topic Re: Are Clusters Available Databricks Free Edition in Databricks Free Edition Help

Are Clusters Available Databricks Free Edition

Carlton — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 22:01:42 GMT

Hi Community,

Can someone let me know if its possible to create compute clusters in Databricks Free Edition. It was available in the old Databricks Community Edition.

This is quite important as a lot of my code relies on spark executions.

Re: Are Clusters Available Databricks Free Edition

Carlton — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:32:00 GMT

Hello Community,

Can I get your thoughts on this question please?

Re: Are Clusters Available Databricks Free Edition

szymon_dybczak — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:10:53 GMT

Hi @Carlton ,

Unfortunately, in Free Edition only serverless compute is available. So you can't create classic compute like in Community Edition.
If you need an access to classic compute you can try Databricks trial (free for 14 days) or get access to regular Databricks. Or if you don't need any databricks specific options and you want only learn pyspark you can use docker container with preconfigured pyspark 🙂