# CockroachDB pricing

Last confirmed on the vendor's page: 2026-10-21. Source: https://cockroachlabs.com/pricing. Confidence: low.

Cheapest paid plan: Standard, $0.18 a month.

| Plan | Per month | Unit | Billing | On the vendor's page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | Free |  |  |  |
| Standard | $0.18 | unknown | unknown |  |
| Advanced | $0.6 | unknown | unknown |  |

## Hidden costs and limits

- 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.

## Cite

Toolradar, verified 2026-10-21, https://toolradar.com/tools/cockroachdb/pricing

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