Atlan Pricing: Atlan Data Catalog Cost per Year, per Seat and per Connector
Atlan does not publish a price on its website or on AWS Marketplace. It did publish one rate card, in a document filed with the UK Government Digital Marketplace on 30 April 2024. Every figure below is read from that document, and it is several times higher than the ranges circulating on page one of Google.
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Atlan costs £110,000 a year for the Advanced platform tier and £300,000 for Enterprise, roughly $148,700 and $405,500, before a single user license is added. Seats are charged on top at £2,388 per Admin, £1,188 per Insights user, £588 per Member and £60 per Guest, and connectors beyond the bundled five cost £1,000 per month each. Those figures come from Atlan's own pricing document filed with the UK Government Digital Marketplace on 30 April 2024, which is the only complete Atlan rate card published anywhere. A mid-size deployment with 20 Insights users, 100 Members and 200 Guests reaches about £205,000, close to $277,000 a year.
Atlan platform pricing: two tiers, both six figures
The filed document shows two platform tiers and no free or self-serve plan. Both are quoted as "starting at", so they are a floor. USD conversions use 1 GBP = 1.3518 USD, read 10 September 2026, and are indicative only: the contract is denominated in the currency you sign in.
| Tier | Annual platform fee | Approx. USD | What is bundled | Capabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced | £110,000 | ~$148,700 | Up to 10 Admins, up to 5 connectors. Non-production instance is a paid add-on | Catalog, glossary, column-level lineage, collaboration integrations, automation, advanced governance and security, data quality via Monte Carlo or Soda integration |
| Enterprise | £300,000 | ~$405,500 | Up to 10 Admins, unlimited connectors, 1 non-production instance, Enterprise Support SLAs | Everything in Advanced, plus Atlan AI |
Both tiers bundle up to 10 Admins and nothing else. Every analyst, steward and business reader is licensed separately. On a 300-person rollout the seats can approach the platform fee on their own.
Advanced bundles five connectors; a sixth costs £12,000 a year. At roughly sixteen connectors the add-on fees alone exceed the £190,000 gap to Enterprise, which is where unlimited connectors live.
Third-party sites describe Atlan free and Team plans. No Atlan document we can find publishes them. We will not repeat a number the vendor has not printed.
Atlan cost per user: four license classes, charged on top of the platform
Atlan splits users by what they are allowed to change. The gap between the cheapest and dearest seat is 40 times, so how you classify your population moves the contract more than any discount you negotiate on the platform line.
| License | Per user per year | Approx. USD | What that seat can do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admin | £2,388 | ~$3,228 | Full control: users, groups, access policies, SSO, API tokens, workflows, classifications |
| Insights | £1,188 | ~$1,606 | Everything a Member can do, plus running, scheduling and collaborating on SQL queries |
| Member | £588 | ~$795 | Manage glossary categories and terms, preview assets, edit metadata through personas and policies |
| Guest | £60 | ~$81 | Read and suggest only: view basic metadata, suggest changes, create Jira issues, share to Slack |
The Guest seat at £60 is the one to understand properly. It is genuinely cheap, and it is also read-and-suggest only: a Guest cannot run a query, manage a glossary term or edit metadata directly. Atlan's own permission matrix puts the ability to run and schedule queries at the Insights level, twenty times the price.
A worked example for a mid-size US data team
Take a company with a ten-person platform team, twenty analysts who write SQL, a hundred people who curate and consume documented assets, and two hundred business readers. That is a normal, unremarkable catalog rollout, and it is the size most of the circulating estimates claim to describe.
| Line item | Quantity | Unit | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced platform (includes 10 Admins, 5 connectors) | 1 | £110,000 | £110,000 |
| Insights seats (analysts who run SQL) | 20 | £1,188 | £23,760 |
| Member seats (curators and consumers) | 100 | £588 | £58,800 |
| Guest seats (business readers) | 200 | £60 | £12,000 |
| Total before add-ons | £204,560 (~$276,500) | ||
| With Atlan AI added | 1 | £24,000 | £228,560 (~$309,000) |
Add Advanced Support at 20% of contract value and that becomes roughly £274,000, about $371,000, in year one. Compare that with the figures on page one of Google for the same query: $18,000 a year at 50 users, $25,000 to $50,000 for 20 to 30 users, $50,000 to $150,000 for a mid-size organization. None of those sources cite a rate card. The gap is not small, and it is the kind of gap that ends a budget conversation badly if you carried the wrong number into it.
