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  "name": "CockroachDB",
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    "notes": "Basic plan usage beyond free tier: $0.20/million Request Units + $0.50/GiB storage. Standard starts at $0.18/hour for 2 vCPUs with on-demand storage. Advanced starts at $0.60/hour for 4 vCPUs. All plans include automatic 3x data replication. $400 in free credits available for trial. Legacy pricing applies to contracts predating December 1, 2024.",
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          "50M Request Units free/month",
          "10 GiB storage free/month",
          "Scales to zero when idle",
          "Up to 30K RU/sec (~60 vCPUs)",
          "Up to 3 TiB storage",
          "AWS and GCP support",
          "Multi-region available",
          "IP allowlist access control",
          "99.99% availability SLA",
          "Automatic 3x data replication",
          "Vector data and AI-ready tools"
        ],
        "description": "Serverless database with generous free tier and scale-to-zero"
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        "price": 0.18,
        "period": "per hour (2 vCPUs)",
        "features": [
          "Provisioned compute up to 200 vCPUs",
          "Instant scaling",
          "On-demand storage",
          "AWS and GCP support",
          "Private connectivity",
          "Datadog metrics and log export",
          "99.99% availability SLA",
          "Automatic 3x data replication",
          "Vector data and AI-ready tools",
          "No credit card required"
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        "description": "Provisioned compute with instant scaling for production workloads"
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        "name": "Advanced",
        "price": 0.6,
        "period": "per hour (4 vCPUs)",
        "features": [
          "Provisioned compute with unlimited scaling",
          "Up to 10 TiB storage per node",
          "AWS, GCP, and Azure (all regions)",
          "Up to 99.999% availability SLA (multi-region)",
          "Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK)",
          "PCI and HIPAA compliance controls",
          "Private connectivity",
          "Datadog integration",
          "Automatic 3x data replication",
          "Vector data and AI-ready tools"
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  "verdict": "CockroachDB offers one of the most compelling free tiers in the database market, 50M Request Units and 10 GiB storage per month with scale-to-zero is enough to run a real production app at low traffic for free. The serverless Basic plan is the standout: you pay nothing until you exceed generous limits, and the overage pricing ($0.20/M RUs + $0.50/GiB) is transparent. The core value proposition is PostgreSQL compatibility with built-in distributed SQL, automatic replication, and multi-region support, features that would require significant engineering effort to build on top of vanilla PostgreSQL. The tradeoff: CockroachDB is 15-30% more expensive than managed PostgreSQL (RDS, Cloud SQL) for equivalent compute, but you get survivability and horizontal scaling that those services cannot match without manual sharding.",
  "bestFor": "Startups building new applications that need PostgreSQL compatibility with built-in horizontal scaling and zero-downtime schema changes from day one | Companies requiring multi-region database deployments with automatic failover and strong consistency, CockroachDB eliminates the need for custom replication logic | Teams running serverless or event-driven architectures that benefit from scale-to-zero on the Basic plan, paying only for actual database usage | Regulated industries (fintech, healthcare) needing PCI/HIPAA compliance, CMEK, and 99.999% availability SLA without managing database infrastructure",
  "hiddenCosts": [
    "Request Unit consumption varies dramatically by query complexity. A simple key lookup costs ~1 RU, but a full table scan or complex JOIN can consume thousands of RUs. The 50M free RUs can evaporate quickly with unoptimized queries.",
    "Storage includes 3x replication overhead. If you store 10 GiB of logical data, CockroachDB replicates it to 3 nodes, but you are billed on logical storage (10 GiB), not physical (30 GiB). This is fair but worth understanding for capacity planning.",
    "Multi-region deployments multiply costs: each region runs its own set of nodes.",
    "Cross-region reads and writes consume more RUs due to consensus latency. A write that touches 3 regions costs ~3x the RUs of a local write.",
    "Egress/bandwidth charges are not included in CockroachDB pricing, the underlying cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure) charges separately for data transfer out of their network.",
    "The Standard plan (preview) pricing may change before GA. Early adopters should confirm pricing locks or migration paths."
  ],
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  "priceHistory": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-02",
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          "name": "Standard",
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  ],
  "partnerLink": false,
  "correction": "This price may be out of date. If the vendor's page differs, call report_issue with evidence_url and quote, or verify_price.",
  "provenance": {
    "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-10-21",
    "sourceUrl": "https://cockroachlabs.com/pricing",
    "confidence": "low",
    "underReview": true
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  "source": "Toolradar",
  "citation": "Toolradar, verified 2026-10-21, https://toolradar.com/tools/cockroachdb/pricing",
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