TiDB Cloud Starter

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TiDB Cloud Starter Databases and KV

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www.pingcap.com/pricing/ · distributed SQL, MySQL compatible · databases-kv/tidb-cloud-starter · JSON · compare

Free tier	25 GiB row storage plus 25 GiB columnar storage and 250 million Request Units per month, per organization across up to five instances unit GiB; metered on request-count
Price	USD 0.10 per million RUs beyond the allowance
Per-object cap	25 GiB row storage per organization on the allowance; the FAQ states 5 GiB per instance
Retention	an instance persists while the organization is active; no deletion clock published
Egress	no transfer allowance and no per-GB egress rate is published on the pricing page; recorded as a gap. Traffic is billed through the request-unit and storage meters the page does publish
Identity	email email signup for the free allowance; a card only to exceed five instances
Limits	request-rate 250 million Request Units per month on the org allowance; the FAQ prints 50 million per instance source per-object-cap 25 GiB row plus 25 GiB columnar per organization; five instances source write-gated a credit card and a spend limit are required to create more than five Starter instances source request-rate 400 concurrent connections per Starter instance, rising to 5,000 with a spending limit; the public-endpoint idle timeout is 340 seconds source
Binding	request-rate
Interface	rest, cli the MySQL wire protocol with TLS; a Cloud API and the tiup CLI
Tooling	any MySQL client, the tiup CLI, the Data Migration tool
Composes with	the largest card-free relational allowance found in this class, which is why it is the first row a reader should try
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The two pages disagree by a factor of five and the direction matters. 25 GiB per org is the number the pricing page states today; 5 GiB per instance is what the FAQ states. Until one is measured, the conservative reading is 5 GiB per instance and 25 GiB per org across five.
Evidence rung	documented two first-party pages were read and they disagree. The record keeps the conservative per-instance reading and names the disagreement.
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[1].value` limit:per-object-cap 25.0 GiB `$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD0.1 TB / month

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.pingcap.com/pricing/	Free monthly allowance: 25 GiB row storage, 25 GiB columnar storage, 250M Request Units, per organization across up to five eligible instances; rates beyond from USD 0.10 per million RUs
2026-10-22	docs.pingcap.com/tidbcloud/serverless-faqs/	'Always-free monthly quota for up to five TiDB Cloud Starter instances per organization (5 GiB row data + 5 GiB columnar data + 50 million RUs per TiDB Cloud Starter instance)'; 'you can create a maximum of five TiDB Cloud Starter instances by default. To create more ... you need to add a credit card'

More fields (1)

{
 "page_disagreement": "the docs FAQ's figure is the older per-instance plan and the pricing page's is the current org allowance"
}

Unknown or withheld values (1)

$.reliability_note none-observed