Cloud Data Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 8, 2025
I have not been involved overall in cost negotiation, but we find Cloudera Data Platform to be cost-effective. We work with the Cloudera vendor to secure one or two-year licenses upfront for discounts.
Senior Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
Apr 14, 2025
The pricing model for Cloudera Data Platform is complex and has increased significantly compared to CDH. Initially, CDH had a straightforward pricing model based on nodes, but CDP includes factors like processors, cores, terabytes, and drives, making it difficult to calculate costs.
I haven't done a price analysis specifically for HDP. However, when it was first introduced as Hadoop 2.0, there were a few use cases where the price was quite high. It was particularly expensive for Cloudera and Hortonworks Data Platform. Both options were quite resource-intensive. So, seven, or even nine or ten years ago, it was quite expensive.
Data Science and Data Engineering Leader | Senior Principal Data Scientist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 6, 2020
I think it is priced well and it is affordable. Hadoop, which we use with the solution, is open-source. That part is free. We pay only for whatever wrappers Cloudera provides on top of the open-source product, Hadoop. I do not know about the actual pricing in total. The whole point of Hadoop is that it is open-source and they have created their own cluster. Cloudera is just the vendor that they are using. My guess is Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it.
The solution is comprehensible but it also depends on the customers and the customer's stability requirements. I know that Hortonworks is stable, but sometimes when you are talking with the customers, they wonder if Hortonworks is free, how can it be enterprise. But I explain that Hortonworks is open-source.
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The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is very good.
I have not been involved overall in cost negotiation, but we find Cloudera Data Platform to be cost-effective. We work with the Cloudera vendor to secure one or two-year licenses upfront for discounts.
The pricing model for Cloudera Data Platform is complex and has increased significantly compared to CDH. Initially, CDH had a straightforward pricing model based on nodes, but CDP includes factors like processors, cores, terabytes, and drives, making it difficult to calculate costs.
I haven't done a price analysis specifically for HDP. However, when it was first introduced as Hadoop 2.0, there were a few use cases where the price was quite high. It was particularly expensive for Cloudera and Hortonworks Data Platform. Both options were quite resource-intensive. So, seven, or even nine or ten years ago, it was quite expensive.
Currently, we are using the product in a sandbox environment, and there is no licensing. We might choose a licensing option once we get the results.
The solution used to have a free tier. They have since taken that away, which is disappointing.
I think it is priced well and it is affordable. Hadoop, which we use with the solution, is open-source. That part is free. We pay only for whatever wrappers Cloudera provides on top of the open-source product, Hadoop. I do not know about the actual pricing in total. The whole point of Hadoop is that it is open-source and they have created their own cluster. Cloudera is just the vendor that they are using. My guess is Hortonworks should not be expensive at all to those looking into using it.
The solution is comprehensible but it also depends on the customers and the customer's stability requirements. I know that Hortonworks is stable, but sometimes when you are talking with the customers, they wonder if Hortonworks is free, how can it be enterprise. But I explain that Hortonworks is open-source.