Bauplan vs Lance
Bauplan
bauplanlabs.comLance
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| Figure | Bauplan | Lance |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $700/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Data Version Control Tools | 8.4 (#10) | 7.8 (#22) |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Temporal, DBOS, Jupyter, Marimo, Streamlit, Snowflake, BigQuery, Metabase, Superset, Fivetran, and Airbyte. | Documented integrations include DataFusion, Spark, DuckDB, Trino, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Ray, Hugging Face, PostgreSQL, and Flink. |
| Product | Bauplan is a data lakehouse that runs Python and SQL pipelines directly on Apache Iceberg tables in a user's object storage, with no servers or clusters to manage. | Lance is an open source lakehouse format for multimodal AI, with file, table, and catalog specifications for object storage. |
| Support | The Sandbox includes community support on Slack, Dedicated has private Slack support, and Enterprise includes dedicated customer support and a forward deployed engineer. | The contributor guide directs users with questions to the Lance Discord for real-time support. |
Plans
In their own words
Bauplan
Bauplan is a data lakehouse for running Python and SQL pipelines directly on Apache Iceberg tables in a user's object storage, without managing servers or clusters. It uses serverless execution for Python pipelines and supports Python, SQL, and mixed workloads on the same tables. Data branches, isolated runs, atomic publishes, and rollback are intended to safeguard changes to production data. Bauplan also describes workflows where AI agents build pipelines, explore data, and manage a lakehouse through its MCP Server and Skills. Integrations listed include Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Temporal, DBOS, Jupyter, Marimo, Streamlit, Snowflake, BigQuery, Metabase, Superset, Fivetran, and Airbyte. Bauplan says customer data stays in the customer's S3 bucket and offers PrivateLink or bring-your-own-cloud options. Its free Sandbox uses a shared environment where all data is public, which the company recommends for toy projects and demos rather than company data. Dedicated costs $700 a month after the first 14 days free and includes a dedicated private instance, data in the customer's S3, 10GB memory, and unlimited queries, users, and agents. Enterprise pricing is custom. Bauplan states that it is SOC 2 Type II compliant.