Pricing
PingCAP pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
TiDB Cloud Starter: free tier with 25 GiB row storage, 25 GiB column storage, and 250M Request Units (RUs) per month per organization; additional storage at $0.20/GiB and $0.10/1M RUs; supports scale-to-zero. TiDB Cloud Essential (preview): usage-based autoscaling compute up to 100K RU, point-in-time backup, 99.99% multi-zone availability; approximately $20/day for a small production workload. TiDB Cloud Dedicated: starts at $0.22/hr (approximately $1,376/month for a 4 vCPU baseline configuration); available on AWS, GCP, and Azure; PCI-DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliant. TiDB Self-Managed: pricing upon request; supports on-premises, private cloud, and hybrid environments. TiDB Community (open-source): free to download and self-host under Apache 2.0.