Spice.ai OSS

7.1easy start · #8 of 23
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Free to practise onyes
Free trialnot on record
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on api, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows.

Spice.ai OSS is ranked #8 of 23 in data virtualization software on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan.

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Spice.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: Yes
Deployment model: hybrid
Source connectors: 40
Semantic layer: Yes
Access protocols: HTTP, Arrow Flight SQL, JDBC, ODBC, ADBC
REST API access: Yes
Query acceleration: Yes

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The record

Product: Spice is an open-source SQL query and AI-inference engine built in Rust for developers.
Federated SQL: It provides a SQL API to query structured and unstructured data across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
Data acceleration: It can materialize data in DuckDB, SQLite, and PostgreSQL in memory or on disk, with results caching included.
LLM interface: Its AI compute engine provides an OpenAI-compatible API for local and hosted inference, search, memory, evaluations, and observability.
Search: Search supports vector, full-text BM25, and hybrid methods through SQL table-valued functions.
Model providers: The feature overview lists hosted OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI models and local Llama and Phi models, with CUDA and Metal acceleration.
Data integrations: The runtime components page says Spice supports over 40 data connectors, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, S3, Snowflake, Databricks, and DuckDB.
BI and SQL clients: Documented client integrations include DBeaver, JetBrains DataGrip, Apache Superset, Tableau, and Microsoft Power BI.
Monitoring: Observability includes Prometheus-compatible metrics, OpenTelemetry metric export, and Zipkin distributed tracing, with integrations such as Datadog and Grafana.
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.
Deployment: Spice runs as a binary, container, Kubernetes workload, or managed app on the Spice Cloud Platform.
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.
Support: The getting-started documentation says Spice.ai Enterprise provides full support for up to three years from release date.
Price from: Free

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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