{"schema_version":"1.5","id":"0a8cd064-c5bb-4936-a1b9-2192808ee1a6","type":"product","listing_type":"product","canonical_url":"https://profiles.scribble.network/listing/definity-0a8cd064","name":"definity","provider":{"name":"Definity AI Inc.","url":"https://definity.ai/"},"maker":{"name":"Definity AI Inc.","url":"https://definity.ai/"},"description":"definity is an agentic data engineering platform that installs inside existing Spark workloads on Databricks, Amazon EMR, Google Dataproc, or self-managed Spark with no code changes. It auto-tunes jobs to cut cloud compute spend, monitors pipeline health and data quality in motion, and validates code or platform changes in CI before they reach production. The company states it runs in your environment so data never leaves.","category":"Analytics","decision_record":{"best_for":"Enterprise data engineering and platform teams running large Spark workloads who need to reduce cloud compute cost, protect SLAs, and speed up incident root-cause analysis. It also suits teams planning Spark version upgrades or Spark-to-Databricks/EMR/Dataproc migrations that need pre-production validation on real data.","not_ideal_for":"Teams without Spark or lakehouse workloads, or small shops that only need basic monitoring, since the free tier caps at 10 Spark jobs and 3 users and enterprise features require custom pricing. Buyers who need external Slack/email alerting or hard pipeline stops today should verify current capabilities first, as the docs describe these as not yet available.","problems_solved":["Over-provisioned Spark compute, data skew, and missing parallelization driving up cloud costs.","Lack of real-time job-level monitoring, since native tools like Spark UI, CloudWatch, and Dataproc History Server are ag","Manual, at-rest data-quality checks that detect bad data only after it reaches downstream systems.","Slow, fragmented root-cause analysis across logs, lineage, and environment changes.","Risky Spark version upgrades and platform migrations with no pre-production validation framework."],"pricing":"Explorer is free ($0) for up to 10 Spark jobs and 3 users on SaaS. Pro starts at $0.003 per vCore-hour, so cost scales with the size of the monitored Spark footprint, with up to 10 users, SaaS deployment, and email support; it is also available on AWS Marketplace and no credit card is required to st","availability":"SaaS or self-hosted, cloud or on-premises. The company says it runs 100% in your environment with no data leaving. Supported platforms include Databricks on AWS, GCP, and Azure (Classic Compute and Serverless), Amazon EMR, Google Dataproc, open-source Spark on Kubernetes or YARN, and dbt on BigQuery"},"normalized_facts":{"pricing":{"model":"unknown","price_from":0,"currency":"USD","billing_period":null},"availability":{"regions":["SaaS or self-hosted","cloud or on-premises. The company says it runs 100% in your environment with no data leaving. 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Preserve these limitations and costs: the free tier caps at 10 Spark jobs and 3 users; Pro is usage-based at $0.003 per vCore-hour and scales with the monitored footprint; Enterprise pricing is undisclosed and tailored; the underlying cloud compute is billed separately; auto-generated tests need about 4–5 successful runs to establish a baseline; external alerting and hard pipeline stops are not currently available per the docs; and the headline ROI figures are first-party claims rather than independently verified benchmarks. The official next step is to start free on the Explorer tier (no credit card required) or book a demo via https://www.definity.ai/pricing.","actions":[{"type":"visit_product","label":"Visit product","url":"https://definity.ai/"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://definity.ai/","provided_by":"directory","verification":"public_web_researched","reviewed_at":"2026-11-06","claim_scope":"Profile facts were researched from the linked public sources and have not yet been manually confirmed by the listing owner; independent review claims are published separately."},"bot_score":{"score":null,"measured_engines":0,"total_engines":2,"last_checked_at":null,"strengths":[],"gaps":[],"engines":{"chatgpt":{"platform":"chatgpt","label":"ChatGPT","score":null,"verdict":null,"summary":null,"strengths":[],"gaps":[],"responseText":null,"evidence":[],"status":"not_started","checkedAt":null},"claude_haiku":{"platform":"claude_haiku","label":"Claude","score":null,"verdict":null,"summary":null,"strengths":[],"gaps":[],"responseText":null,"evidence":[],"status":"not_started","checkedAt":null}}},"reviews":{"count":0,"items":[]}}