The line items that are not in the platform fee
Three of these are bundled into Enterprise and priced separately on Advanced, which is the real economic difference between the tiers. Advanced Support is the one most often missed in a first quote, because it is expressed as a percentage rather than an amount.
| Add-on | List price | Approx. USD | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connectors | £1,000 per month, each | ~$1,352 per month | Billed monthly per connector. A connector used against several instances still counts once |
| Atlan AI | £24,000 per year | ~$32,444 | Included in Enterprise. A separate line item on Advanced |
| Non-production instance | £18,000 per year | ~$24,333 | Included in Enterprise. A separate line item on Advanced |
| Additional connectors package | £12,000 per year | ~$16,222 | The annual packaged form of the monthly connector fee |
| Custom branding (URL, logo) | £12,000 per year | ~$16,222 | White-labeling the tenant is a paid add-on, not a configuration setting |
| Advanced Support | 20% of contract value | Scales with spend | 24x7 cover, 2-hour first response on P0, architecture review, unlimited Atlan University access |
Technical account management, priced in dollars
The TAM tiers are the one part of the document quoted in USD rather than GBP. Dividing each package by the hours it promises gives an effective hourly rate that Atlan does not print, and it runs the opposite way to what you would expect: the largest engagement is the cheapest per hour.
| Engagement | Cadence | Estimated time | Price | Effective rate per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAM Level 1 | 1 meeting per week | 2 hours per week | $30,000 | $288 |
| TAM Level 2 | 2 meetings per week | 4 hours per week | $50,000 | $240 |
| TAM Level 3 | 3 meetings per week | 6 hours per week | $70,000 | $224 |
| TAM Level 4 | 4 meetings per week | 8 hours per week | $90,000 | $216 |
Rates computed by dividing each package by its stated hours per week across 52 weeks. The spread runs from $288 down to $216 an hour, a 25% volume discount that only appears once you do the division. For context, Collibra's equivalent coaching service is priced directly at £275 an hour, about $372.
Is Atlan cheaper than Collibra? Not at list
Both vendors filed a full rate card on the same UK government framework in the same week of April 2024, Collibra on the 25th and Atlan on the 30th. That makes this the only genuinely like-for-like public comparison of the two, and it runs against the usual story that Atlan is the lighter, cheaper, modern option.
| Line | Atlan | Collibra | Who is cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry platform tier | Advanced, £110,000 | Standard, £96,541 | Collibra is 12% cheaper at the entry tier |
| Top platform tier | Enterprise, £300,000 | Ultimate, £232,239 | Collibra is 23% cheaper at the top tier |
| Admin / Creator seat | £2,388 | £3,565 | Atlan is cheaper per power user |
| Light paid seat | Member £588 | Contributor £615 | Effectively level |
| Read-only seat | Guest, £60 per year | View-Only, no charge | Collibra does not charge for viewers at all |
| Extra connector | £12,000 per year | £8,195 per year | Collibra is cheaper per connector |
| Non-production instance | £18,000 per year | £16,300 per year | Comparable |
| AI module | Atlan AI, £24,000 per year | AI Governance, £81,946 for 20 creators | Atlan AI is far cheaper, and is bundled in Enterprise |
| Implementation | Priced after scoping | Rapid Start, £33,000 or £58,000 | Collibra publishes fixed implementation packages |
Collibra's Standard package is £96,541 and bundles 20 Creator users, 1.16 million assets and a non-production platform. Atlan's Advanced is £110,000 and bundles 10 Admins. But Collibra charges £3,565 for an extra Creator against Atlan's £2,388 Admin, so the ranking flips as the population grows.
