DataChain

What your team can finally do.

Impossible with raw bytes. Automatic with Data Context Layer.

Researchers find work, not files.

Search by schema, statistics, or LLM summary. Last quarter's labeled dataset is one prompt away — instead of three engineer-days hunting through Slack for who built it.

Agents reuse, not regenerate.

Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex read schemas, previews, and lineage before they write code. Six hours of recompute become a six-cent read.

Recall replaces recompute.

Read a summary: $0.0001. Run a query: $0.20. Recompute from raw files: $100 and three hours of wall-clock. Same answer, four orders of magnitude apart.

Every result is reproducible.

Each .save() records source code, inputs, author, and time. Audit-ready by construction. A six-month-old experiment re-runs in one line of Python.

Three numbers that move when you adopt DataChain

No headcount changes. No new platform. The math comes from making compute reusable.

AI compute spend

10,000× cheaper

Recall vs recompute. Sense work (LLM annotations, embeddings, classifier passes) is the dominant line item in most AI budgets. CAST persists it once; every later question reads it.

Time to result

weeks → minutes

for questions a teammate already answered. Researchers find the dataset by schema, stats, or LLM summary instead of asking around.

Reproducibility risk

zero

lost experiments. Every dataset carries source code, inputs, author, timestamp, and lineage. Six months later, the result re-runs with one line of Python.

Why DataChain works

Four layers of unstructured data that researchers and AI agents read instead of rebuild.

C·A·S·T=Container·Asset·Sense·Task

T · TASK

insights · curated datasets · data analytics

S · SENSE

ML scoring · LLM responses · embeddings

A · ASSET

audio tracks · frames · clips · np.array · dataset mixtures

C · CONTAINER

h5/jpg/mp4 file headers · JSON sidecars · joint metadata

instant

cached forever

10,000×

cheaper to recall

400×

cheaper to recall

20×

cheaper to recall

s3://gs://az://

Sensor data · Videos · Images · Logs · Docs

In the tradition of Codd (1970), Kimball (1996), Iceberg (2017) — applied to data they never saw.

Empowering startups to Fortune 500 companies

What our customers say

We realized we were solving a problem we shouldn't be solving. With DataChain, what used to require data engineers is now handled seamlessly by researchers - and the whole team moved to the next level.

Yoni Svechinsky

Director of Research | brain.space

DataChain added real value to our workflows - versioned datasets, automated ETL, and MLOps, all in Python. If you need a data management layer on top of cloud storage, give it a try.

Nikhilesh Saggere

Lead Engineer | Alps Alpine Europe

What surprised me was how easily researchers adopted DataChain - data tools are usually hard for non-engineers. What surprised me more was when hardware and QA started asking for access too.

Sharon Kohen

Principal Data Engineering | brain.space

How DataChain captures context

Bytes stay in storage. DataChain captures context from every pipeline.

AI Agents

Claude Code·Cursor·Codex

Humans

Pipelines·Notebooks·UI

DataChain

Knowledge Base

LLM summaries · stats · lineage · code

Dataset DB

Pydantic schemas · versioning · file refs

Compute Engine

distributed · async I/O · checkpoints

Object Storage

S3s3://

GCSgs://

AZaz://

Sensor Data · Videos · Images · Logs · Docs

Distributed Python over your files

Read, transform, and save data at scale. In your own cloud (BYOC).

Open source to start. Studio to scale.

Same SDK. Same datasets. New delivery model.

Open Source

Teams

Enterprise

Delivery

Skill

MCP

MCP

Storage

Your S3, GCS, or Azure — never copied, never moved

Dataset DB

In local files

Centralized

Centralized (BYOC)

Compute Engine

Local machine

Local machine

CPU/GPU clusters (BYOC)

Access control

Single developer

Up to 5 users

Teams + access control

Scale

Millions of records

Billions of records

Billions of records + distributed compute

Price

Free

$70 / team (coming soon)

Your data never leaves your cloud.

Your Cloud

  • Data stays in your S3/GCS/Azure bucket
  • Compute runs in your VPC (BYOC)
  • No data copying or egress
  • You control access and encryption

DataChain

  • Metadata and lineage
  • Control plane, not data plane
  • Role-based access and audit logs
  • SSO & SAML integration

Compliance

  • SOC 2 Type II certified
  • GDPR-ready data processing
  • On-prem deployment available
  • Enterprise security reviews

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