TiDB Cloud

DB 6.4/10 Jun 18, 2026

Free quota 25 GiB row + 25 GiB column storage + 250M RUs/org/mo; then $0.10/1M RUs, row storage $0.20/GiB-mo, columnar $0.05/GiB-mo. Up to 100 instances free.

Card required: No

TiDB Cloud scores 6.4/10 for free value in DB. The main constraint: Paid — usage-based (free quota then $0.10/1M RUs). Free quota 25 GiB row + 25 GiB column storage + 250M RUs/org/mo; then $0.10/1M RUs, row storage $0.20/GiB-mo, columnar $0.05/GiB-mo. Up to 100 instances free.

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

Free value score

6.4 / 10

Show the math

Overall 6.4/10

value = 6.4/100

weighted_components_v1

Capacity 4.8/10

value = 7.5 $/mo

fixed_log_v1

Operations 7.5/10

value = 7.5/100

policy_score_v1

Production fit 8.8/10

value = 8.8/100

policy_score_v1

Key metrics

25 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.

$0.10/M RU

25 GiB

250M RUs

What you get

Paid — usage-based (free quota then $0.10/1M RUs). Free quota 25 GiB row + 25 GiB column storage + 250M RUs/org/mo; then $0.10/1M RUs, row storage $0.20/GiB-mo, columnar $0.05/GiB-mo. Up to 100 instances free.

~10M RUs per $1 plus 5 GiB columnar storage per $0.25 — exceptional HTAP value; MySQL-compatible distributed SQL with scale-to-zero

Gotchas

25 GiB storage + 250M RUs/mo free

The Starter free quota is 25 GiB row + 25 GiB column storage and 250M Request Units per org per month; overage is $0.10/1M RUs.
Per-org free quota

The free quota is shared across the whole organization, not per cluster.

Sources

"Request Units Price | $0.1 per 1M RUs ... Row-based Storage Price | $0.2 per GiB-month | Columnar Storage Price | $0.05 per GiB-month"
https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-cloud-starter-pricing-details/
"each Organization can get 25 GiB of row storage, 25 GiB of column storage, and 250M Request Units (RUs) for free per month."
https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-cloud-starter-pricing-details/

paid value databases

Open service Source ← All DB

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