---
title: "Pricing & plans | SurrealDB"
description: "Compare SurrealDB pricing plans for Cloud, Self-Hosted, and Enterprise. Find the right solution for your project, from free tiers to dedicated support."
url: https://surrealdb.com/pricing
---

# Pricing

Find the solution that works for you

The unified data layer for AI. The database where storage, context, and memory are one transaction.

[Start free with SurrealDB](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/instances/deploy) [Talk to sales](https://surrealdb.com/contact/pricing) [Estimate your monthly cost](https://surrealdb.com/pricing#estimate)

1 free instance

Only pay for what you use

Scale horizontally to petabytes

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4. ![Nvidia](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/nvidia.DaIEuMil.svg)
5. ![Apple](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/apple.D5pq4flY.svg)
6. ![SpaceX](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/spacex.CQJEk-IL.svg)
7. ![Samsung](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/samsung.CH-vQgnb.svg)
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9. ![Tencent](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/tencent.paQmLxyy.svg)
10. ![Alibaba](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/alibaba.B16idgfM.svg)
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12. ![Later](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/later.Ds736jFO.svg)
13. ![Verizon](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/verizon.BI7CajdX.svg)
14. ![Liberty Mutual](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/liberty-mutual.B7qOU1pd.svg)
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Database

Agent Memory

Support

SurrealDB Cloud

## Start

Best for prototypes, testing, and development. Only pay for what you use.

$0

/hr

1 free instance, then starts at $0.021/hr

1GB storage free, forever

Scale vertically to terabytes

Automatic burst scaling

Daily automated backups

Cloud RBAC and ABAC

Database branching and forking *

Multi-model queries

View instance pricing

[Start for free](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/instances/deploy)

## Scale

For production workloads requiring fault-tolerance and high availability.

$0.192

/node/hr

Higher tiers available

Highly-available and fault-tolerant

Multiple availability-zone deployment

Scale horizontally to Petabytes

Multi-region disaster recovery

Object-storage backed data *

Database branching and forking *

View instance pricing

[Get started](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/instances/deploy)

Self-hosted deployments

## Enterprise

Self-hosted, fault-tolerant, and scalable with our Gen-3 distributed storage engine.

Custom

Contact us for pricing

Clustered fault-tolerant deployments

Horizontal scalability with distributed storage

Enterprise support

Audit logging and compliance

FIPS-compliant cryptography

Advanced metrics and observability

Database branching and forking

Object file storage backends

Distributed live queries

[Contact sales](https://surrealdb.com/contact/pricing)

* Coming soon

### Estimate your monthly cost

Start

Scale

Configuration

Select a suitable configuration for your instance

Free

free

$0.000/hr

0.25 vCPU · 1 GB memory

Storage

1 GB (free)

1 GB

512 GB

1 TB

1.5 TB

2 TB

Network traffic

Estimate outbound internet data transfer each month

Internet egress

1 GB/mo (free)

1 GB

100 GB

200 GB

300 GB

400 GB

500 GB

Compute (1x $0.000/hr)

$0.000 /hr

Storage

Free

Network

Free

Hourly cost

Free

Estimated monthly

### $0.00 /mo

Share this estimate

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### [Add-on: Agent Memory](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory#pricing)

Give your agents durable, provable memory, built on SurrealDB. Self-serve plans from $29 a month, each with a one-week free trial.

