InfluxDB Cloud Serverless

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InfluxDB Cloud Serverless Compute

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www.influxdata.com/influxdb-pricing/ · managed database · compute/influxdb-cloud-serverless · JSON · compare

Free tier	Two offers on one page. The Free Plan, quoted from the docs: 'New InfluxDB Cloud Serverless accounts start with the Free Plan that provides a limited number of resources and data usage' with 'Data-in: Rate of 5 MB per 5 minutes (average of 17 kb/s)', 'HTTP response payload rate: 300 MB data per 5 minutes', '2 buckets', and '30 days of data retention'. The paid path adds 'a $250 credit for 30 days upon upgrade'. unit minutes; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-free
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email no card: the pricing page lists 'No credit card required' beside the Cloud Serverless offer, and the sign-up docs limit a Free Plan user to one organization. No hold exists because no payment method is taken for the free plan. The signup fields are not quoted, so the email requirement is inferred rather than read, and debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated.
Limits	request-rate the ingest rate is the ceiling, not a volume: 5 MB per 5 minutes is about 1.4 GiB a day and cannot be burst, so a backfill of historical measurements fails at the rate limit even though the plan has no monthly volume cap. source the ingest rate is the ceiling, not a volume: 5 MB per 5 minutes is about 1.4 GiB a day and cannot be burst, so a backfill of historical measurements fails at the rate limit even though the plan has no monthly volume cap.
Binding	request-rate the ingest rate is the ceiling, not a volume: 5 MB per 5 minutes is about 1.4 GiB a day and cannot be burst, so a backfill of historical measurements fails at the rate limit even though the plan has no monthly volume cap.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	a perpetual 30-day-retention time series with 2 buckets is the metrics sink for a free-tier application estate, and 17 kb/s is enough for a few hundred gauges at scrape intervals of a minute.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The page advertises the USD 250 credit prominently and buries the perpetual Free Plan in the docs, which inverts the usual pattern and is worth recording. Retention is 30 days, so this cannot hold history. The vendor states the rate limits suit 5 to 10 sensors.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:request-rate 5.0 MB

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	docs.influxdata.com/influxdb3/cloud-serverless/admin/billing	Free Plan: 'Data-in: Rate of 5 MB per 5 minutes (average of 17 kb/s)', 'HTTP response payload rate: 300 MB data per 5 minutes', '2 buckets', '30 days of data retention', quoted
2026-10-22	www.influxdata.com/influxdb-pricing/	Cloud Serverless lists '- $250 free credit to start', 'No minimum commitment', 'Multi-tenant - Service quotas apply - No HA' and 'No credit card required', quoted
2026-10-22	docs.influxdata.com/influxdb3/cloud-serverless/sign-up/	'Use it as much and as long as you like within the plan rate-limits. Limits are designed to let you monitor 5-10 sensors, stacks or servers comfortably. Users on the Free Plan are limited to one organization.', quoted

More fields (1)

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   "ram_gib": null,
   "disk_gib": null
  }
 }
}

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