Data Product Hub service plans

Last updated: May 15, 2025
Data Product Hub service plans

Data Product Hub offers various service plans. Your service plan determines the amount of data products, data subscriptions, and capacity-unit hours available to you each month.

Available plans

IBM Cloud account owners can choose between a Lite or Essentials plan.

Lite
The Lite plan is suitable for individual users and provides a free trial of Data Product Hub.
Essentials
The Essentials plan is suitable for organizations who are interested in discovering and publishing data products.

Plan offerings

Each plan has a monthly limit of available data products, data subscriptions, and capacity-unit hours (CUH).

Table 1. Data Product Hub service plan offerings
Plan Features and capabilities Pricing
Lite • 10 published data products
• 25 data subscriptions/month
• 20 CUH/month
Free
Essentials • Unlimited published data products
• 250 data subscriptions/month
• CUH charged per unit used
• $1.25 USD/CUH
• $12 USD/data subscription

You can only provision one instance of the Lite plan per account.

Billing

You are only charged for the time that the service instance is provisioned. For example, if you provision an instance of Data Product Hub on 1 Jan and then de-provision it on 20 Jan, you are charged for 20 days. For more details about billing and usage, see Monitoring your account resource usage.

You can view a summary of your monthly billing on IBM Cloud. From the home page, choose Manage > Account and billing. To view the usage for each service, click Usage.

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Provisioning the Data Product Hub service

Parent topic: Setting up and administering