# Azure Databricks Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Azure Databricks Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Machine Learning products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/246719/Azure-Databricks/alternatives --- # Azure Databricks Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on March 15, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Azure Databricks ## What is Azure Databricks? Azure Databricks supports analysts looking to run SQL queries on data using multiple data visualization tools, exploring possible results from various perspectives. It allows analysts to build and share customizable dashboards, enhancing seamless communication operations. It also helps to fasten response time and approval processes, allowing maximum utilization of resources. The software offers data engineers three platforms, including Databricks SQL, Databricks Data Science and Engineering, and Databricks Machine Learning for developing high-data applications. It also allows software engineers to protect data assets using network security tools like Azure Active Directory, which helps admins facilitate real-time tracking of website user activities. ## What is Azure Databricks used for? [Machine Learning](https://www.capterra.com/machine-learning-software/) Overall rating Based on 10 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Azure Databricks?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=http://www.microsoft.com&name=Azure Databricks) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Azure Databricks 4.7 (10) VS. [### Saturn Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/10002058/Saturn-Cloud/) [4.7 (11)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10002058/Saturn-Cloud/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.7 (10) Ease Of Use 4.7 (11) Value For Money 4.1 (8) Value For Money 4.7 (11) Customer Service 4.5 (8) Customer Service 4.5 (11) ## Azure Databricks alternatives [SAP Data Intelligence](https://www.capterra.com/p/170402/SAP-Leonardo-Machine-Learning/) [3.8 (5)](https://www.capterra.com/p/170402/SAP-Leonardo-Machine-Learning/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 80% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/170402/SAP-Leonardo-Machine-Learning/) Highest Rated [Monolith](https://www.capterra.com/p/238281/Monolith/) [5.0 (1)](https://www.capterra.com/p/238281/Monolith/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/238281/Monolith/) [Toloka](https://www.capterra.com/p/10008649/Toloka/) [4.4 (5)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10008649/Toloka/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/10008649/Toloka/) [Sahha](https://www.capterra.com/p/268438/Sahha/) [0.0](https://www.capterra.com/p/268438/Sahha/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 0% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/268438/Sahha/) ## Pricing Value for money 4.1 (8) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Value for money 4.1 (8) 4.1 Based on 8 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.5 (8) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.5 (8) 4.5 Based on 8 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.7 Based on 10 reviews Filter by rating 5(7) 4(3) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent Wealth A. Data Engineer Financial Services ### "High-Performance Analytics for Modern Data Teams" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 March 31, 2026 Azure Databricks provides a robust platform for big data analytics and machine learning. Its performance and scalability make it ideal for enterprise-level data processing, and the integration with Azure services streamlines workflows. While it may feel complex initially, the productivity gains and flexibility it offers make it worth adopting. Pros Seamless integration with Azure ecosystem and other cloud services. Excellent performance and speed for large-scale data processing. Flexible environment for both data engineering and data science workloads. Strong support for Spark-based analytics and collaborative workflows. Cons Steeper learning curve for beginners without Spark experience. Pricing can be high for smaller teams or experimental projects. Some advanced features require additional configuration or expertise. Switched from [Azure Synapse Analytics](https://www.capterra.com/p/170434/SQL-Data-Warehouse/) Cost implications were alarming and not suitable Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Developer Information Technology and Services ### "Prons & Cons of Azure Databricks" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 January 9, 2026 Overall, Azure Databricks is great platform for data ingesting, processing and dashboarding with highly optmized engines and supports for various inbuild features. Pros Azure Databricks supporrs for different language like SQl, Python, and, Java etc. Its easy to use for new beginners and supports for git and devops integration make it more flexible to work in big projects. Azure Databricks supports for reporting and machine learning make it compatible amd unified platform where all developers, analyst, and data scientists can work at same platform therefore reducing cost. Cons Azure Databricks processing engine habe some bugs like null value if timestamp column provided as other data type column. So its need to be fixed. Azure Databricks high cost for dashboarding and ingesting data from cloud and on premises data. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Tej P. DevOps Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Databricks for data world" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 April 13, 2024 It provides simplifies the data journey by providing a single solution for data engineering, analytics, and machine learning. It Handles large datasets effortlessly for data processing and analysis tasks. It provides integration with other tools for data preparation, real-time processing, and advanced analytics. It provides scalability, cost-efficiency, and robust security features to ensure that businesses can manage their data with compliance and regulation. Pros It provides some key features like workspace, notebook, Apache spark, Delta Lake, and Scalability. It provides a centralized environment where teams can collaborate. We can work on Jupyter Notebook with Apache Spark which provides the engine that powers all processing of dataset. It provides Cross-team collaboration so engineers, analysts, scientists, and ML engineers can work seamlessly on the same platform. It also provides consistency with notebooks, users can transition between tasks and programming languages without the need for context-switching. Cons In this Databricks platform, we can't migrate a library from the dev workspace to the prod workspace. