CrateDB pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Shared: $0.073 hour (starting)
- Dedicated: $0.246 hour (starting, incl. basic support)
- Custom: Custom (contact us)
- Worth noting: CrateDB Cloud pricing. Prices are starting hourly rates. Payment via credit card, invoicing, or AWS/Azure/GCP marketplace. Enterprise and OSS deployment options also offered.
Plans
Shared
$0.073 hour (starting)
- For non-critical workloads
- Shared environment
- Single node
- Up to 8 shared vCPUs and 12 GB RAM
- Up to 1 TB storage
- Development support
- Free plan with 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, and 8 GB storage (no credit card required)
- Backups (once per day)
Dedicated
$0.246 hour (starting, incl. basic support)
- For production workloads
- Dedicated environment
- Up to 9 nodes
- Up to 144 vCPUs and 495 GB RAM
- Up to 72 TB storage
- Basic support included
- Premium support available
- Uptime SLAs
- AWS / Azure Private Link
- Backups (once per hour)
Custom
Custom contact us
- For large production workloads
- Dedicated environment
- Unlimited number of nodes
- Custom compute options (both vCPUs and RAM)
- Unlimited storage
- Premium support
- Uptime SLAs
- AWS / Azure Private Link
- Custom Backups
- Dedicated master nodes
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Shared | Dedicated | Custom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environment | Shared | Dedicated | Dedicated |
| Nodes | Single node | Up to 9 nodes | Unlimited |
| Compute | Up to 8 shared vCPUs and 12 GB RAM | Up to 144 vCPUs and 495 GB RAM | Custom compute options |
| Storage | Up to 1 TB | Up to 72 TB | Unlimited |
| Support | Development support | Basic support included; premium available | Premium support |
| Uptime SLAs | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AWS / Azure Private Link | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Backups | Once per day | Once per hour | Custom |
| Dedicated master nodes | — | — | ✓ |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Premium support | not stated | Dedicated |
CrateDB pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrateDB | Free; paid from $0.073 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| PostgreSQL | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Elasticsearch | — | — | — | Teams building AI search, RAG and vector applications, and organizations that want search, observability and security on one data platform. | Compare → |
| MongoDB Atlas | Free; paid from $0.011 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Development teams building AI applications and agents that need operational data, vectors and search in one platform | Compare → |
List prices as published on cratedb.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.