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Databricks Free Edition

Databricks Free Edition is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced June 2025.

Databricks Community Edition Databricks Free Edition

A no-cost, serverless-only edition of the Databricks platform for students, educators, and hobbyists to learn and experiment - notebooks, SQL, dashboards, ML models, and AI apps in a single quota-limited workspace.

  • It runs serverless-only with hard quotas - blow past them and the whole workspace shuts down for the rest of the day (or month, in extreme cases), though your data survives the timeout.
  • Verifying your identity through LinkedIn unlocks perks the base tier withholds - limited GPU compute and outbound internet access.

Limitations: Serverless-only and heavily capped: one 2X-Small SQL warehouse, at most 5 concurrent job tasks, up to 3 apps (auto-stopped after 24 hours), no GPUs or provisioned throughput by default, no R or Scala, no SSO/SCIM, a single workspace/metastore per account, and non-commercial use only; exceeding a quota shuts the workspace for the rest of the day.

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Category
Developer experience
Introduced
June 2025
Announced at
Announced at Data + AI Summit 2025
Also known as
Free Edition
Verified
2026-07-24

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