- Free allowance
- 25 GiB row storage plus 25 GiB columnar storage and 250 million Request Units per month, per organization across up to five instances
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate250 million Request Units per month on the org allowance; the FAQ prints 50 million per instance; 400 concurrent connections per Starter instance, rising to 5,000 with a spending limit; the public-endpoint idle timeout is 340 seconds
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 25 GiB row storage plus 25 GiB columnar storage and 250 million Request Units per month, per organization across up to five instances unit GiB; metered on request-count |
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| Price | USD 0.10 per million RUs beyond the allowance |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 250 million Request Units per month on the org allowance; the FAQ prints 50 million per instance source
- per-object-cap 25 GiB row plus 25 GiB columnar per organization; five instances source
- write-gated a credit card and a spend limit are required to create more than five Starter instances source
- request-rate (binding) 400 concurrent connections per Starter instance, rising to 5,000 with a spending limit; the public-endpoint idle timeout is 340 seconds source
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| Identity | email email signup for the free allowance; a card only to exceed five instances |
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| Egress | no transfer allowance and no per-GB egress rate is published on the pricing page; recorded as a gap. Traffic is billed through the request-unit and storage meters the page does publish |
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| Per-object cap | 25 GiB row storage per organization on the allowance; the FAQ states 5 GiB per instance |
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| Retention | an instance persists while the organization is active; no deletion clock published |
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| Interface | rest, cli the MySQL wire protocol with TLS; a Cloud API and the tiup CLI |
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| Tooling | any MySQL client, the tiup CLI, the Data Migration tool |
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| Composes with | the largest card-free relational allowance found in this class, which is why it is the first row a reader should try |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The two pages disagree by a factor of five and the direction matters. 25 GiB per org is the number the pricing page states today; 5 GiB per instance is what the FAQ states. Until one is measured, the conservative reading is 5 GiB per instance and 25 GiB per org across five. |
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| Evidence note | documented two first-party pages were read and they disagree. The record keeps the conservative per-instance reading and names the disagreement. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 25 GiB
- price USD 0.1 million RUs
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