CockroachDB Cloud

cockroachlabs.com · Databases and KV, Storage · 3 records · JSON

CockroachDB Cloud Basic Databases and KVcaveatemailcardDretention-clamped
CockroachDB Cloud (Basic tier) Storagefails: quotacardcardR
CockroachDB Cloud (Basic) / Continuum Storagefails: quotacardcardR

CockroachDB Cloud Basic Databases and KV

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www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/free-trial · distributed SQL · databases-kv/cockroachdb-basic · JSON · compare

Free tier	'When you sign up for CockroachDB Cloud, your new organization's account starts with $400 in free credits, allowing you to try the product at no cost.' The page states no trial length. unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	10 GiB storage per organization on the recurring allowance; no per-object cap is published
Retention	no trial length is stated; billing starts on the day the last credit is used, or on credit expiry, and a 30-day grace period follows if no payment method is added
Egress	data transfer leaving the cluster is billed separately and the free-trial and Basic plan pages publish no included transfer allowance and no per-GB rate; recorded as a gap after checking both
Identity	email GitHub, Google, Microsoft or an email address and password; a name, company and email verification on the email path; a payment method only at the end of the trial
Limits	volume-quota USD 400 of credits, with no published expiry source the trial length is not published; the record's earlier 30 days is not supported by the page
Binding	retention-clamped the request-unit counter throttles and the storage cap refuses writes, but both are recoverable. The 30-day deletion after the trial credits end is not: it removes every cluster in the organization and the page states they cannot be restored.
Interface	rest, cli the Postgres wire protocol with CockroachDB extensions; a Cloud API and the cockroach CLI
Tooling	psql-compatible clients, the cockroach CLI, the Cloud API
Composes with	the only free tier above 10 GiB of card-free-capable relational storage, if the card question resolves in your favour
Reliability	no inactivity power-off; Request Unit consumption scales to zero when the cluster is idle. The trial path ends in an unrecoverable deletion 30 days after the credits run out without a payment method
Notes	The pricing page carries two different Standard rates and prices the product as 'Cockroach Continuum' from 2026-09-15. RAM is never stated. No arbitrary process can be hosted; the credit buys a managed database.
Evidence rung	documented two first-party pages were read today: the free-trial page for the credits, the grace period and the deletion sentence, and the Basic plan page for scale-to-zero and the storage-limit behaviour.
Checked	2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-23	www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/free-trial	quoted: 'your new organization's account starts with $400 in free credits' and 'If the trial ends and a payment method has not been provided, a 30 day grace period begins.'
2026-10-23	www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/	quoted: Standard '$0.092 per vCPU-hour', footer 'Standard from $0.057 / vCPU-hr' (the page contradicts itself), Mission Critical $0.162

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 "hourly_usd": {
  "standard_vcpu": 0.092,
  "mission_critical_vcpu": 0.162,
  "standard_vcpu_footer": 0.057
 },
 "rate_conflict": "the Standard card reads USD 0.092 per vCPU-hour and the footer table reads 'Standard from $0.057 / vCPU-hr' on the same page"
}

Corrections

2026-10-23 The credit ladder was widened to twenty, and nine more claims moved
2026-10-22 CockroachDB Basic's trial was recorded as ending in "interruption", and it ends in an unrecoverable deletion

CockroachDB Cloud (Basic tier) Storage

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www.cockroachlabs.com/ · paas · storage/cockroachdb-cloud · JSON · compare

Free tier	$15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org, equivalent to 50 million Request Units AND 10 GiB of storage per month unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	10 GiB storage/month free allowance; 50M RUs/month; 30K RU/sec ceiling on Basic; the legacy 'Serverless free tier' (5 GiB + 50M RUs, no card) has been replaced — current signup is $400 credit for 30 days then the $15/month Basic allowance (30 days)
Egress	Not separately charged (storage + RUs are the meters); but the free allowance is denominated in dollars, so ANY overage converts to a bill. Effectively metered.
Identity	card derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: $15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org, equivalent to 50 million Request Units AND 10 GiB of storage
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest, cli rest
Tooling	psql / any Postgres wire client (CockroachDB is PG-wire compatible), `cockroach` CLI, Cloud API
Composes with	The $15 credit is per ORG, and the 10 GiB is a monthly allowance, not a permanent bucket. New orgs get a separate $400 30-day trial. There is no documented per-account cap on the number of orgs, so 50 orgs x 10 GiB = 500 GB in principle — but each org requires a distinct signup and a payment method to keep the $15 recurring benefit, which is a much higher friction per byte than Telegram or a drive.
Reliability	Very reliable, but the free tier is a dollar credit rather than a hard quota, so a runaway query or a large storage footprint silently converts to charges. Storage is billed on logical GiB with 3 replicas included.
Notes	$15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org, equivalent to 50 million Request Units AND 10 GiB of storage per month
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/plan-your-cluster	'Each pay-as-you-go CockroachDB Cloud organization ... is given $15 of resource consumption (equivalent to 50 million Request Units and 10 GiB of storage) for free each month.'
2026-10-21	www.cockroachlabs.com/free-tier/1a/	'$400 in free credits to start—no credit card required'; 'New users get $400 in free credits to use within the first 30 days.'
2026-10-21	www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/quickstart	'$400 in free-trial free trial credits ... you will need to [add a payment method] by the end of the trial'

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Unknown or withheld values (5)

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CockroachDB Cloud (Basic) / Continuum Storage

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www.cockroachlabs.com · paas · storage/cockroachdb-cloud-continuum · JSON · compare

Free tier	$15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org = 50M Request Units + 10 GiB storage/month unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	No separate egress charge on Basic — billing is storage GiB + Request Units. So egress is effectively free within the RU budget, and reads are the meter.
Identity	card derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: $15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org = 50M Request Units + 10 GiB storage/month Cluster is DISA
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest, cli rest
Tooling	Postgres wire protocol (psql, any driver), `cockroach` CLI, Cloud API; no object storage — bytes must live in tables/BYTEA
Composes with	The $15 credit is per ORGANIZATION and explicitly spendable 'across all CockroachDB Basic clusters in an organization'. It is a monthly consumable, not a standing quota — 10 GiB is the storage-equivalent, and multi-region replication multiplies storage 3-5x against the same credit. New orgs get a $400 trial credit on top.
Reliability	Cluster is DISABLED when RU budget is exhausted — a hard stop mid-month, not throttling. Replication factor 3 eats the storage budget 3x.
Notes	$15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org = 50M Request Units + 10 GiB storage/month
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/plan-your-cluster-	'$15 of resource consumption (equivalent to 50 million Request Units and 10 GiB of storage) for free each month ... can be spent across all CockroachDB Basic clusters in an organization'
2026-10-21	www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/	'This pricing applies to Cockroach Continuum for anyone getting started or adding new database deployments on or after September 15, 2026'

More fields (1)

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 }
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Unknown or withheld values (6)

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$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted