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TiDB Pricing Overview

TiDB at a glance

TiDB Cloud has two products, TiDB Cloud Serverless and TiDB Cloud Dedicated.
For TiDB Cloud Serverless, both the compute and storage are on demand model with large free quota to attract developers. And TiDB Cloud Serverless can automatically scale, even scale to zero, which is very friendly for applications with unpredictable workloads.
For TiDB Cloud Dedicated, the pricing model is traditional node based pricing, which is common for DBMS productions. The customer will be charged based on the instance, provision storage, backup and data transfer usage.

TiDB has 3 pricing editions. Look at different pricing editions below and see what edition and features meet your budget and needs.
NamePriceFeatures
TiDB Cloud Serverless
Free TrialPer Month
Fully-managed cloud DBaaS for applications with variable workloads, available on AWS.
  • 25 GB of row storage, 25 GB of column storage, and 250M Request Units (RUs) for free per month for each organization
  • $0.20 per additional GB of storage
  • $0.10 per additional 1M RUs
  • Pay only for the storage and capacity you use
  • Set spend limits so you don’t go over budget
TiDB Cloud Dedicated
Pay As You GoPer Month
Fully-managed cloud DBaaS for applications with predictable traffic and advanced requirements, available on AWS and Google Cloud.
  • 4 vCPU to 32 vCPU per node available
  • PCI-DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliant
TiDB Self-Managed
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Self-managed database for applications with advanced configura­tion requirements. Runs on nearly any infrastructure or cloud provider.
  • Deploy on infrastructure of choice, across multiple cloud platforms (public or private), on-prem data centers, or hybrid environments
  • Highly compatible with Kubernetes; integrations available with Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and others

TiDB pricing & plans

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Pricing information for TiDB is supplied by the software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase TiDB must be conducted with the seller.

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Pricing information was last updated on January 23, 2025
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TiDB Pricing Reviews

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What do you like best about TiDB?

TiDB solves the issue of MySQL’s large single instances being unable to scale up.

TiDB provides a relatively convenient way to scale up and down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TiDB?

TiDB is a bit more expensive.

TiDB requires powerful hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TiDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

TiDB leverages a distributed architecture to solve the problem of slow scaling with single-instance MySQL, and delivers superior performance in most scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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