Pricing
TiDB Cloud pricing
As pingcap.com lists them, read 20 Sept 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| TiDB Cloud Essential | 100K Request Units | On request |
| TiDB Cloud Premium | Public preview · 99.99% availability | $1,800 a month |
| TiDB Cloud Dedicated | Starts from $0.22/hr; Starts from $1376 / month · 4 vCPU to 32 vCPU per node; available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure; PCI-DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliant | $0.22 a month |
| Starter | Pay for usage beyond free allowance · 25 GiB row storage · 25 GiB columnar storage · 250M Request Units per organization across up to five eligible instances | Free |
| TiDB Cloud Starter | Starts from $0/month · 25 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 | Free |
| Dedicated | Starting cluster price; varies by provider, region and configuration · AWS, Google Cloud or Azure · configurable node sizes and counts · independent compute and storage scaling · private endpoints · automated backups | $1,376 a month |
| Premium | Minimum capacity charges; storage and other services extra · Public preview · isolated compute, storage and network · private connectivity · customer-managed keys · 99.99% availability | $1,800 a month |
| TiDB Cloud Premium Preview | Starts from $1800 / month · Provisioned compute with autoscaling for unlimited growth; 99.99% availability with multi-zone protection; CMEK, PrivateLink, and VPC Peering | $1,800 a month |
| Essential | Minimum capacity charges; storage and other services extra · Public preview · autoscaling within compute limit · point-in-time recovery · encryption in transit and at rest | $400 a month |
| TiDB Cloud Essential Preview | Typical small prod: ≈$20 / day · Provisioned compute with autoscaling up to 100K Request Units; point-in-time backup with up to 30-day retention; encrypted in transit and at rest | On request |
| Lake Dedicated | Warehouse compute and cloud services contact sales; storage $23/TB-month · Public preview · isolated environment · custom resources · scheduled upgrades | On request |
| BYOC | TiDB Cloud service and support fees plus infrastructure billed by your cloud provider · Public preview · data plane in customer cloud account · managed operations | On request |
From pingcap.com.