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TiDB Cloud StarterTiDB Cloud Starter

DatabasesFree Option AvailableVerified 1/1/1970

TiDB Cloud Starter is a fully managed, multi-tenant TiDB offering. It delivers an instant, autoscaling MySQL-compatible database and offers a generous free quota and consumption based billing once free limits are exceeded. The free plan is ideal for those who are getting started with TiDB Cloud Starter. It provides developers and small teams with the following essential features: No cost: This plan is free when usage is within the free quota. No credit card is required to get started. Storage: Provides an initial 5 GiB of row-based storage and 5 GiB of columnar storage. Request Units: Includes 50 million Request Units (RUs) for database operations.

Pricing Information

Free OptionThis solution offers a free tier or free trial.

(The free plan includes up to 5 clusters with 5 GiB of row-based and columnar storage each, and 50 million RUs per month.)

Free

$0 / month

  • 5 GiB row-based storage
  • 5 GiB columnar storage
  • 50 million RUs

Free quota for up to 5 clusters per organization.

Request Units

$0.1 per 1M RUs

  • Pay per request unit

Row-based Storage

$0.2 per GiB-month

  • Row-based storage pricing

Columnar Storage

$0.05 per GiB-month

  • Columnar storage pricing

TiDB Cloud Essential Preview

≈$20 / day / day

  • Provisioned compute with autoscaling up to 100K Request Units
  • Point-in-time backup and up to 30-day retention
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest
  • 99.99% availability with multi-zone protection

Usage-based, autoscaling compute

TiDB Cloud Premium Preview

Starts from $1800 / month / month

  • Provisioned compute with autoscaling to support unlimited growth
  • Enterprise-grade security featuring CMEK, PrivateLink, and VPC Peering
  • 99.99% availability with multi-zone protection

Unlimited growth with autoscaling

TiDB Cloud Dedicated

Starts from $0.22/hr / hour

  • 4 vCPU to 32 vCPU per node available
  • PCI-DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliant

Fully-managed cloud DBaaS for applications with predictable traffic and advanced requirements

For the most accurate and detailed pricing information, please visit the official website.

About TiDB Cloud Starter

TiDB Cloud Starter is a fully managed, multi-tenant TiDB offering. It delivers an instant, autoscaling MySQL-compatible database and offers a generous free quota and consumption based billing once free limits are exceeded. The free plan is ideal for those who are getting started with TiDB Cloud Starter. It provides developers and small teams with the following essential features: No cost: This plan is free when usage is within the free quota. No credit card is required to get started. Storage: Provides an initial 5 GiB of row-based storage and 5 GiB of columnar storage. Request Units: Includes 50 million Request Units (RUs) for database operations.

Key Features

  • Auto-scaling
  • Managed service
  • MySQL compatibility
  • Free tier
  • Request Unit pricing
  • Point-in-time backup
  • Enterprise-grade security
  • 99.99% availability

Integrations

TiKVTiSparkOSS InsightApache SparkApache KafkaApache Flink

Supported Platforms

AWSAlibaba CloudGoogle CloudAzure

Free Tier

The free plan includes up to 5 clusters with 5 GiB of row-based and columnar storage each, and 50 million RUs per month.

Listing Information

Added on: March 19, 2025
Last updated: July 11, 2026