SurrealDB Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026
Hobbyists can start for free, while the multi-model database offers custom enterprise pricing as you scale beyond the free tier.
SurrealDB plans and pricing
Start
Prototypes, testing & development
Scale
Production workloads needing HA & fault tolerance
Enterprise
On-prem or private cloud
SurrealDB pricing: the quick answer
SurrealDB Cloud starts free as of July 8, 2026. The Start plan has no monthly base fee and includes 1 GB of storage free forever, 0.25 vCPU and 512 MB of memory, and 1 GB of monthly egress at no cost; beyond that, compute bills at $0.021 per hour. The Scale plan for high-availability production is announced but not yet priced (waitlist only), and Enterprise for on-premises or private-cloud deployment is custom-quoted. So the only firm number today is Start: free until you exceed the base, then $0.021/hr. Cheap to prototype on, but production pricing is still forming.
- StartFree
- Scale$0.19/node/hr
- EnterpriseCustom
At $0.19/mo to start, SurrealDB sits 95% below the $3.50/mo median across 10 databases tools we track.
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SurrealDB Hidden Costs & Pitfalls
Start is free at the base and meters only what you use above it. The larger costs are things SurrealDB has not published yet, which is its own kind of budgeting problem.
SurrealDB pricing, read against its live plans and category
Positioning
SurrealDB Cloud's entry point is genuinely free. The Start plan has no base fee, includes 1 GB of storage free forever plus 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB, and 1 GB of monthly egress, and only charges $0.021/hr for compute above that. Scale, the production high-availability tier, is announced but not yet priced, and Enterprise is custom-quoted for self-hosting. For prototyping a multi-model workload that mixes document, graph, and relational data, the cost of entry is close to nothing.
Cost drivers
- 1Compute meters above the free base. Once you pass the free allotment, $0.021/hr for a continuously running instance is roughly $15 a month before storage, so a busy dev instance is not actually free.
- 2Production pricing is unpublished. Scale is waitlist-only with no rate, which means you cannot forecast production cost from the page.
- 3Enterprise is bring-your-own-infrastructure. Self-hosting adds your own hardware cost on top of the negotiated license.
Watch-outs
The pricing is fine; the maturity is the question. Users have raised real concerns about durability defaults and production readiness.
Strengths
- Multi-model in one engine: document, graph, and relational together
- Built-in auth removes the need for a separate auth layer on simple apps
- Real-time live queries over WebSocket
Editor’s take
Start is a low-risk way to prototype SurrealDB's multi-model approach, since it costs nothing until you push past the free allotment. But with Scale pricing still unpublished and durability questions open, this is not the place to move a production database that needs proven reliability today. For that, PostgreSQL remains the safer open-source standard.
Oleh KemFounder & Lead AnalystSurrealDB price history
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Sources & verification
| Source | What was checked | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Official Pricing Page | Source of verified tiers | July 8, 2026 |
| Official Website | Official vendor website | — |
| PeerSpot | PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews | — |
Every fact on this SurrealDB pricing page is tied to a named source and a verification date. Freshness-sensitive figures trace to the sources above; verify against the vendor before relying on them.
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