TiDB Pricing Overview

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TiDB Cloud Serverless

Free Trial

Per Month

Fully-managed cloud DBaaS for applications with variable workloads, available on AWS.

TiDB Cloud Dedicated

Pay As You Go

Per Month

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Fully-managed cloud DBaaS for applications with predictable traffic and advanced requirements, available on AWS and Google Cloud.

TiDB Self-Managed

Self-managed database for applications with advanced configuration requirements. Runs on nearly any infrastructure or cloud provider.

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.

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

Pricing Insights

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

5 months

Return on Investment

5 months

Perceived Cost

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TiDB Pricing Reviews

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He Z.

Head of DBA

Information Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/20/2025

"TiDB is a good fit for enterprise big data platform"

5/5

What do you like best about TiDB?

As a DBA with a foundation in MySQL, moving to TiDB requires almost no learning cost and is very user-friendly.

Each component in the TiDB cluster has achieved high availability design.

The Resource Control feature was good for the multi-tenant needs of different businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TiDB?

Upgrading across major versions may encounter some unknown issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The performance of single node MySQL will be limited in scenarios such as high concurrency writes and complex SQL queries, and it can not support direct delivery of data to Flink. By moving to TiDB, we built a real-time data warehouse framework with Flink which applied for the enterprise data hub. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/14/2025

"Great but costly"

3.5/5

What do you like best about TiDB?

tidb has both analytical and transactional nodes. so it will be helpful analytical kind of queries. we can scale compute and data nodes individually based on usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TiDB?

tidb is bit costly compared to other sql db. if we are going to run a very basic app, its going to cost you more, because we need 3 compute nodes by default and its costly. Most of the features and dashboards are available only for self hosting not for cloud hosting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.