Great Expectations Pricing, GX Cloud Plans and GX Core Cost After the FICO Deal
The pricing page still offers GX Cloud for free. The product it sells stopped taking public customers on 1 June 2026, when FICO bought it, while Fivetran took over the open-source library. Here is what each part costs now, and what a team that relied on GX Cloud should budget for its replacement.
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GX Core, the Great Expectations open-source library, is free under Apache-2.0. GX Cloud listed a free Developer tier and "Custom" Team and Enterprise tiers, and never published a paid price. FICO acquired GX Cloud in May 2026 and it has not been publicly available since 1 June 2026, so today the only Great Expectations you can adopt is the free library, hosted and alerted by you or by another tool.
GX Core license, Apache-2.0
GX Cloud closed to the public, 2026
GX Core releases, May to Sep 2026
Paid GX Cloud price ever printed
Who owns Great Expectations now, and what each half costs
FICO bought the hosted product to become the data quality layer of FICO Platform. In the company's words, GX Cloud "will no longer be publicly available beginning June 1". Existing customers were contacted directly about timelines.
Fivetran, which is merging with dbt Labs, became steward of the open-source library and community. The GitHub repository now resolves to fivetran/great_expectations and the license is still Apache-2.0.
Four months later, greatexpectations.io/pricing still shows Developer as "Free" with a "Get started for free" button, while the app host behind it no longer resolves.
GX Cloud status, checked source by source
If you landed on the vendor's pricing page and filled in the Developer signup, this is why nothing happened. Each line below was checked on 30 September 2026.
| Where | What it shows | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing page | Still lists Developer, Team and Enterprise, with "Free" and "Get started for free" | Live on 30 Sep 2026 |
| GX Cloud FAQ | "How much does GX Cloud cost? Please visit our pricing page" | Live, no figure |
| GX blog, May 2026 | FICO acquires GX Cloud. "GX Cloud will no longer be publicly available beginning June 1" | Primary source |
| app.greatexpectations.io | The GX Cloud app host no longer resolves in DNS (NXDOMAIN) | Checked with Google DNS |
| GX Core on PyPI | 13 releases since May, latest 1.23.2 on 25 Sep 2026, Apache-2.0 | Actively shipped |
GX Cloud Developer vs Team vs Enterprise, and GX Core
These are the tier terms exactly as the Great Expectations pricing page and FAQ still state them. They matter now mainly as a checklist: they tell you which features your team was paying for, or would have paid for, and therefore what a replacement has to cover.
| Tier | Published price | Limits | What it included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | Free | 5 validated data assets a month, up to 3 users | Unlimited Expectations and validations, limited AI recommendations |
| Team | Custom (no figure) | Up to 10 users | Adds auditing and logging with 1 year of retention; professional services by quote |
| Enterprise | Custom (no figure) | Users by contract | Adds audit logs for the life of the term, a 99.5% uptime SLA and 5 hours of professional services a year |
| GX Core (open source) | $0 license | No limits | Apache-2.0 Python library, you host results, docs and alerting yourself |
GX Cloud priced on the number of data assets "actively under test, per month", not on rows, users or Expectations. Five tables validated in a month was the whole free allowance.
GX Cloud ran validations where the data lives, so warehouse credits for every check were on your bill before and after. That part of the cost does not change with the ownership.
One widely scraped guide says GX Cloud "starts at $499/month for 5 users". No Great Expectations page we could find says that, and Team was capped at 10 users, not 5.
GX Core cost and release cadence under Fivetran
The worry after any acquisition is that the free part quietly stops. The package data says otherwise: GX Core shipped 13 releases between 5 May and 25 September 2026, eleven of them after the 1 June handover, and the latest, 1.23.2, still carries the OSI Apache Software License classifier.
So the license stays $0. The real cost of GX Core is the work GX Cloud used to do for you: storing validation results, publishing Data Docs somewhere your team can read them, scheduling runs and routing failures to Slack or PagerDuty. For a small team that is a few days of setup and a steady trickle of maintenance. For a team with hundreds of suites it is a platform someone owns.
Compare that with Soda, the other popular declarative option: Soda Core 4 moved from Apache-2.0 to the Elastic License in January 2026, and Soda's hosted Team plan lists at $750 a month. The details are on Soda alternatives.
Great Expectations pricing vs Soda, Metaplane, Bigeye and Monte Carlo
A team leaving GX Cloud usually keeps its Expectations in GX Core and buys monitoring and alerting from someone else. These are the published list prices for that second half, each with its source and the date we read it.
| Product | Public list price | What it is metered on | Source, read |
|---|---|---|---|
| GX Core | $0 license | Your compute and engineering time | PyPI, 30 Sep 2026 |
| Soda | Free, then $750 a month (Team) | Plan plus pay-as-you-go Soda Processing Units | soda.io/pricing, 30 Sep 2026 |
| Metaplane (Datadog) | $16 to $24 per table a month | Per monitored table | Datadog pricing, 28 Sep 2026 |
| Bigeye | $45,000 a year | 100 monitored tables | AWS Marketplace, 26 Aug 2026 |
| Monte Carlo | $50,000 a year | Credit package | AWS Marketplace, 26 Aug 2026 |
| DataTrail | $708 to $5,748 a year | Flat plan, unlimited team members | datatrail.ai/pricing |
The full breakdowns are on Metaplane pricing, Bigeye pricing and Monte Carlo data pricing, and the whole category is compared on data quality tools.
