TiDB pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Starter: $0 month
- Essential (Public Preview): $400 month (compute from)
- Premium (Public Preview): $1,800 month (compute from)
- Dedicated: $1,376 month (cluster from)
- BYOC (Public Preview): Custom ()
- TiDB Cloud Lake Personal (Public Preview): $1.6 hour (warehouse compute from)
- TiDB Cloud Lake Business (Public Preview): $2.4 hour (warehouse compute from)
- TiDB Cloud Lake Dedicated (Public Preview): Custom ()
- Worth noting: All prices in USD. Starting prices; rates vary by cloud provider, region and configuration. Storage, backup, data transfer billed separately for Essential/Premium. Lake compute billed per second while running. Open-source TiDB Community also available.
Plans
Starter
$0 month
- Free monthly allowance: 25 GiB row storage, 25 GiB columnar storage, 250M Request Units per organization
- Request Units from $0.10/million RUs
- Row storage from $0.20/GiB-month
- Columnar storage from $0.05/GiB-month
- Scales to zero when idle, spend limits
Essential (Public Preview)
$400 month (compute from)
- Autoscaling within your compute limit
- Point-in-time recovery
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- Storage and other services extra
Premium (Public Preview)
$1,800 month (compute from)
- Isolated compute, storage, and network
- Private connectivity and customer-managed keys
- 99.99% availability with multi-zone protection
- Storage and other services extra
Dedicated
$1,376 month (cluster from)
- Configurable node sizes and counts
- Independent compute and storage scaling
- Private endpoints and automated backups
- AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
BYOC (Public Preview)
Custom
- Run TiDB as a managed service in your cloud account
- TiDB Cloud service and support fees
- Infrastructure billed by your cloud provider
TiDB Cloud Lake Personal (Public Preview)
$1.6 hour (warehouse compute from)
- Storage $23/TB-month
- Cloud services $1/10,000 API requests
- On-demand warehouse compute
- Up to 1 day of data history
TiDB Cloud Lake Business (Public Preview)
$2.4 hour (warehouse compute from)
- Storage $23/TB-month
- Cloud services $2/10,000 API requests
- Private connectivity with PrivateLink
- Up to 90 days of data history
TiDB Cloud Lake Dedicated (Public Preview)
Custom
- Storage $23/TB-month
- Cloud services: Contact Sales
- Isolated environment with custom resources
- Scheduled upgrades to fit your operations
TiDB pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TiDB | Free; paid from $400 / 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 → |
| 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 → |
| PostgreSQL | — | — | — | — | 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.pingcap.com/pricing/. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.