MongoDB Atlas pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe MongoDB Atlas pricing
MongoDB Atlas Vector Search — vector search is included in Atlas pricing, with a free M0 tier and a Flex tier capped at $30/month.
Compared to: Pinecone · PostgreSQL · Qdrant
Quick pricing summary
- Free (M0): $0 hour
- Flex: $0.011 hour (up to $30/month)
- Dedicated: $0.08 hour (starts at $56.94/month)
- Atlas Infinite (Public Preview): $0.09 hour
- Enterprise Advanced (Self-managed): Custom (contact sales)
- Worth noting: Pay-as-you-go, billed hourly with monthly invoices. Dedicated tiers M10 $0.08/hr to M700 $33.26/hr. Prices vary by cloud provider and region. Credits for startups, educators ($500), students ($50).
Plans
Free (M0)
$0 hour
- 512MB of storage
- Shared RAM
- Shared vCPU
- Free forever
- Up to 100 operations per second
Flex
$0.011 hour (up to $30/month)
- 5GB of storage
- Shared RAM
- Shared vCPU
- On-demand burst capacity
- Usage-based: $8 to $30 per month
Dedicated
$0.08 hour (starts at $56.94/month)
- 10GB to 4TB of storage
- 2GB to 768GB RAM
- 2 to 96 vCPUs
- Auto-scaling
- Sharded clusters (M30+)
Atlas Infinite (Public Preview)
$0.09 hour
- Decoupled compute and storage
- Up to 128TB per HA shard
- 1M+ IOPS burst performance
- Available on M10+ dedicated clusters
Enterprise Advanced (Self-managed)
Custom contact sales
- MongoDB Enterprise Server
- Ops Manager and Cloud Manager
- Kubernetes Operator
- Enterprise security features
- Commercial license
- Consultative support
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Free (M0) | Flex | Dedicated | Atlas Infinite (Public Preview) | Enterprise Advanced (Self-managed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storage | 512MB | 5GB | 10GB to 4TB | Up to 128TB per HA shard | Self-managed |
| RAM | Shared | Shared | 2GB to 768GB | Dedicated (M10+) | Self-managed |
| vCPU | Shared | Shared | 2 to 96 vCPUs | Dedicated (M10+) | Self-managed |
| Backups | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Atlas SQL Interface (Data Federation) | $5 per TB processed (10MB minimum per query) | Atlas |
| Online Archive | $5 per TB processed plus regional storage rates | Dedicated clusters |
| Atlas Data Lake | From $0.048 per GB per month | Atlas |
| Paid Support plans | See pricing | Atlas |
| MongoDB Search and Vector Search | See pricing | Atlas / Enterprise Advanced |
MongoDB Atlas pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB Atlas | Free; paid from $0.011 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| Pinecone | Free; paid from $20 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Production AI applications, from solo developers and small teams to mission-critical enterprise deployments | Compare → |
| PostgreSQL | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Qdrant | Contact sales | Yes | Usage-based | Developers and teams building RAG, semantic search and recommendation systems that need hybrid search and metadata filtering, either self-hosted or managed | Compare → |
| Weaviate | Free; paid from $45 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Development teams and enterprises building search, RAG and agent applications who want an open-source, production-ready vector database. | Compare → |
List prices as published on www.mongodb.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.