CrateDB Cloud

cratedb.com · Compute · 1 record · JSON

CrateDB Cloud Compute

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cratedb.com/pricing · cloud VM · compute/cratedb-cloud · JSON · compare

Free tier	Free plan, quoted: 'Free Plan Available', 'Shared environment', 'Single node', 'Free plan with 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, and 8 GB storage (no credit card required)', 'Backups (once per day)'. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-free
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email no card: the pricing page states 'Free plan with 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, and 8 GB storage (no credit card required)'. No hold exists because no payment method is taken on the free plan. The signup fields are not quoted, so the email requirement is inferred rather than read, and debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated.
Limits	per-object-cap 8 GB of storage fails first; 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM are enough for a small ingest and query loop but not for a parallel scan over the full 8 GB. source 8 GB of storage fails first; 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM are enough for a small ingest and query loop but not for a parallel scan over the full 8 GB.
Binding	per-object-cap 8 GB of storage fails first; 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM are enough for a small ingest and query loop but not for a parallel scan over the full 8 GB.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	CrateDB is distributed SQL with a Postgres wire protocol, so it accepts ordinary Postgres clients; 8 GB with a daily backup is the only free tier that states a backup schedule at all.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The page lists the free plan inside the Shared card whose headline capacity is 'Up to 8 shared vCPUs and 12 GB RAM' and 'Up to 1 TB storage', which is the paid shared ceiling, not the free one; the parenthetical sentence is the free plan. Whether the free cluster suspends after inactivity is not stated. No probe was run.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 8.0 GB

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	cratedb.com/pricing	'Free plan with 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, and 8 GB storage (no credit card required)' and 'Backups (once per day)', quoted

More fields (1)

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  "free_tier_kind": "perpetual-free",
  "shape": {
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   "ram_gib": 2,
   "disk_gib": 8
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated