--- title: "Pricing and 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 --- PLANS # Pick a plan. Start free, pay for what you use. Database Agent Memory Support Cloud ## Start Pay as you go, billed by the hour **First instance** $0/hr 1GB of storage free, forever **Further instances** from $0.021/hr Compute and storage priced separately [Start for free](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/instances/deploy) [See full pricing](https://surrealdb.com/pricing?pricing-plan=scale#full-pricing) Choose **Start** if you: - Are prototyping or building a side project - Want one instance free and to pay only for what you add - Scale vertically, without running a cluster Key features: - 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 * Coming soon Cloud ## Scale Pay as you go, billed by the node hour **Node** $0.192/hr Three nodes minimum. Higher tiers available [Get started](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/instances/deploy) [See full pricing](https://surrealdb.com/pricing?pricing-plan=scale#full-pricing) Choose **Scale** if you: - Run production workloads that need high availability - Deploy across availability zones or regions - Scale horizontally towards petabytes Key features: - 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 * * Coming soon Self-hosted ## Enterprise Priced for your deployment **Deployment** Custom Self-hosted, on your infrastructure [Contact sales](https://surrealdb.com/contact/pricing) Choose **Enterprise** if you: - Self-host, or need a dedicated single-tenant deployment - Have audit, compliance or FIPS requirements - Want enterprise support and custom SLAs Key features: - 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 ## Estimate your monthly cost Start Scale Configuration Select a suitable configuration for your instance Free free · 0.25 vCPU · 1 GB memory $0.000 /hr Burstable small · 0.5 vCPU · 1 GB memory $0.021 /hr Burstable medium · 1 vCPU · 2 GB memory $0.044 /hr Burstable large · 2 vCPU · 4 GB memory $0.093 /hr General purpose medium · 1 vCPU · 4 GB memory $0.135 /hr General purpose large · 2 vCPU · 8 GB memory $0.301 /hr General purpose xlarge · 4 vCPU · 16 GB memory $0.602 /hr General purpose 2xlarge · 8 vCPU · 32 GB memory $1.204 /hr General purpose 4xlarge · 16 vCPU · 64 GB memory $2.409 /hr 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 Link to this calculator Copy link Compute (1x $0.000/hr) $0.000 /hr Storage Free Network Free Hourly cost Free Estimated monthly $0.00 /mo Annual plans are available at a discounted rate. [Talk to our team](https://surrealdb.com/contact/sales) Share this estimate Copy link ## Full pricing This lists every SurrealDB Cloud rate for the Scale plan. Compute is billed by the node hour, and the monthly figures assume 730 hours. Start Scale | Type | Node | vCPU | Memory | Per node hour | Per node month | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Scale | Medium | 1 | 4 GB | $0.192 | $140.16 | | Large | 2 | 8 GB | $0.384 | $280.32 | | | X Large | 4 | 16 GB | $0.768 | $560.64 | | | 2X Large | 8 | 32 GB | $1.536 | $1,121.28 | | | 4X Large | 16 | 64 GB | $3.071 | $2,241.83 | | | Storage, per node | 128 GB to 30 TB | $0.20 per GB | | | | | Backup | Backup storage | $0.20 per GB | | | | | Data transfer | Internet egress | $0.09 per GB | | | | | Inter-node ingress (cross-AZ) | $0.01 per GB | | | | | | Inter-node egress (cross-AZ) | $0.01 per GB | | | | | Features Start Scale Enterprise Cloud Cloud management dashboard Included Included Included Team collaborationi 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 metricsi Included Included Included Query logs and tracesi Included Included Included Database 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 schemalessi 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 storagei Coming soon Coming soon Included SurrealQL import Included Included Included SurrealQL export Included Included Included SurrealQL querying Included Included Included GraphQL queryingi Included Included Included Security 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 compliancei Optional add-on Optional add-on Included Cloud access and audit logsi Optional add-on Optional add-on Included Streaming logs and tracesi Optional add-on Optional add-on Included Private networking connectivityi Optional add-on Optional add-on Included Priority security patchingi Not included Not included Included FIPS-compliant cryptographic modulesi Not included Not included Included Trusted function execution environmenti Not included Not included Coming soon 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 Community support Included Included Included Community forum Included Included Included Basic supporti Included Included Included Commercial supporti Not included Not included Included Advanced supporti 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 transactions and support to production. ### [Fully managed](https://surrealdb.com/cloud) SurrealDB Cloud runs the infrastructure, monitoring, backups and capacity. ### [ACID compliant](https://surrealdb.com/cloud) Transactions across many rows and many tables, in one commit. ### Teams and organisations Invite collaborators, manage access and centralise compliance. ### Support A community of builders, and support plans with SLAs behind it. ## Your questions, answered Do you offer annual plans? Yes. Annual plans are available at a discounted rate for SurrealDB Cloud and support. [Talk to our team](https://surrealdb.com/contact/sales) and we will price one for your deployment. How secure is SurrealDB Cloud? Is SurrealDB Cloud compliant? How resilient are SurrealDB and SurrealDB Cloud? Which cloud providers does SurrealDB Cloud run 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? THE PLATFORM ## Everything an application and its agents know. Five surfaces, one engine. Database Document, graph, vector, time-series and relational in one engine. ![Five data models as dotted tiles: documents, graph, vector, time-series and relational](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-database.DUdumYDz.avif) Read more [Database](https://surrealdb.com/surrealdb) Agent Memory What an agent learns, with its source and its time, in the same engine. ![A timeline of remembered facts, each with its source](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-agent-memory.Cvv8D5Wl.avif) Read more [Agent Memory](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory) Cloud Managed clusters in the regions you choose, scaled on demand. ![Clusters in three regions on a world map, each running or scaling](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-cloud.--QZnaVi.avif) Read more [Cloud](https://surrealdb.com/cloud) Studio Query, explore and design the schema from the browser. ![A SurrealQL query in Studio and the schema graph under it](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-studio.7ykBFNLq.avif) Read more [Studio](https://surrealdb.com/studio) MCP Every model that speaks MCP reaches the database and the memory directly. ![Three models connected through MCP to the database and Agent Memory](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-mcp.D_oH0_wm.avif) Read more [MCP](https://surrealdb.com/mcp) IN PRODUCTION ## Trusted at scale. Samsung, Nvidia, Verizon, Tencent, and Walmart run on SurrealDB. 14,000+ Developers building on SurrealDB Cloud 4M+ Developers building on SurrealDB worldwide FROM THE TEAMS > SurrealDB gives us a foundation where we can unify semantic search, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven decision making without stitching together multiple systems. Collapsing responsibility into SurrealDB has become our default engineering posture. *Justin Foley* VP of Engineering, Later GET STARTED ## Start building on SurrealDB. Context, memory and storage in one engine, from free to enterprise. 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