Data warehouses · RankedMotherDuck
MotherDuck is a cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB, offered as a serverless service for teams, applications, and AI agents · motherduck.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Google BigQuery is first at 69%.
Snowflake is first at 62%.
Snowflake is first at 70%.
Why models recommend it
“Ultra-Cheap for Small Teams ... MotherDuck offers a managed cloud version with a generous free tier”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Strong Alternative: MotherDuck (Best for Very Small Teams or Cost-Sensitive Analytics)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“MotherDuck / DuckDB (Simple, cheap, fast).”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for Small Teams/Startups: Motherduck”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“MotherDuck may be worth evaluating, but it is less universal as an enterprise warehouse.”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · warning
“still maturing—use cautiously for mission-critical, massive-scale production”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as MotherDuck, over the 38 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 10 | View → | |
| 34 | 18 | View → | |
| 34 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 2 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of MotherDuck →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on MotherDuck's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams, applications, and AI agents
- Price stated
- Lite plan
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Start free; Try 7 Days Free; 10 GB free storage and 10 hours of free compute per month. No credit card required.
- Certifications
- GDPR, SOC 2
- Hosting
- US-East-1, EU region support
- Customers named
- Ahead Computing, DO Something, Goodship, Together AI, FinQore, AheadComputing, Zero Health, Reflex
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 29 of the 38 answers that named MotherDuck and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
101 of the 116 domain citations in answers naming MotherDuck came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 400 | undated | Data warehouses | ||
| Blog | 275 | 14 | 2026-09-22 | Data warehouses | |
| Conference or event | 244 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 142 | undated | Data warehouses | ||
| Report or ebook | 34 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 29 | 1 | 2026-09-02 | ||
| Case study | 22 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 18 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22Querying the entire internet 100 billion rows with motherduck blog
- 2026-09-21Dbt Charts on MotherDuck Declarative Dashboards blog
- 2026-09-21prompt_jev(): Text Classification in SQL, 50x Faster at 1% the Cost | MotherDuck blog
- 2026-09-16DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026 | MotherDuck blog
- 2026-09-15How to pick the right database blog
- 2026-09-14Your DuckDB Flock Deserves A Mother | MotherDuck blog
Events in person
- July 9, 2026WeAreDevelopers World CongressMesse Berlin, Berlin, Germany · sponsored
As the event pages on motherduck.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page motherduck.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.