Metacenta

Pricing

Fixed prices, published up front

Two services, each with a fixed price and a follow-up. You can see what it costs before you talk to us, and the price doesn't change with how much data you choose to share.

Ask for a review Scoped and priced within the week.
  • No warehouse access needed
  • Fixed, published price

Prices

  • Technical Review

    £2,000

    One dbt project and its repository, read across fifteen areas, with every finding checked by a person before you see it.

  • Migration Assurance

    £3,500

    One migration, compared asset by asset across the old and new estate, with an optional data check on terms you choose.

  • Reassessment

    £500

    After a Technical Review, once your team has made changes. We run the same inputs again, confirm what's fixed and flag anything new.

  • Re-run before cutover

    £750

    After Migration Assurance, once your team has fixed what we found. Same spec, run again against the new estate.

Got a larger estate? We'll agree the scope and the price with you before any work starts. We invoice after scoping, and there's no subscription.

What you get with each

The Technical Review tells you what's wrong with one data platform and what to fix first. Migration Assurance tells you whether a migration did what it was meant to, asset by asset. Both end with a walkthrough with your team, and neither needs access to your warehouse.

Technical ReviewMigration Assurance
Price£2,000£3,500
ScopeOne dbt project and its repositoryOne migration, up to about 200 assets and 50 table pairs
What we checkFifteen areas, from testing and lineage to BI and AI readinessEvery asset in the old estate against its counterpart in the new one
Your dataNever read. We use metadata and the warehouse's own statisticsYour choice: nothing, a verdict per table pair, or the figures
A person reviewsEvery findingEvery verdict
You receiveA report, a worklist and a private portalA report with a verdict and a reason for every asset
WalkthroughIncludedIncluded
Follow-upReassessment, £500Re-run before cutover, £750

The data check in Migration Assurance is optional. Sending nothing still gets you a complete report.

What we work with

We read the files these tools already produce, and nothing here needs a connection to your warehouse. Products marked with a service are supported for that one only.

Transformation

Project artefacts (manifest, run results, source freshness, catalog), and the model files of SQL projects.

  • dbt Core
  • dbt Cloud
  • SQLMesh
  • Dataform
  • Plain SQL No dbt needed

BI and semantic layers

Semantic model files, and the usage exports that show which dashboards people open.

  • Looker
  • Power BI
  • Tableau

Orchestration and lineage

The DAG and asset definition files you name, and exported run events.

  • Airflow
  • Dagster
  • Prefect
  • OpenLineage
  • Marquez

Warehouses

Query history from a read-only query you run, and reconciliation scripts you run yourself.

  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Databricks
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon Athena Query history

Code and infrastructure

Repository metadata through a read-only token, and Terraform files.

  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket Cloud
  • Terraform

Product names are trademarks of their owners. Naming them means we read the files they produce, not that we're partnered with or endorsed by them.

Your stack isn't listed?

Tell us what you run. We'll look at what it produces and confirm we can read it before we quote anything.

If we can, we build the support for your review and take 25% off the published price, because you're the first to use it. Your report marks which findings come from checks running for the first time. It takes a little longer, and in return we'd ask for your feedback, not your files.

Out of scope

  • Doing the fixes. We write the report and tell you how to fix each finding. If you'd like help with the work itself, ask: it's a separate scope.
  • Checking individual rows. Neither service reads your tables row by row. That's a data audit, which is a separate offer.
  • Larger estates at these prices. Several dbt projects, or a migration over about 200 assets or 50 table pairs, are scoped and priced before work starts.

Questions people ask

Does the price change if we share less data?

No. You pay the same whether you send nothing, verdicts only or the figures. What changes is what the report can tell you, and it says so.

What counts as a larger estate?

More than one dbt project, or LookML, BI and orchestration on top of one, or a migration bigger than about 200 assets or 50 table pairs. We agree the scope and the price before any work starts.

How do we pay?

We invoice after scoping. There's no subscription, no card on file and no sales call needed to find out the price.

Request a review

Send us a short description of your stack. We will confirm whether the review fits, and come back with a scope and a price.

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