
There is no third-party implementation fee. We configure your warehouse together with your team rather than handing you to an outside systems integrator, so the statement of work that normally comes before anything works does not exist here.
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.
Is there a contract term?
Plans are annual by default. 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, meaning a warehouse, the tooling around it and the services to assemble them, against Synopsis. Competitor billing units are described from their published pricing documentation. 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 will come back with a scoped price.
