Pricing

Priced per environment, not per incident

Charging by investigation would give you a reason not to investigate, which defeats the point. Production and staging are what you pay for.

Why per environment

Pricing shapes behaviour long before anyone reads the invoice, and most usage-based models for this kind of tool shape it badly.

The obvious model would be per investigation. It sounds fair — you pay for what you use — and it is exactly wrong, because it puts a price on the moment someone is deciding whether a number looks odd enough to look into. At the margin, a per-investigation price does not produce revenue. It produces a shrug and a guess.

That matters more here than in most categories, because the failures this product is built for are the quiet ones. Nobody hesitates to investigate a pipeline that crashed. The 38% shortfall on a run that reported success is caught by somebody who thought a figure looked slightly off and decided to check — precisely the decision a per-use price discourages.

Per seat has the same defect in a different place. Confirming or rejecting a diagnosis is what calibrates the system, so the more people who can do it the better the product gets. Charging per head shrinks that sample deliberately.

So the unit is the environment: a thing that exists whether or not anything went wrong this month, and whose value does not change with how carefully you use it.

Plans

Design partner

Free

during the pilot

For teams willing to give us real incidents and honest feedback while we build. Limited places.

  • Up to 3 pipelines
  • 1 agent
  • Full investigation engine
  • Direct line to the people building it
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Team

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per environment

For a data platform team running production pipelines that matter.

  • Unlimited pipelines
  • Up to 10 agents
  • Source control and database integrations
  • Remediation pull requests
  • Audit log and scoped access
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Enterprise

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For estates with multiple environments, strict data residency, or a security review to satisfy.

  • Everything in Team
  • SSO and SCIM
  • Custom redaction and retention policies
  • Self-hosted control plane
  • Named support
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Full comparison

Everything that makes an investigation trustworthy — evidence records, citations, topology and drift — is in every plan, including the free one. Those are not premium features; they are the product. What varies is scale, integration surface and the controls a larger organisation needs.

Plan comparison
Design partner Team Enterprise
InvestigationsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Evidence records and citationsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Pipeline topology and drift notesIncludedIncludedIncluded
PipelinesUp to 3UnlimitedUnlimited
Agents1Up to 10Unlimited
Environments1Priced per environmentPriced per environment
Database and scheduler discoveryIncludedIncludedIncluded
Source control integrationIncludedIncluded
Remediation pull requestsIncludedIncluded
Audit log90 days12 monthsConfigurable
Scoped access rolesIncludedIncluded
SSO and SCIMIncluded
Custom redaction rulesDefaults onlyIncludedIncluded
Configurable retentionWithin boundsIncluded
Data residency selectionIncluded
Self-hosted control planeOn request
SupportDirect, informalBusiness hoursNamed contact
Billing unit

What counts as an environment

The billing unit, defined precisely — because a vague unit is how a bill becomes a surprise.

An environment is a set of systems you would investigate as one thing. Usually that maps to production, staging, and sometimes a disaster-recovery estate. The test is practical rather than architectural: if an incident in one place would never send you looking at the other, they are separate environments.

What an environment explicitly does not depend on:

  • How many database instances it contains
  • How many pipelines run in it
  • How many agents you deploy to reach its network segments
  • How many people look at the results
  • How many incidents happen in it

A single production environment with twelve SQL Server instances, an Airflow deployment and forty bespoke services is one environment. That is deliberate: estates of exactly that shape are the reason this product exists, and a model that charged per instance would penalise the people it is built for.

What is deliberately not metered

Four things we could charge for and do not, because charging would make the product worse.

Each of these is a case where a meter would change behaviour in a direction that damages the thing you are paying for.

Not metered, and the reason
What Why not
InvestigationsA per-investigation price teaches teams to guess instead of investigate — which is precisely the behaviour this product exists to replace.
SeatsConfirming and rejecting diagnoses is how accuracy gets measured. Charging per head shrinks the sample and makes the product worse for everyone.
Evidence storage, within reasonRetention is a policy you set for security reasons, not a line item we sell back to you. Nobody should be choosing a shorter window to save money.
Re-investigationA conclusion that does not survive new evidence was never a conclusion. Re-running has to be free or nobody will do it.

Common questions

Why no prices on this page?
Because Decim is pre-release and any number published today would be wrong within a quarter — and a price you have to unwind is worse than one you never published. Design partners pay nothing. For everyone else the shape is settled (per environment, not per incident) even though the number is not, and we would rather tell you the shape honestly than post a placeholder.
Is staging a separate environment?
Only if you want investigations to run there. Most teams start with production only, because that is where an unexplained incident actually costs something. Staging becomes worth connecting when you want to test a remediation before it ships, and that is a decision you can make later.
What if we have twelve SQL Server instances in one environment?
That is one environment. The billing unit is the environment, not the instance, the pipeline, or the agent — you can run as many agents as the plan allows to reach different network segments within it. An estate with many servers and one production environment is the case this model is designed to be fair to.
Does the agent count towards anything?
Agents are capped per plan because each one is a deployment you have to operate, not because they cost us anything meaningful. If you need more to reach segmented networks, that is a conversation rather than an upsell.
What happens if we stop paying?
Export is available throughout a 30-day window, after which evidence and investigations are deleted. Retention and deletion are covered on the security page. Nothing is held hostage — the agent runs on your infrastructure and you can stop it whenever you like.
Can we trial it on a real incident before committing?
That is the only trial we think is worth running. Bring a pipeline that broke last week and that you already know the answer to — if Decim gets it wrong, that is far more useful to both of us than a demo where it does not.

Related: design partners for what a pilot involves; security for retention, residency and access; and the product for what is actually included.

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