Tinybird

What it is for

Tinybird is a hosted ClickHouse analytics-API desk: you create a workspace, ingest a Data Source, and publish a Pipe as an HTTP API. The Developer card prints $49/month (0.5 vCPU, 25 GB). Use it when the job is SQL APIs you meter by vCPU, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Tinybird Create Workspace form (region us-west-2, name customer_rewards, sidebar Overview / Data Flow / Playground / Tokens / Pipes / Data Sources) from the classic quick-start still — not a pricing card. The form itself is ops of Workspaces.

Key features

• Workspaces — a region + name you open as the project (Create Workspace still; pricing Unlimited databases (workspaces)). One box. Members are unlimited seats on the printed org rows.
• Data Sources — a table you ingest (Events API, Kafka, S3, CSV) (quick-start; pricing Events API). A table, not a workspace. Storage is $0.058/GB after the included pack.
• Pipes — a SQL query you publish as an HTTP API (pricing Pipes API). An endpoint, not a table. Copy pipes and sink pipes have count limits (Developer: 1 active copy, 3 sinks).
• Tokens — a key you hand to a client (pricing Tokens API). A credential, not a Pipe. JWT prints on paid rows.
• Compute meter — vCPU you resize (pricing Compute / vCPU overages). A bill, not a Pipe. Overage $0.0002/second on Developer and SaaS. Playground and Explorations are ops of Pipes / Data Sources.

LLM credits ($100 Developer / $200 SaaS) are an option of Explorations, not a sixth desk.

Who it's for

Best fit: app teams who will buy Developer at the printed $49/month (0.5 vCPU, 25 GB) while they publish a first Pipe, then talk to sales for SaaS when they need up to 32 vCPUs and 500 GB.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from tinybird.co/pricing. The Developer card prints $49/month. The compare-table header prints Developer Starting at $25/month. A community-shaped row prints 0.25 vCPU, 1k requests/day, 10 GB, community support — no dollar on that block. Do not invent a Free $0.

• Developer (card) — $49/month. Shared infra. 0.5 vCPUs. 1 thread/request. 25 GB included storage. 2 replicas. Vertical scaling. Standard support.
• Developer (table header) — Starting at $25/month. Same column also lists compute 0.25 to 8 vCPUs. Treat $25 and $49 as both printed; confirm checkout.
• Community-shaped row — 0.25 vCPU, 1 thread, 1k requests/day, 10 GB, community support. No $ on the block we fetched.
• SaaS — Custom. Up to 32 vCPUs, 4–16 threads, 500 GB included, Standard or Premier support. Yearly-commitment discount mentioned. Do not invent a SaaS dollar.
• Enterprise — Custom dedicated cluster. Do not invent an Enterprise dollar.
• Meters — vCPU overage $0.0002/second. Storage $0.058/GB. Egress intra-cloud $0.01/GB; inter-cloud $0.10/GB.

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Limitations / costs

• The page prints both $49 and “starting at $25” for Developer. Do not pick one and hide the other.
• Do not invent a Free $0. The community-shaped row has no dollar.
• vCPU overage is $0.0002/second. A bursty workspace is a bill.
• An analytics-API desk, not a warehouse UI. For a warehouse with $300 credits see ClickHouse Cloud (not in this batch). For a stream processor see RisingWave.

Alternatives

• RisingWave — streaming SQL when the job is continuous ingest, not Tinybird Pipes.
• MotherDuck — hosted DuckDB when you want a warehouse notebook, not an HTTP Pipe.
• Hasura — GraphQL on Postgres when the API is CRUD, not analytics SQL.

Official tutorial

Official Tinybird channel video: How to ship fast software with big data requirements (oEmbed author: Tinybird). First-party talk; the docs Create Workspace still is the cover.

Written path: tinybird.co/pricing plus the workspace still.

Website

https://www.tinybird.co

Repository

https://github.com/tinybirdco

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Tinybird Create Workspace form from the docs still. Dollars checked on tinybird.co/pricing (Developer card $49; table from $25; overage $0.0002/s; storage $0.058/GB). Tutorial oEmbed author: Tinybird.

Last verified

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