Data Lakehouse TCO
Why pay more for the same lakehouse?
Storage and compute are commodities. See the math behind four vendor stacks at your scale.
At 100 GB stored, 1.0 TB processed/mo, and 30 people — the same lakehouse costs $41,478 over 5 yrs on Microsoft and $9,486 over 5 yrs on Firestream. That's a 77% difference for identical capability.
OneLake + Fabric + Power BI
$41,478
5-yr TCO≈ $691/mo
Recommended stack5-yr
Storage
Processing
Seats
Platform
Fabric F2
BigQuery + Dataplex + Looker
$264,486
5-yr TCO≈ $4,408/mo
Recommended stack5-yr
Storage
Processing
Seats
Platform
Cloud Composer (Small) + Looker
S3 + Glue + Athena/Redshift + QuickSight
$29,838
5-yr TCO≈ $497/mo
Recommended stack5-yr
Storage
Processing
Seats
Platform
QuickSight + Glue catalog
Firestream
Open reference architectureLowest cost
Apache Airflow + Superset (OSS, on K3s)
$9,486
5-yr TCO≈ $158/mo
Recommended stack5-yr
Storage
Processing
Seats
Platform
1 small VM
Methodology
We multiply your sliders by each vendor's published rates and add their platform and per-seat fees. Rates as of mid-2026.
Directional estimate for comparison only. Not a quote. Cloud pricing changes frequently and varies by region, commitment, and negotiated discount. Verify on each vendor's pricing page before any decision. Rates as of mid-2026.