| name | motherduck-pricing-roi |
| description | Explain MotherDuck pricing and ROI tradeoffs. Use for any pricing, cost, billing, plan-comparison, instance-sizing, chargeback, or budget question — when an economic_buyer, technical_owner, or analytics_lead asks about spend, budget guardrails, workload cost drivers, plan fit, vendor cost comparisons, or whether MotherDuck is worth adopting. |
| argument-hint | ["workload-or-pricing-question"] |
| 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_question feature 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
- Read
references/PRICING_ROI_PLAYBOOK.md for workload-to-cost mapping, publicly safe talking points, ROI framing, and what not to promise
Related Skills
motherduck-connect when the pricing discussion depends on connection-path choicesmotherduck-security-governance when compliance, residency, or commercial controls affect ROImotherduck-build-cfa-app and motherduck-build-dashboard when the economics depend on the application architecture