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. PG Pranshu G. Assciate Data Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Azure databricks : Not just a Paas tool" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 January 19, 2024 Pros What I have come to love most about this tool is runs on most popular and best in class spark environment. The most sincere availability of cloud infrastructure is undoubtedly a big concern when you are dealing with multi node/cluster distributed programming. It also supports multi language supporting scala, pyspark, spark sql. Super useful. Cons All things said, there are still few areas where azure databricks can improve upon. For instance, the pipeline orchestration is still pretty primitive as compared to its competitors. They are lacking most of most common features. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. SA Samuel A. Software Telecommunications ### "Harnessing Data Powerhouse with Azure Databricks" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 May 18, 2023 A powerful data processing and analytics solution offering comprehensive machine learning capabilities. Pros Masterclass in Machine Learning Capabilities, Big Data Analytics, and Seamless Azure Integration with Admirable Speed and Efficiency. Cons Falls short in language versatility and default storage capacity; requires a learning curve and strategic planning for potential data overload. Switched from [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.capterra.com/p/1417/SQL-Server/) [Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) While Google Cloud has robust services, Azure Databricks offers more seamless integration with other Microsoft products Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Software Engineer 2 Information Technology and Services ### "Best solution for Big Data Analytics with Spark" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 February 24, 2023 Pros I like working in Azure Databricks a lot. The thing that I like the most about it is its integration with Azure: Databricks is tightly integrated with Azure, which makes it easy to set up and use within the Azure ecosystem. It allows you to access data from Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and other Azure services and also integrates with Azure Machine Learning. Cons Azure Databricks is great but, when it comes to cost, Databricks can be expensive, particularly for large-scale data processing tasks. The cost can quickly add up as you increase the number of nodes and storage capacity. Switched from [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.capterra.com/p/1417/SQL-Server/) Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Shaunak P. Data Platform Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Single workspace for all your analytics, code editing and transformation needs!" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 January 20, 2023 Azure Databrick is very easy to learn, and they provide a lot of certifications. Their community is huge. It does its work well. We majorly leverage our work on Interactive Notebooks on Databricks. Pros There are a lot of pros, as Azure Databricks is huge SaaS product offering.Instead of mentioning about what Azure Databricks does, I will just focus this section on pros (which you may not get anywhere else)1) Delta Lake, Apache Spark, Redash, etc. are open-source projects that are maintained and founded by Databricks team of engineers.2) Top notch and highly available services like Workflows and Photon.3) They will not force you to migrate application data to their proprietary storage systems, you can configure it on cloud for you.5) They provide a flagship service called Unity Catalogue, it helps you to manage the permission within databricks on azure.6) You can use Azure Databricks not only via UI but also Rest API, CLI & Terraform. Cons There are a lot of features and guides but when it comes to deployment of new features or version upgrade, Azure Databricks team does not provide any intimation. These creates reverse dependency issues for stable pipelines in PROD. However, we cannot obstruct the new changes coming in, but can at least try to comply with the critical changes. Also, there are a lot of outages in certain regions. Alternatives considered [Azure Synapse Analytics](https://www.capterra.com/p/170434/SQL-Data-Warehouse/) Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Charles B. Data engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Data Engineering very fast" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 January 13, 2023 Pros The Azure portal offers an easy path to this tool. Its supports access by keyvault. Cons The variables switched between data factory and databricks are not get by a simple way. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "コードを実行するノートブックとデータレイクが統合されているので使いやすい！" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 December 27, 2022 Pros データレイクのデータ一覧と、コードを実行するＰｙｔｈｏｎノートブックが同一の画面に出てくるので、画面の行ったり来たりが無く使いやすい。また、ｓｐａｒｋテーブルのまま保存することができるので、クエリの実行結果が返ってくるのが非常に早い。さらに、他のＭＳ製品ともシームレスに繋ぐことができ、作業負荷が小さい。 Cons 強いて言うならば、データレイクなので、テーブルの命名規則を事前に設定・整備しておかないと、テーブルの一覧が煩雑になってしまうことでしょうか。 Reasons for choosing Azure Databricks スパークテーブルのままデータを保持でき、クエリが高速なため。 Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AM Amr M. Instructional Designer. Higher Education ### "Seamless Data Service on Microsoft Azure" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 May 9, 2022 As a member of the data analytics team, I find Microsoft Azure Databricks efficient and allows my team to integrate Databricks SQL with Power BI to build advanced data analysis solutions that process big datasets. Also, we use the Databricks Machine Learning service to run training models on our data sets related to students learning records. It helps us build better data analysis solutions, improve the design and delivery of our online courses, and build/embed more impactful recommendation systems into learning management systems. Pros Azure Databricks is easy to use, quick to start with and works seamlessly with Azure data services like Azure Data Lake Storage. It facilitates the big-data Analytics workload optimization and connects seamlessly with Power BI. The service documentation is well-organized and easy to follow to make it easy for non-data scientists to build advanced data analytics pipelines with basic programming skills. Cons Azure Databricks Service requires experience with the Azure platform, and new users might easily get lost. Also, it is not as seamless with applications outside the Microsoft environment. Alternatives considered [Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. 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