CockroachDB

What it is for

CockroachDB is a hosted SQL Activity fingerprint desk: you open a slow JOIN, and Cockroach Continuum Standard is $0.092 / vCPU-hour (docs example ≈ $203/month at 2 vCPU · 100 GB on AWS us-east-1). Use it when the job is a distributed SQL statement you bill per vCPU, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is Cockroach’s official Statement Fingerprint (SELECT name, count(rides.id)…, database movr, 6.6 ms, 25 executions) from the SQL Activity still — not a pricing card. The SQL itself is ops of SQL Activity.

Key features

• Statement Fingerprint — one normalized SQL with time, rows, and retries (cover still; Statements). One desk. Cover movr / rides sit here.
• SQL Activity list — top fingerprints by % of runtime (movr still). A table, not the detail pane.
• Metrics dashboards — SQL / storage / replication graphs (DB Console). A graph, not a fingerprint.
• Databases — system and user databases in the cluster (DB Console). A catalog, not a statement.
• Jobs / Insights — running jobs and health signals (DB Console). A queue, not SQL Activity.

Explain Plans / Diagnostics tabs on the cover are ops of the same fingerprint (not extra desks). $0.092 / vCPU-hr is the meter. Self-host Core/Enterprise is a separate license — we quote Continuum Cloud $ only.

Who it's for

Best fit: teams who will burn the 30-day / $400 trial on a first Statement Fingerprint, then Standard at $0.092 / vCPU-hr (example $203/mo) when the trial ends — not Mission Critical’s dedicated $0.162 / vCPU-hr unless they need 99.999% and HIPAA.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from cockroachlabs.com/pricing. Rates below are AWS us-east-1. Continuum applies to new Cloud orgs on/after 2026-09-15.

• Free trial — 30 days and $400 credit for new Cloud orgs. No card for Standard; Mission Critical requires a card.
• Standard — $0.092 / vCPU-hour (page example ≈ $203/month at 2 vCPU · 100 GB). Shared infra. 99.99% SLA. Usage-based storage. Table also prints Standard from $0.057 / vCPU-hr — confirm the region rate card.
• Mission Critical — $0.162 / vCPU-hour (page example ≈ $1,528/month at 12 vCPU · 100 GB). Dedicated infra. 99.999% multi-region. Example compute $1,420 + provisioned storage $70 (100 GiB × 4.5× × $0.155 / GiB-mo) + backups $38.
• Add-ons — CDC $0.006 / vCPU-hr on Standard, $0.023 on Mission Critical. PCR / virtualization $0.023 / vCPU-hr (limited / preview).
• Credits — committed-use credits are $1 each. Idle clusters still bill provisioned compute + storage.

Confirm checkout; taxes follow your location. Self-host binaries are a different path — do not invent a Core dollar.

Limitations / costs

• Idle still bills. Scale down or delete; queries do not pause the meter.
• Edition cannot change in place. Standard → Mission Critical is backup / restore to a new cluster.
• A fingerprint desk, not Neon’s serverless SQL. For that branch model see Neon.

Alternatives

• Neon — serverless Postgres when you want Neon’s public $, not Cockroach vCPU-hours.
• PlanetScale — sharded MySQL when you want PlanetScale’s public $, not movr fingerprints.
• Supabase — Postgres studio when you want Supabase’s Free / Pro, not Continuum Standard.

Official tutorial

Written path: SQL Activity plus cockroachlabs.com/pricing. We did not embed a Cockroach YouTube — oEmbed author was not verified as official.

Website

https://www.cockroachlabs.com

Repository

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Cockroach’s official Statement Fingerprint still (movr rides JOIN + 6.6 ms). Dollars checked on cockroachlabs.com/pricing (Standard $0.092 / vCPU-hr ≈ $203/mo; Mission Critical $0.162 / vCPU-hr; trial $400).

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.