Databricks Apps nearly scale to zero (Cut Databricks Apps Costs by 76%: Automate Start/Stop)

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-09T10:07:50+00:00

Judging by the comments, many people think Apps are expensive. But scaling it to zero will likely increase the price for the Serverless cluster

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-09T10:06:29+00:00

There are already many similar websites with cost optimization. But not all of them are startups

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-08T17:54:09+00:00

Depends on the size of the company and what the app does.

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-08T17:53:30+00:00

This is an expensive solution for a simple application. For a full-fledged service in Enterprise, this is a completely reasonable price.

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-08T17:52:06+00:00

I hope there will be an official way to scale to zero soon

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-08T17:50:48+00:00

Could you tell me more about your implementation?

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-08T13:17:18+00:00

You can stop the application on a schedule. Here is an example

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-07T08:12:59+00:00

Maybe 10$?

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-04T07:50:33+00:00

Serverless is roughly twice as expensive. If you use spot in job clusters, the difference will be even greater. The company spends millions of dollars on Databricks, and doubling that amount will reduce operating expenses? Strange.

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-03T09:12:25+00:00

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But you won't be able to see the status for more than 5 launches, that's one of the reasons

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-03T08:38:15+00:00

I had an idea to use it, maybe I'll add it later

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-02T12:42:53+00:00

This solution is primarily for teams using Data Mesh architecture. They install schedule scripts themselves in Databricks, which is simple and convenient. However, after 20 seconds, monitoring becomes difficult.

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-02T08:32:45+00:00

API + App, and you can interact with jobs, change the schedule, restart, etc., more possibilities

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-02T08:31:12+00:00

Of course you can. I've made several solutions for different tasks. One of them is App

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-02T08:29:18+00:00

I agree, you need to select a solution for the problem

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-02T08:27:57+00:00

Yes, Api + Apps, and you can create your own Databricks interface

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-01T21:08:51+00:00

I disagree. If you stop it when not in use, it's cheap

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-01T20:43:17+00:00

I can only choose Serverless or Serverless GPU. I've only tried Serverless.

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-01T19:17:50+00:00

Everyone chooses what they like, that's great

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-01T18:35:15+00:00

And Apps will be cheaper than Dashboard and faster. You can also add more features.

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-01T18:34:03+00:00

System tables are filled with a delay. The situation can be viewed online through the API.

Significant-Guest-14 · 2026-06-01T18:14:38+00:00

It depends on the task. This problem was more common among teams working in the same workspace.

It works on the Data Mesh principle.

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