CockroachDB Cloud
cockroachlabs.com · 3 records in Databases and KV, Storage · JSON
Records 3
- caveatCockroachDB Cloud Basic
Databases and KVfree tieridentity emailcardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-23
- fails: quotaCockroachDB Cloud (Basic tier)
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaCockroachDB Cloud (Basic) / Continuum
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
CockroachDB Cloud Basic
Databases and KV- Free allowance
- 'When you sign up for CockroachDB Cloud, your new organization's account starts with $400 in free credits, allowing you to try the product at no cost.' The page states no trial length.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampeddata is deleted after a period
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | 'When you sign up for CockroachDB Cloud, your new organization's account starts with $400 in free credits, allowing you to try the product at no cost.' The page states no trial length. unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the trial length is not published; the record's earlier 30 days is not supported by the page |
| Binding | retention-clamped the request-unit counter throttles and the storage cap refuses writes, but both are recoverable. The 30-day deletion after the trial credits end is not: it removes every cluster in the organization and the page states they cannot be restored. |
| Identity | email GitHub, Google, Microsoft or an email address and password; a name, company and email verification on the email path; a payment method only at the end of the trial |
| Egress | data transfer leaving the cluster is billed separately and the free-trial and Basic plan pages publish no included transfer allowance and no per-GB rate; recorded as a gap after checking both |
| Per-object cap | 10 GiB storage per organization on the recurring allowance; no per-object cap is published |
| Retention | no trial length is stated; billing starts on the day the last credit is used, or on credit expiry, and a 30-day grace period follows if no payment method is added |
| Interface | rest, cli the Postgres wire protocol with CockroachDB extensions; a Cloud API and the cockroach CLI |
| Tooling | psql-compatible clients, the cockroach CLI, the Cloud API |
| Composes with | the only free tier above 10 GiB of card-free-capable relational storage, if the card question resolves in your favour |
| Reliability | no inactivity power-off; Request Unit consumption scales to zero when the cluster is idle. The trial path ends in an unrecoverable deletion 30 days after the credits run out without a payment method |
| Notes | The pricing page carries two different Standard rates and prices the product as 'Cockroach Continuum' from 2026-09-15. RAM is never stated. No arbitrary process can be hosted; the credit buys a managed database. |
| Evidence note | documented two first-party pages were read: the free-trial page for the credits, the grace period and the deletion sentence, and the Basic plan page for scale-to-zero and the storage-limit behaviour. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/free-trial | quoted: 'your new organization's account starts with $400 in free credits' and 'If the trial ends and a payment method has not been provided, a 30 day grace period begins.' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/ | quoted: Standard '$0.092 per vCPU-hour', footer 'Standard from $0.057 / vCPU-hr' (the page contradicts itself), Mission Critical $0.162 |
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| hourly usd | {"standard_vcpu": 0.092,"mission_critical_vcpu": 0.162,"standard_vcpu_footer": 0.057} |
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| rate conflict | the Standard card reads USD 0.092 per vCPU-hour and the footer table reads 'Standard from $0.057 / vCPU-hr' on the same page |
Corrections
- 2026-10-23 Corrected on 2026-10-23: compute/databricks, compute/digitalocean, compute/linode and 6 more records
- 2026-10-22 CockroachDB Basic's trial was recorded as ending in "interruption", and it ends in an unrecoverable deletion
- Free allowance
- $15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org, equivalent to 50 million Request Units AND 10 GiB of storage per month
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | $15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org, equivalent to 50 million Request Units AND 10 GiB of storage per month unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Identity | card (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Not separately charged (storage + RUs are the meters); but the free allowance is denominated in dollars, so ANY overage converts to a bill. Effectively metered. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | 10 GiB storage/month free allowance; 50M RUs/month; 30K RU/sec ceiling on Basic; the legacy 'Serverless free tier' (5 GiB + 50M RUs, no card) has been replaced — current signup is $400 credit for 30 days then the $15/month Basic allowance (30 days) |
| Interface | rest, cli rest |
| Tooling | psql / any Postgres wire client (CockroachDB is PG-wire compatible), cockroach CLI, Cloud API |
| Composes with | The $15 credit is per ORG, and the 10 GiB is a monthly allowance, not a permanent bucket. New orgs get a separate $400 30-day trial. There is no documented per-account cap on the number of orgs, so 50 orgs x 10 GiB = 500 GB in principle — but each org requires a distinct signup and a payment method to keep the $15 recurring benefit, which is a much higher friction per byte than Telegram or a drive. |
| Reliability | Very reliable, but the free tier is a dollar credit rather than a hard quota, so a runaway query or a large storage footprint silently converts to charges. Storage is billed on logical GiB with 3 replicas included. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | docs.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/plan-your-cluster | 'Each pay-as-you-go CockroachDB Cloud organization ... is given $15 of resource consumption (equivalent to 50 million Request Units and 10 GiB of storage) for free each month.' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.cockroachlabs.com/free-tier/1a/ | '$400 in free credits to start—no credit card required'; 'New users get $400 in free credits to use within the first 30 days.' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/quickstart | '$400 in free-trial free trial credits ... you will need to [add a payment method] by the end of the trial' |
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| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "$15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org, equivalent to 50 million Request Units AND 10 GiB of storage per month","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- Free allowance
- $15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org = 50M Request Units + 10 GiB storage/month
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | $15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org = 50M Request Units + 10 GiB storage/month unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Identity | card (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | No separate egress charge on Basic — billing is storage GiB + Request Units. So egress is effectively free within the RU budget, and reads are the meter. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, cli rest |
| Tooling | Postgres wire protocol (psql, any driver), cockroach CLI, Cloud API; no object storage — bytes must live in tables/BYTEA |
| Composes with | The $15 credit is per ORGANIZATION and explicitly spendable 'across all CockroachDB Basic clusters in an organization'. It is a monthly consumable, not a standing quota — 10 GiB is the storage-equivalent, and multi-region replication multiplies storage 3-5x against the same credit. New orgs get a $400 trial credit on top. |
| Reliability | Cluster is DISABLED when RU budget is exhausted — a hard stop mid-month, not throttling. Replication factor 3 eats the storage budget 3x. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachcloud/plan-your-cluster- | '$15 of resource consumption (equivalent to 50 million Request Units and 10 GiB of storage) for free each month ... can be spent across all CockroachDB Basic clusters in an organization' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/ | 'This pricing applies to Cockroach Continuum for anyone getting started or adding new database deployments on or after September 15, 2026' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "$15/month of free resource consumption per pay-as-you-go org = 50M Request Units + 10 GiB storage/month","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read