What it costs
The published price of every line PrimDB can put on your bill, and worked examples so you can compute your own number before signing up.
On this page
Honest note. Honest note. PrimDB is in early access and billing is currently gate-bypassed, so what you actually pay today is nothing. The numbers below are the published plan shape, and they are what the biller charges once billing is on. Nothing here is an estimate we invented.
Plans
| Plan | Per month | Compute pool | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 512 MB | 1-2 |
| Solo | $5 | 2 GB | Real projects, one person |
| Platform | $20 | 4 GB | Unlimited, plus custom domains |
Every plan, Free included, has unlimited collaborators. There is no per-seat charge and no per-MAU charge for the users your app signs in.
Servers
- The managed PrimDB host is included in your plan. You never configure it.
- Your own server: the first one is free on a paid plan, then
$8/monthper additional server for management. The hardware bill stays with your provider and PrimDB never sees it. - A server we run for you: the provider cost plus a flat fee (
provider cost x 1.10 + EUR 12per server).
Add-ons, only if you switch them on
| Add-on | Price |
|---|---|
| SSO / SAML for your organization, plus audit export | $30/month |
| Priority / SLA support | $50/month |
| Point-in-time recovery | $8/month |
| Shared RAM pack | $5/month each |
| Dedicated IPv4 | $4/month |
| Storage | $0.02/GB |
| Egress beyond the included allowance | $0.02/GB |
Worked examples
Add the plan, then any server line, then any add-on you turned on. There is no other multiplier.
| You are | Lines | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Kicking the tires on a side project | Free | $0 |
| Shipping one real app with Postgres and Redis | Solo | $5 |
| Running your whole backend, several projects | Platform | $20 |
| Platform, deploying to one server you already own | Platform + first server free | $20 |
| Platform, deploying to three servers you own | Platform + 2 x $8 | $36 |
| A team that needs SAML on their own login | Platform + SSO | $50 |
| Platform plus point-in-time recovery on the database | Platform + PITR | $28 |
What to compare it against
The number that matters is not our price, it is your current total. Count the vendors behind one application: hosting, database, cache, search, object storage, auth, and whatever you pay for SSO. Most of the value here is collapsing that list, not undercutting any single line on it.
If you already have a working stack and only one of those lines annoys you, replacing that one line elsewhere is usually cheaper than moving. See when PrimDB is the wrong choice for the honest version of that.
Honest note. Bringing your own server changes the shape of this. You keep paying your provider for the hardware, PrimDB charges for the control plane, and your data never leaves machines you control. See Hosts.