motherduckdb/motherduck-pricing-roi
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Explain MotherDuck pricing and ROI tradeoffs. Use when an economic_buyer, technical_owner, or analytics_lead is asking about spend, budget guardrails, workload cost drivers, plan fit, or whether MotherDuck is worth adopting.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- motherduck-pricing-roi
- description:
- Explain MotherDuck pricing and ROI tradeoffs. Use when an economic_buyer, technical_owner, or analytics_lead is asking about spend, budget guardrails, workload cost drivers, plan fit, or whether MotherDuck is worth adopting.
- license:
- MIT
Pricing and ROI
Use this skill when the user is asking whether MotherDuck is financially sensible for their workload, team, or project. This is a workflow skill focused on cost framing, not implementation detail.
Source Of Truth
- Always verify current numbers, plan limits, and feature entitlements against the live public pricing page before answering.
- If the MotherDuck MCP
ask_docs_questionfeature is available, use it first for pricing-related documentation lookups. - Use the live pricing, Hypertenancy, and Trust & Security pages for exact commercial framing.
Default Posture
- Do not hardcode pricing numbers unless you have verified them in the current turn.
- When quoting numbers, include the verification date and the public source you checked.
- Separate storage, compute, and operational complexity in every answer.
- Map workload shape to cost shape before comparing vendors or plans.
- Treat many pricing questions as risk, predictability, or procurement questions rather than purely technical ones.
Workflow
- Identify the workload shape, team size, and comparison baseline.
- Determine whether the real concern is raw spend, predictability, procurement, or operational overhead.
- Map the workload to MotherDuck cost buckets and plan posture.
- Frame ROI in terms of systems replaced, complexity removed, and faster delivery.
- Call out what still needs live pricing-page or sales confirmation.
Open Next
references/PRICING_ROI_PLAYBOOK.mdfor workload-to-cost mapping, publicly safe talking points, ROI framing, and what not to promise
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