TiDB Cloud Billing

TiDB Cloud charges according to the resources that you consume.

Pricing

Pricing for TiDB Cloud Dedicated

See TiDB Cloud Dedicated Pricing Details.

Pricing for TiDB Cloud Starter (formerly Serverless)

See TiDB Cloud Starter Pricing Details.

Pricing for TiDB Cloud Essential

For TiDB Cloud Essential, you are charged based on the number of provisioned Request Capacity Units (RCUs), not on the actual usage by your application.

A Request Capacity Unit (RCU) is a unit of measure used to represent the provisioned compute capacity for your TiDB Cloud Essential cluster. One RCU provides a fixed amount of compute resources that can process a certain number of RUs per second. The number of RCUs you provision determines your cluster's baseline performance and throughput capacity.

See the detailed pricing for each available Alibaba Cloud region below.

Throttling

For TiDB Cloud Essential clusters, the throttling policy is based on the provisioned Request Capacity Units (RCUs). When the workload exceeds the maximum RCU capacity, the cluster will automatically throttle incoming requests to maintain stability. Existing connections will experience throttling, but new connection attempts will be accepted as long as they don't exceed the maximum RCU limit. This ensures predictable performance while protecting the cluster from overload.

Billing cycle

Each TiDB Cloud bill, corresponding to the previous month's usage, is finalized at the start of every new month. This finalized bill is charged to your default payment method, typically occurring between the 3rd and 9th day of the respective month. If your usage within the current month reaches or exceeds $500, an automatic charge will be initiated. Note that the billing cycle operates strictly in accordance with the UTC (+00:00) time zone.

Invoices

If you are in the Organization Owner or Organization Billing Manager role of your organization, you can manage the invoice information of TiDB Cloud. Otherwise, skip this section.

After you set up the payment method, TiDB Cloud will generate an invoice once your cost reaches a quota, which is $500 by default. If you want to raise the quota or receive one invoice per month, you can contact our sales.

After you contact our sales for receiving an invoice on a monthly basis, TiDB Cloud will generate the invoice for the previous month at the beginning of each month.

Invoice costs include TiDB cluster usage consumption, discounts, backup storage costs, support service cost, credit consumption, and data transmission costs in your organization.

For each monthly invoice:

• TiDB Cloud provides the invoice to you on the ninth of each month. From the first to the ninth day, you cannot view the last month's cost details, but can obtain the cluster usage information of this month via the billing console.
• The default method for paying invoices is credit card deduction. If you want to use other payment methods, please send a ticket request to let us know.
• You can view the summary and details of charges for the current month and the previous month.

To view the list of invoices, perform the following steps:

1. In the TiDB Cloud console, switch to your target organization using the combo box in the upper-left corner.

2. In the left navigation pane, click Billing.

3. On the Billing page, click the Invoices tab.

Billing details

If you are in the Organization Owner or Organization Billing Manager role of your organization, you can view and export the billing details of TiDB Cloud. Otherwise, skip this section.

After setting the payment method, TiDB Cloud will generate the invoice and billing details of the historical months, and generate the bill details of the current month at the beginning of each month. The billing details include your organization's TiDB cluster usage consumption, discounts, backup storage costs, data transmission costs, support service cost, credit consumption, and project splitting information.

To view the billing details, perform the following steps:

1. In the TiDB Cloud console, switch to your target organization using the combo box in the upper-left corner.

2. In the left navigation pane, click Billing.

On the Billing page, the Bills tab is displayed by default.

The Bills tab shows the billing summary by project and by service. You can also see the usage details and download the data in CSV format.

Cost explorer

If you are in the Organization Owner or Organization Billing Manager role of your organization, you can view and analyze the usage costs of TiDB Cloud. Otherwise, skip this section.

To analyze and customize your cost reports of your organization, perform the following steps:

1. In the TiDB Cloud console, switch to your target organization using the combo box in the upper-left corner.

2. In the left navigation pane, click Billing.

3. On the Billing page, click the Cost Explorer tab.

4. On the Cost Explorer tab, expand the Filter section in the upper-right corner to customize your report. You can set the time range, select a grouping option (such as by service, project, cluster, region, product type, and charge type), and apply filters by selecting specific services, projects, clusters, or regions. The cost explorer will display you with the following information:

   • Cost Graph: visualizes the cost trends over the selected time range. You can switch between Monthly, Daily, and Total views.
   • Cost Breakdown: displays a detailed breakdown of your costs according to the selected grouping option. For further analysis, you can download the data in CSV format.

Billing profile

Paid organizations can create a billing profile. Information in this profile will be used to determine the tax calculation.

To view or update the billing profile of your organization, perform the following steps:

1. In the TiDB Cloud console, switch to your target organization using the combo box in the upper-left corner.
2. In the left navigation pane, click Billing.
3. On the Billing page, click the Billing Profile tab.

There are four fields in the billing profile.

