PingCAP

Automated

Distributed SQL database platform built on TiDB

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Active plans

Total changes

Last change

May 17, 2026

Price trend

What we know about PingCAP’s pricing

Moderately active

Changes in 12 months

Cadence

Multiple changes per day

Direction

New plan recently added

Category position

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Current pricing

TiDB Cloud Starter

monthly

Free

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)

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

PingCAP alternatives.

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Cloud providers(AWS, Alibaba Cloud)

TiDB Cloud Essential

usage based

$20/usage_based

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/usage_based

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

custom

Custom

Deployment(Self-managed on any infrastructure)
Cloud providers(Any cloud, on-prem, hybrid)
Kubernetes(Highly compatible)
Integrations(Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink)

TiDB Community

one time

Free

Type(Open-source, distributed SQL database)
Distribution(Download)

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