See Agent Memory pricing

### Cloud

Start

Scale

Enterprise

Cloud management dashboard

Included

Included

Included

Team collaboration

i

Included

Included

Included

Vertically scalable compute

Included

Included

Included

Horizontally scalable compute

Not included

Included

Included

Horizontally scalable storage

Not included

Included

Included

Fault tolerance & high-availability

Not included

Included

Included

Workload isolation with centralised data

Not included

Included

Included

Automated daily managed backups

Included

Included

Not included

Automated custom managed backups

Not included

Included

Not included

Instance metrics

i

Included

Included

Included

Query logs and traces

i

Included

Included

Included

### Database

Start

Scale

Enterprise

ACID transactions

Included

Included

Included

Separate storage and compute

Included

Included

Included

Relational data model

Included

Included

Included

Document data model

Included

Included

Included

Graph data model

Included

Included

Included

Time-series data storage

Included

Included

Included

Geospatial data storage

Included

Included

Included

Schemaful and schemaless

i

Included

Included

Included

Full-text search indexing

Included

Included

Included

Vector search indexing

Included

Included

Included

Reactive materialised views

Included

Included

Included

Live query notifications

Included

Included

Included

Distributed multi-node live queries

Not included

Included

Included

Store files on local disk

Included

Included

Included

Store files on object storage

i

Coming soon

Coming soon

Included

SurrealQL import

Included

Included

Included

SurrealQL export

Included

Included

Included

SurrealQL querying

Included

Included

Included

GraphQL querying

i

Included

Included

Included

### Security

Start

Scale

Enterprise

Custom access methods

Included

Included

Included

Role-based access control

Included

Included

Included

Table level access permissions

Included

Included

Included

Document level access permissions

Included

Included

Included

Field level access permissions

Included

Included

Included

Hierarchical user access levels

Included

Included

Included

Cryptographic functions

Included

Included

Included

Bring-your-own storage buckets

Included

Included

Included

Bring-your-own encryption keys

Not included

Optional add-on

Included

Social sign-on authentication

Included

Included

Included

Enterprise single sign-on authentication

Optional add-on

Optional add-on

Included

Security audit logs and compliance

i

Optional add-on

Optional add-on

Included

Cloud access and audit logs

i

Optional add-on

Optional add-on

Included

Streaming logs and traces

i

Optional add-on

Optional add-on

Included

Private networking connectivity

i

Optional add-on

Optional add-on

Included

Priority security patching

i

Not included

Not included

Included

FIPS-compliant cryptographic modules

i

Not included

Not included

Included

Trusted function execution environment

i

Not included

Not included

Included

Tenant compute isolation

Included

Included

Included

Tenant storage isolation

Not included

Included

Included

Full tenant isolation

Not included

Included

Included

Encryption in transit

Included

Included

Included

Encryption at rest

Included

Included

Included

SOC 2 Type 2 compliance

Included

Included

Included

ISO 27001 compliance

Included

Included

Included

Cyber Essentials Plus

Included

Included

Included

HIPAA compliance

Optional add-on

Optional add-on

Included

### Support

Start

Scale

Enterprise

Community support

Included

Included

Included

Community forum

Included

Included

Included

Basic support

i

Included

Included

Included

Commercial support

i

Not included

Not included

Included

Advanced support

i

Optional add-on

Optional add-on

Included

Technical account manager

Optional add-on

Optional add-on

Included

WHY SURREAL

## Why teams choose SurrealDB

Managed infrastructure, ACID compliance, true horizontal scale, workload isolation, team-grade access controls, and enterprise support - everything you need to take SurrealDB to production.

### [Fully managed](https://surrealdb.com/cloud)

SurrealDB Cloud runs the infrastructure, monitoring, backups and capacity planning for you, so your team can focus on building great products with the full power and flexibility of SurrealDB.

![Fully managed illustration](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/fully-managed.BOCAbkZr.avif)

Learn more

### [ACID compliant](https://surrealdb.com/cloud)

As a fully ACID compliant database, SurrealDB allows you to run transactions across multiple rows, and across multiple different tables.

![ACID compliant illustration](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/acid-compliant.BUL3bLPu.avif)

Learn more

### Scalability

Grow from prototype to enterprise-scale. Our scalable architecture allows your database to evolve as your application grows, ensuring you are always ahead of demand.

![Scalability illustration](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/scalability.CIZKvdCZ.avif)

### Workload isolation with centralised data

Allows departments or projects to compartmentalise workflows while sharing a consistent data repository, eliminating costly ETL jobs and redundant data marts.

![Workload isolation illustration](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/workload-isolation.CjYCpWyQ.avif)

### Teams and organisations

Whether you're a team of two or two thousand, SurrealDB Cloud scales with you. Invite collaborators, manage access, and centralise compliance.

![Teams and organisations illustration](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/teams-and-orgs.CBFu5B4y.avif)

### Support

Join and learn from our vibrant community of innovators and pioneers who are shaping the future of technology.

![Support illustration](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/support.D96eMPM5.avif)

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

## Pricing FAQ

How secure is SurrealDB Cloud?

Is SurrealDB Cloud compliant?

How resilient are SurrealDB and SurrealDB Cloud?

What cloud provider is SurrealDB Cloud built on?

How does pricing work?

What payment methods are available?

What is included in Enterprise self-hosted pricing?

What support plans are available and how do they differ?

GET STARTED

## Start building with the unified data layer

The unified data layer for AI. Structured context, persistent memory, infinite-scale storage. One stack.

![Samsung](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/4c58b81e7b3c9466.C_Hv0eml.svg)![NVIDIA](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/nvidia.DaIEuMil.svg)![Apple](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/f7dc2519e0d212bc.Cn8MYAK7.svg)![Verizon](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/18b99996c689000f.B5PQ-nI9.svg)![Tencent](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/401d8346058682c8.DqM87mst.svg)

SOC 2 Type 2

GDPR

Cyber Essentials Plus

ISO 27001

[Start free with SurrealDB](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/instances/deploy) [Contact us](https://surrealdb.com/contact/pricing)

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