TiDB Cloud pricing
13 plans read from pingcap.com
TiDB Cloud StarterFree Starts from $0/month; free quotas apply per organization25 GiB row storage · 25 GiB column storage · 250M Request Units per month Read 20 Sep 2026 · pingcap.com
TiDB Cloud EssentialPrice not published 100K Request Units Read 20 Sep 2026 · pingcap.com
TiDB Cloud Premium$1,800 a month Public preview99.99% availability Read 20 Sep 2026 · pingcap.com
TiDB Cloud Dedicated$0.22 a month Starts from $0.22/hr; Starts from $1376 / month4 vCPU to 32 vCPU per node; available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure; PCI-DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliant Read 29 Sep 2026 · pingcap.com
StarterFree Pay for usage beyond free allowance25 GiB row storage · 25 GiB columnar storage · 250M Request Units per organization across up to five eligible instances Read 15 Oct 2026 · pingcap.com
TiDB Cloud StarterFree Starts from $0/month25 GiB row storage + 25 GiB column storage + 250M RUs free per month per organization; $0.20 per additional GiB storage; $0.10 per additional 1M RUs; spend limits available; scales to zero Read 29 Sep 2026 · pingcap.com
Essential$400 a month Minimum capacity charges; storage and other services extraPublic preview · autoscaling within compute limit · point-in-time recovery · encryption in transit and at rest Read 15 Oct 2026 · pingcap.com
Dedicated$1,376 a month Starting cluster price; varies by provider, region and configurationAWS, Google Cloud or Azure · configurable node sizes and counts · independent compute and storage scaling · private endpoints · automated backups Read 15 Oct 2026 · pingcap.com
Premium$1,800 a month Minimum capacity charges; storage and other services extraPublic preview · isolated compute, storage and network · private connectivity · customer-managed keys · 99.99% availability Read 15 Oct 2026 · pingcap.com
TiDB Cloud Premium Preview$1,800 a month Starts from $1800 / monthProvisioned compute with autoscaling for unlimited growth; 99.99% availability with multi-zone protection; CMEK, PrivateLink, and VPC Peering Read 29 Sep 2026 · pingcap.com
BYOCPriced on request TiDB Cloud service and support fees plus infrastructure billed by your cloud providerPublic preview · data plane in customer cloud account · managed operations Read 15 Oct 2026 · pingcap.com
Lake DedicatedPriced on request Warehouse compute and cloud services contact sales; storage $23/TB-monthPublic preview · isolated environment · custom resources · scheduled upgrades Read 15 Oct 2026 · pingcap.com
TiDB Cloud Essential PreviewPriced on request Typical small prod: ≈$20 / dayProvisioned compute with autoscaling up to 100K Request Units; point-in-time backup with up to 30-day retention; encrypted in transit and at rest Read 29 Sep 2026 · pingcap.com
In short
- TiDB Cloud has a free plan (TiDB Cloud Starter).
- Paid plans published: 6, from $0.22 a month.
- 3 plans are priced on request (BYOC, Lake Dedicated, TiDB Cloud Essential Preview).
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Firestore | — | Yes | Yes |
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| Azure SQL Database | — | Yes | No |
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