---
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
---

# Pick a plan. Start free, pay for what you use.

PLANS

Database

Agent Memory

Support

## Sandbox

Free, no card needed

**Plan**

Free

3 million tokens included, one-off

[Start in Studio](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/contexts)

Choose **Sandbox** if you:

- Want to try the full memory layer with no commitment

Key features:

- Knowledge graph with provenance
- Tri-temporal memory
- Hybrid retrieval (vector + BM25 + graph)
- MCP server, TypeScript SDK and CLI

## Lite

Billed monthly

**Plan**

$30/mo

1 million tokens a month included

[Start in Studio](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/contexts)

Choose **Lite** if you:

- Are shipping a first agent with modest usage

Key features:

- Knowledge graph with provenance
- Tri-temporal memory
- Hybrid retrieval (vector + BM25 + graph)
- MCP server, TypeScript SDK and CLI

## Standard

Billed monthly

**Plan**

$300/mo

10 million tokens a month included

[Start in Studio](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/contexts)

Choose **Standard** if you:

- Run production agents with real usage

Key features:

- Knowledge graph with provenance
- Tri-temporal memory
- Hybrid retrieval (vector + BM25 + graph)
- MCP server, TypeScript SDK and CLI

## Plus

Billed monthly

**Plan**

$1,100/mo

40 million tokens a month included

[Start in Studio](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/contexts)

Choose **Plus** if you:

- Scale agent fleets or heavier ingestion

Key features:

- Knowledge graph with provenance
- Tri-temporal memory
- Hybrid retrieval (vector + BM25 + graph)
- MCP server, TypeScript SDK and CLI

## Enterprise

Annual agreement

**Plan**

Custom

Priced for your deployment

[Talk to sales](https://surrealdb.com/contact/sales)

Choose **Enterprise** if you:

- Need your own model, a single tenant or custom SLAs

Key features:

- Bring your own model (BYOM)
- Single-tenant on SurrealDB Cloud
- Self-hosted and air-gapped deployment
- Custom SLAs and enterprise support

Features

Sandbox

Lite

Standard

Plus

Enterprise

Plans and usage

Monthly price

Free

$30

$300

$1,100

Custom

Included tokens per month

3 million (one-off)

1 million

10 million

40 million

Agreed with sales

Usage beyond included tokens

Not available

Overage rates apply

Overage rates apply

Overage rates apply

Agreed with sales

Memory capabilities

Knowledge graph with entity extraction

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Conversational memory

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Tri-temporal versioning and supersession

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Provenance on every fact

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Hybrid retrieval (vector + BM25 + graph)

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Retrieval, decision, and response traces

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Multi-modal document pipeline

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

MCP server, TypeScript SDK, and CLI

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Isolation and security

Context isolation (own namespace and database)

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Scoped permissions and API-key attenuation

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Prompt-injection scanning

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Forget verb, and purge for GDPR erasure

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Single-tenant deployment

Not included

Not included

Not included

Not included

Included

Bring your own model (BYOM)

Not included

Not included

Not included

Not included

Included

Self-hosted and air-gapped deployment

Not included

Not included

Not included

Not included

Included

Support

Community support

Included

Included

Included

Included

Included

Enterprise support with SLAs

Not included

Not included

Not included

Not included

Included

CLOUD COMMITMENT

## Commit to SurrealDB, pay less for it. Discounted rates, predictable invoices and one pool of credits.

- Discounted rates on committed spend

  Lower unit prices in exchange for an annual commitment, sized to your forecast.
- One pool of credits

  Draw down across Earth, Cloud and Agent Memory as your workloads move.
- A team that knows your workload

  Help with sizing, architecture reviews and optional advanced support.

We usually reply within one working day.

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?

How is SurrealDB Earth billed?

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

Dedicated clusters by region, or serverless on SurrealDB Earth.

![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.

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

![ISO 27001](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/iso.BzQy4FFy.svg)

![AICPA SOC 2 Type 2](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/aicpa-soc.CE_YjqhK.svg)

![Cyber Essentials](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/cyber-essentials.CtbmbYfL.svg)

![GDPR](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/gdpr.IadR7loS.svg)

![Cyber Essentials Plus](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/cyber-essentials-plus.Cl5P05xe.svg)

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