Tidb Plans Pricing
TiDB (PingCAP) sells TiDB Cloud across four shapes — Starter (free + pay-as-you-go on Request Units and storage), Essential (preview, ~$20/day for typical small production), Premium (preview, $1,800/month entry), and Dedicated ($0.22/hour, $1,376/month minimum) — with TiDB Self-Managed and the open-source TiDB Community as additional options. Starter exposes a meaningful free tier (25 GiB row + 25 GiB column storage, 250M RUs/month per organization).
Plans
Pay-as-you-go serverless tier with a free monthly allowance, spend limits, scale-to-zero, and per-RU/per-GiB metering for variable workloads.
- Pay-as-you-go
- Spend Limits
- Scale to Zero
- Variable Workloads
Usage-based managed tier with autoscaling up to 100K RUs, point-in-time backup (30-day retention), encryption, and 99.99% availability. Approximately $20/day for typical small production instances.
- 30-day Point-in-Time Backup
- Encryption
- 99.99% Availability
- Predictable Costs
Enterprise security (CMEK, PrivateLink, VPC Peering), 99.99% availability, usage-based with unlimited autoscaling.
- CMEK
- PrivateLink
- VPC Peering
- 99.99% Availability
- Unlimited Autoscaling
Dedicated cluster on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure with 4–32 vCPU node options. PCI-DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliant.
- AWS / GCP / Azure
- 4–32 vCPU per node
- PCI-DSS
- SOC 2 Type II
Customer-deployed TiDB on multi-cloud, on-premises, or Kubernetes. Custom pricing per contract.
- Multi-Cloud / On-Premises
- Kubernetes Compatible
Free, open-source distribution of TiDB.
- Open Source (Apache 2.0)