Straight answers about the free Developer Edition — what it deploys into your AWS account, and what it costs. Running Enterprise instead? See the Enterprise FAQ.
Yes. The Developer Edition is free and public — pipx install stratabi from PyPI, source on GitHub. No sales call, no license key, no account with us. You run it against your own AWS account and inspect every line of what it deploys. Shaleio LLC is a Florida company; Enterprise licensing is separate and optional.
The Developer Edition is source-available under the Shaleio Guild Community License (SGCL) — you can read, run, modify, and use it for development, evaluation, and internal work. It is not OSI "open source," and it prohibits reselling it, white-labeling it, or offering it as a managed/hosted service without a commercial license. In plain terms: build with it freely; don't turn StrataBI itself into a product you sell. See the license.
The Developer Edition data plane is serverless and small — no servers, no VPC/load balancers. It provisions: an S3 bucket (dashboards, results, artifacts), Athena workgroups (query execution), a Glue catalog database, a few DynamoDB tables (status/registries, on-demand billing), and two small Lambda functions. StrataCTL adds a lightweight CodeBuild project + IAM roles to run the deploy. Everything is deployed as OpenTofu/Terraform you can read, and it all lives under your IAM, in your account.
StrataBI's own footprint is serverless with lightweight storage, so you pay for what you use rather than for always-on infrastructure — Athena is per-query, Lambda is per-invocation, S3/DynamoDB are usage-based. At development and evaluation scale that's typically small, but your usage, data volume, and query patterns determine the actual bill.
We strongly recommend tracking it:
Disclaimer: this is general guidance, not financial or billing advice. AWS bills you directly for all infrastructure; Shaleio has no visibility into or control over your AWS charges. Estimate and monitor costs with AWS's own tools.
Want a hand sizing it or optimizing spend? Consulting is available by request — info@shaleio.com.
You do, and no. StrataBI runs entirely in your AWS account — your data stays in your S3 and is queried by Athena/Lambda in your account, under your IAM. The Developer Edition does not phone home and works air-gapped. Shaleio never receives your data.
Yes — because it's all in your account. stratactl dev uninstall tears down the StrataBI data plane. If you provisioned StrataCI with the built-in bootstrap pipeline (stratactl bootstrap --run), stratactl bootstrap --destroy tears it down too — it pulls its state from your bucket, so teardown doesn't depend on the machine that installed it. If you deployed the runner yourself with your own Terraform/OpenTofu, tear it down the same way you built it (tofu destroy). Enabling S3 versioning and reviewing the resource list before teardown is good practice.
StrataCTL uses OpenTofu (or Terraform) to deploy. Install either one (the Installation Guide shows how per-OS). You're always free to use your own distribution/version.
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