TiDB Cloud Filesystem Pricing Details
Pay as you go for reads, writes, storage and egress, with a monthly free-tier allowance. No tiered plans.
Start Free
Every organization gets a monthly free-tier allowance for Filesystem, shared across all its file systems and regions.
What Can I Use Without a Card?
You can start without a credit card, with one file system per region. Each filesystem can hold up to 2,000 files and 2 GB in total; each file can be up to 500 MB.
The free-tier allowance covers usage charges; it does not increase these limits.
The free-tier allowance reduces your charges; it is not a maximum monthly bill, and there is no configurable spending limit. See Billing and Limits before you start.
Read the quickstartUnderstand Your Usage
Your cost depends on requests, the amount of data you store and data transferred out to the internet. Here is how to read those units before applying the rates.
Read and Write Requests
A read retrieves file data; a write stores it. The prices use request counts, not the number of files you keep and not the number of agent runs. Listing a directory or checking a file’s details (list, stat) also counts as a read. Managing your organization and workspaces is not charged.
A price per 1,000 requests means you divide the request count by 1,000, then multiply by the rate.
How many requests a given workload produces is not something you can read off your file count. Take it from your account’s usage reporting, or contact us to work through an estimate.
Storage: GB Per Month
Storage measures how much data you keep and for how long. GB-mo means gigabytes per month; it is a storage unit, not a request count.
Multiply the GB you keep for the month by the rate. Billing is monthly and prorated by the hour.
Internet Egress
Egress means data transferred out to the public internet, measured in GB. It is a separate billing item from storage and requests.
Multiply the GB transferred out by the rate. Use the amount transferred out, not the total amount you have stored.
Rates and How Billing Works
Use the rate for each category of your usage, then add those charges together. All five billing items are listed below, for every region where Filesystem is priced.
Read and write operations cost the same in every region — $0.04 and $0.50 per 1,000 requests. Storage and egress differ by region. Storage is placed automatically by file size. You don’t choose between the two storage types.
| Meter | aws-us-east-1 | aws-us-west-2 | aws-ap-southeast-1 | alicloud-ap-southeast-1 | gcp-us-east1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read operations, per 1,000 requests | $0.04 | $0.04 | $0.04 | $0.04 | $0.04 |
| Write operations, per 1,000 requests | $0.50 | $0.50 | $0.50 | $0.50 | $0.50 |
| Database storage, per GB-moSmaller files and file metadata, stored in TiDB for fast access | $0.30 | $0.30 | $0.36 | $0.32 | $0.30 |
| Object storage, per GB-moLarger files, stored in cloud object storage | $0.025 | $0.025 | $0.027 | $0.019 | $0.022 |
| Internet egress, per GBData transfer out to the internet | $0.09 | $0.09 | $0.12 | $0.08 | $0.12 |
All prices in USD. Billed monthly, prorated by the hour. Regions are added gradually — contact us for a quote in a region that is not listed.
Billing and Limits
Without a Credit Card on File
- One file system per region
- 2,000 files per file system
- 2 GB of storage per file system
- 500 MB maximum for a single file
At a limit, your existing files stay readable and the file system stops accepting new writes. The TiDB Cloud console shows a warning. With a card on file, usage beyond the free-tier allowance is billed as overage on your monthly invoice.
Accounts with a card on file are exempt from these limits.
Your Free-Tier Allowance and Spending
TiDB Cloud Filesystem does not support a configurable spending limit. The monthly free-tier allowance reduces your charges; it is not a maximum monthly bill.
Common Pricing Questions
No. The monthly free-tier allowance is shared by all file system usage in your organization, across regions. Creating another file system does not add another allowance.
No. The no-card storage cap is a separate limit of 2 GB per file system and does not change with the allowance. Accounts with a card on file are exempt from the listed no-card limits.
TiDB Cloud Filesystem does not support a configurable spending limit. The monthly free-tier allowance reduces your charges; it is not a maximum monthly bill.
It stops accepting writes, and existing files stay readable. The TiDB Cloud console shows a warning, and write requests are rejected once the limit is in force. With a card on file, usage beyond the free-tier allowance is billed as overage on your monthly invoice rather than blocked.
Start with Your Monthly Free-Tier Allowance
Create a file system and try it with your organization's monthly free-tier allowance.