What is Databricks Mosaic AI?
Databricks' stack for agents, RAG, model serving and MLflow.
Who is Databricks Mosaic AI best for?
Databricks Mosaic AI is best for data teams on Databricks who want to build and serve AI agents on their data.
Teams already on Databricks
Agents, model endpoints and vector indexes run next to your data, and Unity Catalog governs them along with models hosted outside Databricks.
Q&A bots over company documents
Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant builds cited question-and-answer bots over your documents, and AI Search keeps vector indexes in sync with the source data.
Serving custom and open models
Model Serving deploys agents, generative models and classical ML models on CPUs or GPUs with autoscaling.
Checking agent quality before launch
Managed MLflow grades agent answers with AI judges, collects feedback from human experts and traces problems back to their cause.
How much does Databricks Mosaic AI cost?
Databricks Mosaic AI is pay as you go: Model Serving starts at $0.070 per DBU on the Premium tier in US East, other AI products are priced per answer or per hour, and a Free Edition covers personal, non-commercial use.
- Personal, non-commercial use only
- Smaller compute sizes and fair-use limits
- Build agents and serve models as API endpoints
- CPU or GPU serving, cloud instance cost included
- A T4 GPU uses 10.48 DBUs an hour, 8 H100s use 800
- Serves agents, GenAI and classical ML models
- Cited Q&A chatbots over your documents
- Only answers that use the knowledge base are charged
- Ingestion, parsing, embedding and search billed separately
- 2M vectors per unit, cloud instance cost included
- Storage $0.23 per GB a month, first 30 GB free
- Storage Optimized: $1.28 an hour for 64M vectors
Databricks bills its AI products pay as you go, by the second, with no up-front cost; most are metered in DBUs (Databricks Units), and committed-use contracts bring discounts through sales. These are list prices for the Premium tier on AWS in US East (N. Virginia); prices vary by cloud, region and tier. Foundation Model Serving is billed per million tokens, or by the hour for provisioned throughput and batch inference, at rates that depend on the model. The Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent costs $0.070 per DBU plus the agents it calls. A 14-day free trial comes with up to $400 in credits. Full pricing on databricks.com. We checked these prices on .
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Questions about Databricks Mosaic AI
What is Databricks Mosaic AI?
Databricks' stack for agents, RAG, model serving and MLflow.
Who is Databricks Mosaic AI for?
Databricks Mosaic AI is best for data teams on Databricks who want to build and serve AI agents on their data.
Is Databricks Mosaic AI free?
Partly. Databricks Free Edition costs nothing and does not expire, and you can build agents and serve models with it, but it is for personal, non-commercial use on smaller compute. For work there is a 14-day trial with up to $400 in credits, then pay-as-you-go billing.
Do Databricks Mosaic AI prices include cloud costs?
For Model Serving and AI Search, yes: Databricks' listed prices include the cloud instance cost. If you connect Databricks to your own cloud account, your cloud provider still bills you for resources such as compute instances used there, even during the free trial.
Where can I try Databricks Mosaic AI?
On its official website, databricks.com.
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