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We don’t believe in treating customers differently based on what they pay, so every account gets all platform features, plus all 239 AI/MCP tools.
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What are you running?
Pricing OpenSearch? The calculator counts a high-availability cluster's three dedicated managers, and the cluster sizer draws it machine by machine.
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pgvector and TimescaleDB, included on Postgres. Instances start at 1 GB RAM.
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General purpose SSD, latest generation. 3,000 IOPS included at the lowest cost per GB: the right choice for almost every database, so we select it by default.
This is computed from the setup you built. Sign up and the credit is added automatically, no card needed.
The link reopens this exact configuration. The email carries the same link and its price, then one note if that price changes. Nothing else. Bigger setup? Get the free line-by-line audit →
You choose where it runs when you create the project. Which locations are open depends on the machine you pick.
Billed by the hour, so a server you keep for part of a day costs that part. Until you delete it, a project server runs around the clock.
This is computed from the server hours you selected. The credit is added automatically at signup.
The link reopens this exact configuration. The email carries the same link and its price, then one note if that price changes. Nothing else. Bigger setup? Get the free line-by-line audit →
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No plans, no subscriptions, no per-database fees. Add credits to your wallet and pay by the hour for what you run: compute, storage and egress on managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse, OpenSearch and Kafka, one flat hourly rate on a project server. Curious how much a platform's bill can swing between a quiet and a busy month? See our guide to Bill Variance.
Add from $5 up to $10,000 at a time, with presets of $5, $10, $25 and $50, paid via Razorpay. Save a card for one-tap top-ups; auto-recharge is opt-in, with a monthly cap and at most $150 a charge.
Everything is billed by the hour against your credits: a project server from around $0.02/hr in Europe, managed PostgreSQL or MySQL from $8.10/mo and Redis from $5.34/mo in Mumbai, ClickHouse from about $27/mo and OpenSearch from about $25/mo. A database bills compute, storage, egress and its public IPv4; a project server bills compute, plus 20% if you turn on daily backups.
Watch your balance, hourly burn rate and how long it lasts. We suggest keeping a minimum balance of about $20.
With a card on file or a past top-up, everything keeps running for 5 days after your balance reaches zero, then stops and is kept 24 hours; a top-up in that time restarts it. A deleted project server is kept as a copy for 14 days. Welcome-credit-only resources are deleted at zero. A shortfall is never invoiced.
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Every account gets all 239 MCP tools. Managed databases and project servers are all billed by the hour against your credits; the calculator above estimates the monthly total for a managed database.
Additional costs
Only pay for what you use.
Nothing hidden. Every rate listed.
Transparent pricing for managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse, OpenSearch and Kafka means every cost is documented upfront. No surprise line items at month-end.
Usage-based charges
Metered per unit as you use them, on top of compute, at the rates you are billed. Shown for us-east-1; ClickHouse is priced in the calculator.
Egress
Each GB a database sends to the internet, from the first GB, metered against your credits. Mumbai is the same.
Storage (gp3)
The data volume and the 20 GB boot volume, per GB-month, at the gp3 rate of the region picked in the calculator ($0.123 in Mumbai).
Backup storage
Incremental EBS snapshots. You pay for the data your backups hold, however many daily copies you keep.
PITR storage
For databases with PITR enabled. WAL segments archived to S3 for point-in-time recovery; volume depends on write activity.
On every instance
Billed on each machine (replicas, the ClickHouse Keeper, OpenSearch managers and Kafka brokers included) and shown in the calculator.
Public IPv4
Every managed instance gets a public IPv4, in every network mode, billed while it runs. $5.48 for ClickHouse.
Boot volume
Each node boots from its own 20 GB gp3 volume, billed at the storage rate above beside the data volume you choose.
Compare
$80+/mo in tools.
All included on Selfhost.dev.
See how Selfhost.dev's managed database pricing compares when you factor in what other providers charge separately.
| Feature | Market Price | Selfhost.dev |
|---|---|---|
| Connection pooling (RDS Proxy) | $21-44/mo | Included |
| Alerting (PagerDuty) | $21/user/mo | Included |
| Automated backups + retention | $15-40/mo | Included |
| PITR (Supabase) | $25/mo min | Included |
| AI infra management (239 MCP tools) | 7 to 42 tools elsewhere | 239 tools, included |
| Total standalone | $80+/mo | Pay-as-you-go |
* All 239 MCP tools and these features are included on every account, billed pay-as-you-go. Database infrastructure (compute, storage, egress and the public IPv4) is billed separately; for BYOC in your own AWS account, the calculator above estimates our fee. See full comparisons against RDS, DigitalOcean, Neon, Supabase, Aiven and Railway.