Tech riderRev. 30 Sept 2026
Spice.ai OSS
- 1Runs onAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
- 2CostsFree plan
- 3Deployment modelhybrid
- 4Source connectors40
- 5Semantic layerYes
- 6Access protocolsHTTP, Arrow Flight SQL, JDBC, ODBC, ADBC
- 7REST API accessYes
- 8Query accelerationYes
8 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: spiceai.org
Overview
Spice.ai OSS is ranked #8 of 23 in data virtualization software on Specifiction. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan.
Spice.ai OSS plans and pricing
All plansSpice.ai OSS Free Apache 2.0 licensed · self-hostable binary or Docker image spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
Compared on data virtualization software
- Free plan
- Yesspiceai.org
- Deployment model
- hybridspiceai.org
- Source connectors
- 40spiceai.org
- Semantic layer
- Yesspiceai.org
- Access protocols
- HTTP, Arrow Flight SQL, JDBC, ODBC, ADBCspiceai.org
- REST API access
- Yesspiceai.org
- Query acceleration
- Yesspiceai.org
Facts
- Product
- Spice is an open-source SQL query and AI-inference engine built in Rust for developers.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Federated SQL
- It provides a SQL API to query structured and unstructured data across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Data acceleration
- It can materialize data in DuckDB, SQLite, and PostgreSQL in memory or on disk, with results caching included.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- LLM interface
- Its AI compute engine provides an OpenAI-compatible API for local and hosted inference, search, memory, evaluations, and observability.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Search
- Search supports vector, full-text BM25, and hybrid methods through SQL table-valued functions.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Model providers
- The feature overview lists hosted OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI models and local Llama and Phi models, with CUDA and Metal acceleration.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Data integrations
- The runtime components page says Spice supports over 40 data connectors, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, S3, Snowflake, Databricks, and DuckDB.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- BI and SQL clients
- Documented client integrations include DBeaver, JetBrains DataGrip, Apache Superset, Tableau, and Microsoft Power BI.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Monitoring
- Observability includes Prometheus-compatible metrics, OpenTelemetry metric export, and Zipkin distributed tracing, with integrations such as Datadog and Grafana.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Security
- Spice supports optional API-key authentication for API endpoints, and its secret stores can use environment variables, files, or external managers such as AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Deployment
- Spice runs as a binary, container, Kubernetes workload, or managed app on the Spice Cloud Platform.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Operating systems
- The installation page lists macOS with Apple Silicon, Linux on x86_64 or aarch64, and Windows 10 or later with WSL; it says the prebuilt binary needs no other dependencies.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Support
- The getting-started documentation says Spice.ai Enterprise provides full support for up to three years from release date.spiceai.org · 30 Sept 2026
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Sources
- spiceai.org· checked 30 Sept 2026
- spiceai.org/docs/features· checked 30 Sept 2026
- spiceai.org/docs/components· checked 30 Sept 2026
- spiceai.org/docs/clients· checked 30 Sept 2026
- spiceai.org/docs/deployment· checked 30 Sept 2026
- spiceai.org/docs/installation· checked 30 Sept 2026
- spiceai.org/docs/v2.1/getting-started· checked 30 Sept 2026