Company name (optional)

If this field is specified, this name will appear on invoices instead of your organization name.

Billing email (optional)

If this field is specified, invoices and other billing-related notifications will be sent to this email address.

Primary business address

This is the address of the company that purchases TiDB Cloud services. It is used to calculate any applicable taxes.

Business tax ID (optional)

If your business is registered for VAT/GST, fill in a valid VAT/GST ID. By providing this information, we will exempt you from charging VAT/GST if applicable. This is important for businesses operating in regions where VAT/GST registration allows for certain tax exemptions or refunds.

Credits

TiDB Cloud offers a certain number of credits for Proof of Concept (PoC) users. One credit is equivalent to one U.S. dollar. You can use credits to pay TiDB cluster fees before the credits become expired.

The detailed information of your credits is available on the Credits tab, including your total credits, available credits, current usage, and the status.

To view the credit information, perform the following steps:

1. In the TiDB Cloud console, switch to your target organization using the combo box in the upper-left corner.
2. In the left navigation pane, click Billing.
3. On the Billing page, click the Credits tab.

Discounts

If you are in the Organization Owner or Organization Billing Manager role of your organization, you can view the discount information of TiDB Cloud on the Discounts tab. Otherwise, skip this section.

The discount information includes all discounts that you have received, the status, the discount percentage, and the discount start and end date.

To view the discount information, perform the following steps:

1. In the TiDB Cloud console, switch to your target organization using the combo box in the upper-left corner.
2. In the left navigation pane, click Billing.
3. On the Billing page, click the Discounts tab.

Payment method

If you are in the Organization Owner or Organization Billing Manager role of your organization, you can manage the payment information of TiDB Cloud. Otherwise, skip this section.

The fee is deducted from a bound credit card according to your cluster usage. To add a valid credit card, you can use either of the following methods:

• When you are creating a TiDB Cloud Dedicated cluster:

  1. On the Create Cluster page, click Add Credit Card.
  2. In the Add a Card dialog, fill in the card information and billing address.
  3. Click Save Card.

• Anytime in the billing console:

  1. In the TiDB Cloud console, switch to your target organization using the combo box in the upper-left corner.

  2. In the left navigation pane, click Billing.

  3. On the Billing page, click the Payment Method tab, and then click Add a New Card.

  4. Fill in the credit card information and credit card address, and then click Save Card.

     If you do not specify a primary business address in Billing profile, the credit card address will be used as your primary business address for tax calculation. You can update your primary business address in Billing profile anytime.

You can bind multiple credit cards, and set one of them as the default credit card in the payment method of the billing console. After setting, subsequent billings will be automatically deducted from the default credit card.

To set the default credit card, perform the following steps:

1. In the TiDB Cloud console, switch to your target organization using the combo box in the upper-left corner.
2. In the left navigation pane, click Billing.
3. On the Billing page, click the Payment Method tab.
4. Select a credit card in the credit card list, and then click Yes when you are prompted to set it as the default credit card.

Contract

If you are in the Organization Owner or Organization Billing Manager role of your organization, you can manage your customized TiDB Cloud subscriptions in the TiDB Cloud console to meet compliance requirements. Otherwise, skip this section.

If you have agreed with our sales on a contract and received an email to review and accept the contract online, you can do the following:

1. In the TiDB Cloud console, switch to your target organization using the combo box in the upper-left corner.
2. In the left navigation pane, click Billing.
3. On the Billing page, click the Contract tab.
4. On the Contract tab, locate the contract you want to review, and then click ... in the row of the contract.

To learn more about contracts, feel free to contact our sales.

Billing from cloud provider marketplace

If you are in the Organization Owner or Organization Billing Manager role of your organization, you can link your TiDB Cloud account to the billing account of your cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud). Otherwise, skip this section.

If you are new to TiDB Cloud and do not have a TiDB Cloud account, you can sign up for a TiDB Cloud account through the marketplace of your cloud provider, and pay for the usage via the billing account of your cloud provider.

• To sign up through AWS Marketplace, search for TiDB Cloud in AWS Marketplace, subscribe to TiDB Cloud, and then follow the onscreen instructions to set up your TiDB Cloud account.
• To sign up through Azure Marketplace, search for TiDB Cloud in Azure Marketplace, subscribe to TiDB Cloud, and then follow the onscreen instructions to set up your TiDB Cloud account.
• To sign up through Google Cloud Marketplace, search for TiDB Cloud in Google Cloud Marketplace, subscribe to TiDB Cloud, and then follow the onscreen instructions to set up your TiDB Cloud account.
• To sign up through Alibaba Cloud Marketplace, search for TiDB Cloud in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace, subscribe to TiDB Cloud, and then follow the onscreen instructions to set up your TiDB Cloud account.

If you already have a TiDB Cloud account and you want to pay for the usage via your AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud billing account, you can link your TiDB Cloud account to your AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud billing account.