Event Forwarder adds a free tier on Starter plans
Event Forwarder sends the events you track with GrowthBook SDKs or the Ingestion API to your own BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks warehouse. In GrowthBook 5.2, Starter plans can forward 1M events per month for free, and Pro plans include 2M events per month.
When it helps
Event Forwarder fits a team that already has a warehouse but no event pipeline for experiments. GrowthBook creates events, experiment_viewed, and feature_usage tables in your warehouse and streams enriched events into them. GrowthBook then builds a Fact Table and customizes the data source's experiment assignment queries.
How the plan allowances work
Before this release, Event Forwarder was available only to Pro and Enterprise accounts that GrowthBook enabled on request. The allowances now depend on your plan:
- Starter plans can forward up to 1M events per calendar month (UTC). GrowthBook notifies you at 80% of the limit. Once you exceed the limit, forwarding stops for the rest of the month and resumes automatically on the 1st. Events that arrive while forwarding is stopped are accepted but not delivered.
- Pro plans include 2M events per month and have no cap. Events beyond the included amount are billed at the rate on the GrowthBook pricing page.
- Enterprise allowances are custom.
Event Forwarder runs on GrowthBook Cloud only, and each organization can have one.
Getting started
Open Data Sources, add or edit a BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks data source, and set up forwarding from its Event Forwarder card. Your warehouse connection needs write access. Snowflake also must use key-pair authentication. You can track forwarded events on Settings > Usage. The Event Forwarder docs list the required permissions, SDK versions, and regions.
