Active plans
6
Total changes
6
Last change
May 17, 2026
Price trend
no history
What we know about PingCAP’s pricing
Moderately activeChanges in 12 months
6
Cadence
Multiple changes per day
Direction
New plan recently added
Category position
Cheaper than 93% of Data Engineering tools (449 compared)
Current pricing
TiDB Cloud Starter
monthlyFree
- overage$0.2($0.20 per additional GiB of storage)
- overage$0.1($0.10 per additional 1M RUs)
- overage$0.2($0.20 per additional GiB of storage)
- overage$0.1($0.10 per additional 1M RUs)
- Row storage (free)(25 GiB)
- Column storage (free)(25 GiB)
- Request Units (free)(250M RUs/month per org)
- Deployment(Fully-managed cloud DBaaS)
- Cloud providers(AWS, Alibaba Cloud)
- Scale to zero(Yes)
- Spend limits(Yes)
TiDB Cloud Essential
usage based$20
Typical small prod: ≈$20/day
- Compute(Provisioned with autoscaling up to 100K Request Units)
- Backup(Point-in-time backup, up to 30-day retention)
- Security(Encrypted in transit and at rest)
- Availability(99.99% with multi-zone protection)
- Deployment(Fully-managed cloud DBaaS)
- Preview(Yes)
TiDB Cloud Premium
monthly$1,800/mo
Starts from $1800/month
- Compute(Provisioned with autoscaling, unlimited growth)
- Security(CMEK, PrivateLink, VPC Peering)
- Availability(99.99% with multi-zone protection)
- Deployment(Fully-managed cloud DBaaS)
- Preview(Yes)
TiDB Cloud Dedicated
usage based$0.22
Starts from $0.22/hr
- custom$0.22(Starts from $0.22/hr)
- monthly$1,376/mo(Starts from $1376/month)
- vCPU options(4 vCPU to 32 vCPU per node)
- Compliance(PCI-DSS and SOC 2 Type II)
- Cloud providers(AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Deployment(Fully-managed cloud DBaaS)
TiDB Self-Managed
customCustom
- Deployment(Self-managed on any infrastructure)
- Cloud providers(Any cloud, on-prem, hybrid)
- Kubernetes(Highly compatible)
- Integrations(Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink)
TiDB Community
one timeFree
- monthly$0/mo($0/month)
- Type(Open-source, distributed SQL database)
- Distribution(Download)
Price history
Last 6 changes
| Date | Plan | Change | Old | New | Δ% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2026 | TiDB Community | new plan | — | $0 | — |
| May 17, 2026 | TiDB Self-Managed | new plan | — | — | — |
| May 17, 2026 | TiDB Cloud Dedicated | new plan | — | $0.22 | — |
| May 17, 2026 | TiDB Cloud Premium | new plan | — | $1,800 | — |
| May 17, 2026 | TiDB Cloud Essential | new plan | — | $20 | — |
| May 17, 2026 | TiDB Cloud Starter | new plan | — | $0 | — |
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