The cloud-native, distributed SQL database
CockroachDB Serverless
Pricing
Start for free and set upper limits for storage and transactional volume per month to fit your budget.
Free
Free for use up to 10 GiB of storage and 50M RUs per organization per month.
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Never Overspend
Define a Spend Limit to prevent overspending. When your cluster hits the limit, requests will be restricted. You can also set up a cluster without limits so your workload is never restricted.
Storage
Storage is the disk space for storing your data in the cluster. The price of storage is $0.50 per additional GiB storage above the 10 GiB free storage given to each organization per month.
Request Units
A request unit (RU) measures the amount of compute and IOPs each query will incur. Every query has varying requirements for resources; RUs are an abstracted metric that represents the size and complexity of these requests. The price of RUs is $0.20 per additional 1M Request Units above the 50M RUs given to each organization per month.
These amounts are reset each month.
Request Unit Cost Estimates
The examples below show cost estimates of some common queries and how they increase with the size and complexity of the query. Note that the prices listed are estimates, and your actual costs may vary slightly.
Reading 1 Row
Reading a 64 byte row is approximately 1 RU, plus 1 RU for each additional KiB.
| Query | RUs per 1 query | Price per 1M queries |
|---|---|---|
| Read 1 row of 64 bytes | 1.03 | $0.21 |
| Read 1 row of 1024 bytes | 1.99 | $0.40 |
| Read 1 row of 2048 bytes | 3.01 | $0.60 |
Writing 1 Row
The cost of writes includes the cost of replicating the write 3 times for high availability and durability, plus 3 RUs for each additional KiB.
| Query | RUs per 1 query | Price per 1M queries |
|---|---|---|
| Write 1 row of 64 bytes | 6.71 | $1.34 |
| Write 1 row of 1024 bytes | 9.59 | $1.92 |
| Write 1 row of 2048 bytes | 12.62 | $2.52 |
Writing 1 row with added complexity
Adding complexity to a query, such as an index or join, increases the number of RUs consumed.
| Query | RUs per 1 query | Price per 1M queries |
|---|---|---|
| Write 1 row of 1024 bytes, with 0 indexes | 9.59 | $1.92 |
| Write 1 row of 1024 bytes, with 1 indexes | 18.69 | $3.74 |
| Write 1 row of 1024 bytes, with 2 indexes | 27.80 | $5.56 |
Scans
A small scan costs about 3 RUs, and the cost increases with the size of the scan.
| Query | RUs per 1 query | Price per 1M queries |
|---|---|---|
| Scan 1K rows of 64 bytes, return 1 | 3.26 | $0.65 |
| Scan 1K rows of 128 bytes, return 1 | 22.39 | $4.48 |
| Scan 1K rows of 2048 bytes, return 1 | 196.05 | $39.21 |
Other Cluster Activity
Activities such as establishing a SQL connection or executing a SELECT statement also consume RUs. In addition to queries you run, RUs can be consumed by background activity.
| Query | RUs per 1 query | Price per 1M queries |
|---|---|---|
| Establish SQL Connection | 4.36 | $0.87 |
| SELECT 1 | 0.14 | $0.03 |
Multi-region Serverless operations accrue an additional RU charge to account for the cost of cross-region network overhead. The price of networking depends on the cloud provider and the source and destination regions.
| Source region | |||||||
| us-central1 | europe-west1 | asia-southeast1 | southamerica-east1 | us-east1 | us-west2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Destination Region |
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| us-central1 | Source Region | 0.00 | 0.48 | 1.43 | 1.34 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| europe-west1 | Source Region | 0.48 | 0.00 | 1.43 | 1.34 | 0.48 | 0.48 |
| asia-southeast1 | Source Region | 1.43 | 1.43 | 0.00 | 1.43 | 1.43 | 1.43 |
| southamerica-east1 | Source Region | 1.34 | 1.34 | 1.43 | 0.00 | 1.34 | 1.34 |
| us-east1 | Source Region | 0.19 | 0.48 | 1.43 | 1.34 | 0.00 | 0.19 |
| us-west2 | Source Region | 0.19 | 0.48 | 1.43 | 1.34 | 0.19 | 0.00 |
Multi-region Serverless operations accrue an additional RU charge to account for the cost of cross-region network overhead. The price of networking depends on the cloud provider and the source and destination regions.
| Source region | |||||||
| us-west-2 | ap-southeast-1 | eu-west-1 | ap-south-1 | eu-central-1 | us-east-1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Destination Region |
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| us-west-2 | Source Region | 0.19 | 0.86 | 0.19 | 0.82 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| ap-southeast-1 | Source Region | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.82 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| eu-west-1 | Source Region | 0.19 | 0.86 | 0.19 | 0.82 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| ap-south-1 | Source Region | 0.19 | 0.86 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| eu-central-1 | Source Region | 0.19 | 0.86 | 0.19 | 0.82 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| us-east-1 | Source Region | 0.19 | 0.86 | 0.19 | 0.82 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
Great for starter projects and evaluating distributed SQL
- Available on GCP and AWS
- SRE team support and guaranteed uptime
- Elastic, auto-scale across multiple regions
- Row based data partitioning across geographies
- Automated, no downtime upgrades
- Daily and hourly backups
Built for mission-critical use cases in the cloud
- Available on AWS, Azure, and GCP
- SRE team support and guaranteed uptime
- Node-based, self-service scale across multiple regions
- Row based data partitioning across geographies
- Automated, no downtime upgrades
- Daily and hourly backups
Ideal for those with advanced configuration needs
- Available across public or private clouds, and across on-premise data centers (option for hybrid deployments)
- Enterprise support options available
- Node-based, manual scale across multiple regions and clouds
- Row based data partitioning across geographies
- Self-service, no downtime upgrades
- Self-service backups
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