Where DataTrail fits after GX Cloud
Great Expectations is an assertion framework: you say what the data must look like, and a checkpoint tells you whether it does. It does not tell you where a failing column came from or which dashboards will show the bad numbers, and it does not notice a table that silently stopped updating unless you wrote an Expectation for it.
DataTrail covers that side. It connects to Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift or Postgres with a read-only role and builds column-level lineage from query history and your dbt project. Freshness monitoring and schema change alerts run on every table without writing a test, and impact analysis lists every downstream model and dashboard before a change ships. Your GX Core suites keep running exactly as they do now.
The price is on the page: Starter is $59 a month billed yearly ($119 month to month) for one warehouse, Team is $179 billed yearly with impact analysis, anomaly detection and unlimited team members, and Scale is $479 for multiple warehouses. Team is $2,148 a year, less than three months of Soda Team at list. See the pricing page.
What DataTrail does not do: it is not a place to write custom row-level assertions. If your quality rules are business logic ("every order has a matching invoice"), keep them in GX Core or dbt tests. The honest side-by-side is on Great Expectations alternatives, and the test-framework question is covered in Great Expectations vs dbt tests.
Great Expectations pricing questions buyers ask
How much does Great Expectations cost?
GX Core, the open-source Python library, costs nothing to license under Apache-2.0; you pay for the compute that runs validations and the engineers who maintain them. GX Cloud never published a paid price: Developer was free, Team and Enterprise were "Custom". Since 1 June 2026 GX Cloud is no longer publicly available after FICO acquired it.
Is Great Expectations free?
GX Core is free and open source under Apache-2.0, and Fivetran now stewards the project. It shipped 13 releases between May and September 2026. What is not free is running it well: you host validation results, Data Docs and alerting yourself, which is the part GX Cloud used to sell.
Is GX Cloud still available?
Not to new public customers. Great Expectations announced in May 2026 that FICO acquired GX Cloud and that it "will no longer be publicly available beginning June 1". As of 30 September 2026 the app host app.greatexpectations.io returns NXDOMAIN, although the pricing page still shows a free Developer plan.
How much is the GX Cloud Team plan?
Great Expectations never printed one. The Team tier has always read "Custom" with a "Contact sales" button, capped at 10 users. A figure of $499 a month for 5 users circulates on third-party sites, but it appears on no Great Expectations page we could find, and it contradicts the published 10-user cap.
Who owns Great Expectations now?
It is split in two. FICO acquired GX Cloud, the hosted SaaS product, to fold into FICO Platform. Fivetran announced on 13 May 2026 that it would become steward of GX Core and the open-source community, and the GitHub repository now resolves to fivetran/great_expectations.
What is a validated data asset in GX Cloud pricing?
It is a table or other data asset with at least one validation run against it in a month. GX Cloud metered on that count, not on users, rows or Expectations: the free Developer tier included 5 validated data assets a month, and every tier allowed unlimited Expectations and validations.
Is Great Expectations cheaper than Soda?
On license cost, yes: GX Core is $0 and Apache-2.0, while Soda Team lists at $750 a month and Soda Core 4 moved to the Elastic License. On total cost it depends on who hosts results and alerting. With GX Cloud gone, a hosted GX setup is no longer something you can buy.
What replaces GX Cloud for hosted monitoring?
Most teams keep GX Core for assertions and add a hosted tool for monitoring and alerts. Soda sells hosted checks from $750 a month. DataTrail adds column-level lineage, freshness, schema change alerts and impact analysis from $59 a month billed yearly, with unlimited team members, and runs next to your existing GX suites.
Where these facts came from
The tier table was read from the rendered pricing page and FAQ with a headless browser, because the plan table is drawn by JavaScript. The ownership facts come from the Great Expectations community update and Fivetran's press release. Everything else is reproducible from public APIs, all checked on 30 September 2026:
dig +short @8.8.8.8 app.greatexpectations.io # (empty: NXDOMAIN) curl -s https://pypi.org/pypi/great-expectations/json # 1.23.2, 25 Sep 2026, Apache-2.0 curl -sL https://api.github.com/repositories/103071520 # full_name: fivetran/great_expectations
We also pulled every Internet Archive capture of the pricing page from May 2024 to February 2026. The tier table is not in the archived HTML, so we make no claim about any historical Team price, and we label the $499 figure as unsourced rather than repeat it.
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