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Cloud analytics on DuckDB — run fast SQL queries without servers or infrastructure. Connect CSV files, Parquet, S3, databases. Hybrid local-cloud architecture for optimal performance. Pay only for what you use. Free Lite: 10GB storage, 10hr compute/month. Business: $250/month.
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Talk to STOAMotherDuck is best for small businesses that have a technical person on staff who already knows SQL and needs to run fast analysis on large data files without paying for expensive cloud infrastructure. The pay-as-you-go pricing and free tier with 10GB storage are genuinely useful, but this tool has a steep learning curve — if nobody on your team is comfortable writing SQL queries, you'll hit a wall fast.
