Timescale - AI Tools Nav

What it is for

Timescale (Tiger Cloud from Tiger Data) is a hosted Postgres-plus-time-series desk: you open Services, and Performance compute starts at $30/month plus storage at $0.177/GB-month (Scale from $36/month plus $0.212/GB-month; 30-day trial, no card). Use it when the job is time-series Postgres you start on a printed $ tile, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Tiger Console Services list (tiger-docs-postgres Ready, tiger-docs-aws TimescaleDB, a forked tiger-docs-fork, CPU / storage / HA columns) from the services still — not a pricing card. The table itself is ops of Services. Timescale, Inc. now does business as Tiger Data; the pricing URL we fetched still serves the Tiger Cloud ladder.

Key features

Services — a Postgres or TimescaleDB instance you provision (Services still; docs). One service. Cover rows (compute, storage, region, HA, service ID) and + New service / forks are ops of this. The Cloud SQL editor sits here.
Hypertables — a time-series table TimescaleDB adds on Postgres (pricing Time-series). A table type, not a service. Relational and vector-search workloads on the same page are other workloads, not extra desks.
Continuous aggregates — a materialized rollup that refreshes on the hypertable (docs). A rollup, not a table. Compression of old chunks is storage of Hypertables, not this card.
Replicas — an HA replica or a read replica you attach (official video; cover High availability column). A copy, not a service. HA Enabled vs No replica on the cover sit here.
Tiered storage — colder storage billed at $0.021/GB-month on Scale+ (pricing Tiered storage). A tier, not a replica. Performance prints Unlimited tiered storage without that $ on the compare row we fetched — confirm the live card.

Compute SKUs (Performance / Scale / Enterprise CPU ceilings) are the bill, not a sixth desk.

Who it's for

Best fit: teams who will burn the 30-day Performance trial (no card), then land on Performance at $30/month compute + $0.177/GB-month when the job is time-series on Postgres — not a serverless branch database.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from timescale.com/pricing (Tiger Cloud). Tiles print Compute starts at $30/month and $36/month, plus storage $0.177 / $0.212 per GB-month. Hourly billing; cancel anytime. 30-day free trial of Performance, no card.

Performance — compute from $30/month. Storage $0.177/GB-month. Up to 8 CPU / 32 GB memory / 16 TB storage. 30-day trial.
Scale — compute from $36/month. Storage $0.212/GB-month. Up to 32 CPU / 128 GB / 64 TB. Tiered storage $0.021/GB-month. Everything in Performance plus higher ceilings.
Enterprise — higher ceilings (up to 64 CPU / 256 GB / 64 TB). No Enterprise compute dollar printed on the tiles we fetched — do not invent one.
TimescaleDB (self-host) — the open-source extension on your Postgres. You pay that host. TimescaleDB Enterprise is a separate self-managed SKU — confirm that page; do not invent a self-host Cloud dollar.

Compute prices vary by region; storage is printed as the same across regions. Confirm checkout; taxes follow your location.

Limitations / costs

No forever-free Cloud card. The door is a 30-day Performance trial, then $30 + storage.
$30 is compute only. Storage is a second meter ($0.177/GB-month on Performance).
The brand is moving to Tiger Data. URLs still serve timescale.com/pricing and tigerdata.com/docs — confirm if the checkout domain shifts.
A time-series Cloud, not a serverless branch DB. For branchable Postgres see Neon. For HTTP analytics over events see Tinybird.

Alternatives

Neon — serverless Postgres when you want branches and a free compute tile, not Timescale hypertables.
Tinybird — real-time analytics APIs when the job is a published endpoint, not a Timescale service.
PlanetScale — Vitess MySQL when you are not on Postgres time-series at all.

Official tutorial

Official Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) channel video: PostgreSQL Replication: HA Replicas vs. Read Replicas in Timescale (oEmbed author: Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB)). First-party replica talk; the docs Services still is the cover.

Written path: timescale.com/pricing plus the Services still.

Website

https://www.timescale.com

Repository

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Tiger Console Services list from the docs still. Dollars checked on timescale.com/pricing (Performance compute from $30/mo + $0.177/GB-mo; Scale from $36 + $0.212/GB-mo; tiered storage $0.021/GB-mo; 30-day trial). Tutorial oEmbed author: Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB).

Last verified

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