Collibra states plainly that there is no charge for View-Only users and that many customers open the system to everyone. Atlan charges £60 per Guest. On 2,000 business readers that is £120,000 a year at Atlan and nothing at Collibra, which can outweigh every other line on the page.
Both figures are April 2024 list prices from public filings and neither vendor sells directly on that framework today. We publish them as dated anchors, not as current quotes. The fuller side-by-side is in Atlan vs Collibra, and Collibra's own US rate card, more than 150 line items from the GSA schedule, is tabulated in Collibra pricing.
Buying a catalog to get at lineage is an expensive way to get lineage
Atlan is a strong product and this page is not an argument that it is overpriced. If your organization needs a governance program, a business glossary the whole company agrees on, stewardship workflows and a discovery layer, then a six-figure catalog is the shape of that purchase and Atlan is a credible answer to it. Plenty of teams get exactly that value out of it.
The mismatch shows up somewhere more specific. A large share of the teams who end up pricing Atlan are not trying to run a governance program at all. They got here because a column changed and three dashboards broke, or because nobody could say what a table feeds before deleting it, or because a model went stale overnight and the first people to notice were in the weekly business review. Those are lineage and reliability problems. A catalog contains the answer, but you are buying the whole program to reach one capability inside it, and then licensing every reader who needs to look at it.
Datatrail is built the other way round. It connects to Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery with a read-only role, parses query history and dbt artifacts into column-level lineage that maintains itself, and derives everything else from that graph. Open any column and see downstream impact analysis, every model, exposure and dashboard that reads it, before you merge the change. Freshness monitoring and schema change alerts run on the same graph, so an alert arrives ranked by what it actually breaks. There is no glossary to curate first and nothing to roll out before it is useful.
It is a narrower product and that is the point of it. If you want the full catalog and governance story, read our Atlan alternatives comparison, which covers what Atlan does genuinely well. If your shortlist is broader, the field is mapped in data catalog tools and data lineage tools, and the category distinction itself is unpacked in data lineage vs data catalog. Our own price is on the pricing page, in public, which is the whole reason this page had to be researched rather than quoted.
Atlan pricing questions buyers actually ask
How much does Atlan cost?
Atlan's own filed rate card puts the platform at £110,000 a year for the Advanced tier and £300,000 for Enterprise, roughly $148,700 and $405,500. That is the platform fee alone. User licenses are charged on top at £2,388 for an Admin, £1,188 for an Insights user, £588 for a Member and £60 for a Guest, and connectors beyond the bundled five cost £1,000 per month each. A realistic mid-size deployment lands near £205,000, about $277,000 a year.
Does Atlan publish its pricing?
Not on its own website and not on AWS Marketplace. We re-checked the Marketplace listing on 10 September 2026 and it still carries no rate card at all, only a "Request private offer" button and the line that pricing depends on your specific requirements. The one place Atlan did publish a full rate card is a pricing document it filed with the UK Government Digital Marketplace on 30 April 2024, which remains public.
What is Atlan's pricing model?
Five separate charges stack: a base platform fee by tier, per-seat user licenses in four classes, a monthly fee per connector, optional add-on packages such as Atlan AI and non-production instances, and services. The structure matters more than any single number, because the platform fee is the floor rather than the price. Seats and connectors are what make two deployments of the same tier cost very different amounts.
Is Atlan cheaper than Collibra?
At list, no. Both vendors filed rate cards on the same UK government framework within five days of each other in April 2024. Atlan's entry platform is £110,000 against Collibra Standard at £96,541, so Atlan is about 12% more expensive to start, and at the top tier Atlan Enterprise is £300,000 against Collibra Ultimate at £232,239. Atlan is cheaper per power-user seat and dramatically cheaper on AI, and Collibra charges nothing at all for read-only viewers.
Does Atlan have a free tier?
The filed rate card shows only two platform tiers, Advanced and Enterprise, and no free or self-serve plan. Several third-party sites describe an Atlan free tier or a low-cost Team plan. Those figures do not appear in any document Atlan has published, so treat them as unverified. If a free starting point matters to you, that is a real difference between Atlan and tools that publish a public price and let you start without a sales call.
