Timescale Pricing

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Performance

30-day free trial
Best for cost-focused, smaller projects. No credit card required to start.

Pay as you go, hourly

Compute starts at

$30 / month

Storage priced at

$0.177 / GB-month

Get started with:

  • 4 database services
  • Up to 8 CPU and 32 GB memory per service
  • Up to 16 TB disk storage per service
  • High-availability replica
  • Point-in-time-recovery to 3 days
  • Performance Insights
  • Basic support (9-5 ET)

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Scale

Most popular

Best for developers handling critical applications. *

Pay as you go, hourly

Compute starts at

$36 / month

Storage priced at

$0.212 / GB-month

Everything in Performance, plus:

  • Unlimited database services
  • Up to 32 CPU and 128 GB memory
  • Tiered storage
  • I/O Boost
  • Read replicas
  • Point-in-time-recovery up to 14 days
  • Advanced monitoring

And more...

* Signups start with a free trial to Performance, but you can upgrade to Scale whenever you're ready.

Enterprise

Best for enterprises with mission-critical applications. Learn more
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Everything in Scale, plus:

  • Production support included (24x7)
  • Federated authentication
  • Advanced compliance and security
  • Integration and migration services
  • Enterprise SLAs

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Our view on pricing

Compute

Pay only for the compute resources you run, metered per hour. Scale compute up and down whenever you want, and scale out via replicas as your application grows. We even provide services to help you lower your compute needs while improving query performance.

Storage

Pay only for the storage you consume, metered as GB-hours. You have high-performance storage for more-accessed data, and tiered storage for low-cost, bottomless storage. And we can help you compress your data up to 10x (or more) so you pay even less.

It’s that Simple

You don't pay for backups or networking costs, such as data ingest or egress. There are no per-query fees, nor additional costs to read or write data. It's all completely transparent, easily understood, and up to you.

Features

Number of database services

Up to 4

CPU per service

Up to 8 CPU

Memory per service

Up to 32 GB

Storage per service

Up to 16 TB

Tiered storage on S3

Independently scale compute and storage

Data services and workloads

Relational

Time-series

Vector search

AI workflows

Cloud SQL editor

3 seats included

Charts

Dashboards

2

Storage performance

IOPS (autoscales)

3,000 - 5,000

Bandwidth (autoscales)

125 - 250 Mbps

I/O Boost

Availability and monitoring

High-availability replicas
(Automated multi-AZ failover)

1 HA replica

Read replicas

Point-in-time recovery and forking

3 days

Performance insights

Metrics and log exporters

Security and compliance

End-to-end encryption

Private Networking (VPC)

1 multi-attach
VPC

Multi-factor authentication

Federated authentication (SAML)

SOC 2 Type 2 report

HIPAA compliance

Penetration testing report

Security questionnaire and review

Pay by invoice

Available at
minimum spend

Uptime SLAs

Standard

Support and technical services

Community support

Basic support (email)

Production support (24x7)

Add-on

Named account manager

JOIN services (Jumpstart Onboarding and Integration)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Timescale Cloud charges based on consumption.  Compute is metered on an hourly basis, and you can scale it up and down at any time.  Storage is metered based on your average GB consumption per hour; it grows and shrinks automatically with your data.

So if at the end of the month, your database service has been running for 500 hours, of which 375 are with 2 CPU and 125 with 4 CPU, then your compute cost is (375 x hourly price for 2 CPU) + (125 * hourly price for 4 CPU).  Your monthly price for storage is computed similarly.  Certain add-on features may incur additional charges to increase functionality – such as HA replicas, IO Boost, Tiered Storage and Production Support.
You’ll be billed at the end of each month in arrears, based on your actual usage that month.  Your monthly invoice will include an itemized cost accounting for each database service (compute and storage) and any additional charges (e.g., VPC peering, tiered storage, production support).
You can easily upgrade or downgrade or downgrade between the Performance and Scale plans whenever you want.  If you switch your plan mid-month, your prices are pro-rated to when you switch.  And your services won’t be interrupted if you switch, so you can keep working without any hassle. 
Yes! We offer new users a free, 30-day trial period (no credit card required) of our Performance plan.  During your trial, you can contact us request more information about, and access to, our Scale plan to determine how it fits your needs. And once you become a paying user, we can make certain features of higher plans available to you for testing without upgrading your entire plan.
Your account console shows your resource usage and dashboards with performance insights, which allows you to closely monitor your services’ performance and any need to scale your services or upgrade your plan.

Your console also shows your month-to-date accrued charges, as well as a forecast of your expected month-end bill.  Your previous invoices are also available as PDFs for download in the console.
Compute requirements are highly dependent on the workload. TimescaleDB is very efficient and generally needs less compute than other databases to deliver the same performance (see our Customer Case Studies). The best way to size your needs is to signup for a free trial and to test with a realistic workload.

You don’t need to worry about sizing storage.  Timescale just charges by the actual storage used, unlike Amazon RDS or self-managed infrastructure where you pre-provision disk and pay for its allocation.  As your data volume grows, we also autoscale its IOPS and storage bandwidth to meet those needs (at no additional cost within your plan’s range).
We make it easy for you to store unlimited amounts of data using Tiered Storage, which is comprised of a high-performance storage tier and a low-cost bottomless storage tier. You can keep up to 16 TB compressed (typically 80-100 TBs uncompressed) in the high-performance storage tier, and configure less-frequently accessed data to be moved to our low-cost storage tier built on S3.
Storage is priced the same across all regions, but compute prices will vary depending on the region.  We do so because our cloud provider (AWS) prices infrastructure differently based on region.
HA and read replicas are both charged at the same rate as your primary service, based on the compute and primary storage consumed by your replicas.  Data tiered to our bottomless storage tier is shared by all database replicas; replicas accessing tiered storage will not add to your bill.
Yes!  We run a global support organization that covers all timezones, and is even fully staffed for weekend hours.  Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) scores above 99%.

All plans have free Developer Support, via email and with a target response time of 1 business day (although often faster).  But if you need 24x7 responsiveness, talk to us about Production Support.
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