FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between the Spice.ai Cloud Platform and Spice.ai OSS?

Spice.ai OSS is an open-source project created by Spice AI that provides a unified SQL query interface to locally materialize, accelerate, and query data tables sourced from any database, data warehouse, or data lake.

The Spice.ai Cloud Platform is a data and time-series AI application platform that provides a set of building-block to create data and AI driven applications. Building blocks include a cloud-data-warehouse, ML model training and inference, and Spice Firecache, a managed Spice.ai OSS cloud-hosted service.

What data do you have?

Spice.ai is preloaded with community data, including select blockchain datasets from Ethereum (including Beacon) and Bitcoin blockchain data along with ENS, DeFi/DEX (Sushiswap, Uniswap-V2, Uniswap-V3, Aave), NFT and token specific data. Spice.ai also features a comprehensive set of EigenLayer datasets.

Digital asset/cryptocurrency spot/latest and full historical prices data is available from leading exchanges including Coinbase, Gemini, and Binance.

Datasets can be published to the Spice.ai platform by the community for public or private use using Datasets and Views.

For the all-up list, see Communtiy Data and follow the Release notes for updates.

How much does Spice.ai cost?

It's free to get an API key to use the Community Edition.

We plan to always have a free tier and offer free APIs, like the Gas Fees API.

For customers who need higher request or query limits, service guarantees, or priority support we offer high-value paid tiers based on usage.

What level of support do you offer?

We offer best-effort community support in Discord.

If you'd like higher-priority support or need enterprise-grade support with an SLA, upgrade your plan.

What SQL query engine/language do you support?

We currently use an Apache Calcite based query engine and support the ANSI SQL standard.

Spice Firecache is built on DuckDB and uses the DuckDB SQL dialect.

Can you add <table> / dataset or index a specific on-chain contract?

Most likely, yes! Hit us up on Discord and we can work with you to add new views/tables or index new contracts. We also support custom views and datasets.

Do you support WebSockets or other streaming?

WebSocket support is available for Enterprise customers. Apache Arrow over gRPC streaming is on our roadmap.

Do you support alerting?

Not yet, but it is on our roadmap.

Do you support JDBC//ODBC/ADBC?

Not yet, but it is on our roadmap. JDBC/ODB/ADBC is already supported by Spice.ai OSS and is coming to Spice Firecache soon.