Why do other sites say Atlan costs $25,000 a year?
Because they are estimating from deal data or from other people's estimates, not from a rate card. The ranges circulating on page one of Google run from $18,000 a year at 50 users to $150,000 for a mid-size organization, and they contradict each other. Atlan's own filing puts the platform floor near $148,700 before a single non-admin seat is licensed. Negotiated deals are certainly smaller than list, but list is the anchor you negotiate against.
How much do Atlan connectors cost?
Connectors are £1,000 per month each, about $1,352, on top of the platform fee. The Advanced tier bundles five; Enterprise bundles unlimited connectors, which is the single clearest reason a large estate jumps tier. One useful detail from the filing: a connector used against several instances or connections only counts once, so the meter is connector types, not connections.
Is the Atlan pricing document still current?
It is dated 30 April 2024 and it is the most recent rate card Atlan has published anywhere. Atlan no longer sells directly through that framework: searching it today returns only resellers such as Valcon, Coforge and Reply on G-Cloud 15. Treat the figures as a dated list-price anchor rather than today's quote, and expect the shape of the model to have survived even if the numbers have moved.
What should I ask Atlan in a pricing conversation?
Ask which tier the quote sits in and what the platform fee is before seats. Ask how many connectors are bundled and what each additional one costs. Ask whether Atlan AI and the non-production instance are included or added. Ask whether Advanced Support at 20% of contract value is in the number you are looking at. Those four questions separate a headline figure from what you will actually pay in year one.
What does Atlan cost compared to Alation?
Alation is the one enterprise catalog that does publish a transactable price: its AWS Marketplace listing showed $60,000 for 12 months when we re-checked it on 10 September 2026, though the listing sells an undefined "unit" and states no entitlement. Atlan publishes nothing on Marketplace. Comparing Alation's $60,000 against Atlan's filed £110,000 platform floor is not quite like for like, because the Alation listing does not say how many seats or sources it covers.
Where these numbers came from
Enterprise data vendors that refuse to publish a price on their own websites frequently file a complete rate card with public procurement frameworks, because the framework requires one. The UK Government Digital Marketplace publishes those filings as open PDFs. That is where Atlan's rate card is, filed for G-Cloud 14 on 30 April 2024.
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curl -sL "$BASE/g-cloud-14/documents/703311/\
751541331504885-pricing-document-2024-04-30-1721.pdf" -o atlan.pdfThe Collibra figures used in the comparison come from the equivalent filing dated 25 April 2024, document 709961/493408097980343 on the same host. We also re-checked both vendors on AWS Marketplace on 10 September 2026 by dumping the rendered DOM: Alation's listing returns a real rate of $60,000.00 for a 12-month term, and Atlan's returns no rate card at all, only "Request private offer" and the line that pricing is based on your specific requirements.
Four limits, stated plainly. The Atlan document is dated 30 April 2024 and Atlan no longer sells directly through that framework, so these are a dated anchor rather than a live quote. The prices are denominated in GBP for a UK public-sector framework, and US commercial pricing may differ in both level and structure. USD conversions use 1 GBP = 1.3518 USD read on 10 September 2026 and move with the exchange rate. And list is not what anyone pays: enterprise catalog deals are negotiated, and the discount is exactly why knowing the list anchor is worth something.
If you are checking our work, both PDFs are public and neither is behind a login. Where our figures and a vendor quote disagree, the vendor quote is the one that governs your contract. What a rate card gives you is the number to start from.
Related pages
What Atlan does genuinely well, why teams shortlist something else, and who the real competitors are.
The two enterprise catalogs compared on capability and on both published rate cards.
Collibra's itemized packages, per-user rates and module fees, from its own filings and Marketplace listing.
The other name on most catalog shortlists, priced against Atlan on what each vendor publishes.
The wider field, including the open source options and what each one is genuinely best at.
The per-asset and per-processing-unit rates, read from Microsoft's public price API.
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