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DB 6.8/10

Basic: 50M RUs + 10 GiB storage free/mo, scales to zero, no card. Standard: provisioned, predictable distributed-SQL pricing with metrics export, private connectivity; $400 trial c

Free credit
$400
Card required
No

CockroachDB Cloud scores 6.8/10 for free value in DB. The main constraint: Paid — usage-based (Basic free tier; Standard provisioned). Basic: 50M RUs + 10 GiB storage free/mo, scales to zero, no card. Standard: provisioned, predictable distributed-SQL pricing with metrics export, private connectivity; $400 trial credits.

Category DB Kind Paid plan Renewal monthly Card required No Eligibility anyone

Free value score

6.8 / 10
Show the math
Overall 6.8/10
value = 6.8/100
weighted_components_v1
Capacity 6.2/10
value = 400 $ one-time
fixed_log_v1
Operations 6.6/10
value = 6.6/100
policy_score_v1
Production fit 8.8/10
value = 8.8/100
policy_score_v1

Key metrics

10 GB Storage
1 reads/mo Reads policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly read allowance is published in this item.
1 writes/mo Writes policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly write allowance is published in this item.
50M RUs
10 GiB
free Basic

What you get

Paid — usage-based (Basic free tier; Standard provisioned). Basic: 50M RUs + 10 GiB storage free/mo, scales to zero, no card. Standard: provisioned, predictable distributed-SQL pricing with metrics export, private connectivity; $400 trial credits.

Free Basic covers small apps; Standard is cheapest path to multi-region distributed SQL with serializable consistency

Gotchas

  • 50M RUs + 10 GiB/mo free

    The Basic tier includes 50M Request Units and 10 GiB storage free per month and scales to zero; overage is usage-based.

  • Scales to zero when idle

    Basic clusters scale to zero when idle, adding cold-start latency on the next query.

Sources

paid value databases
Open service Source ← All DB

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