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Why Growing Companies Choose TiDB Cloud Essential

Most databases force you to overpay, over-engineer, and over-plan. TiDB Cloud Essential, powered by TiDB X, is built differently. It offers predictable pricing, removes operational overhead, and helps your team ship features faster.

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Pay Only for What You Use

No wasted spend on idle resources. TiDB Cloud Essential scales compute and storage automatically, so costs match real usage—every minute.

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Accelerate Time to Market

One platform for transactions, analytics, and AI. Eliminate database sprawl and ship data-driven features faster with a unified SQL foundation.

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Future-Proof Data Foundation

Start small, scale endlessly. TiDB’s distributed SQL design grows with your business—no sharding, no migrations, no redesigns.

Everything You Need to Build Fast and Stay Lean

Workload-Aware Autoscaling

TiDB X automatically scales compute and storage based on real workload demand — no capacity planning, no manual resizing, and no wasted resources.

Predictable, Usage-based Pricing

Every query is measured in Request Units (RU), giving you a single, transparent way to map cost directly to usage. Set budgets, alerts, and limits to stay in control and avoid surprise bills.

Unified for Modern Workloads

Run transactional, analytical, and AI-driven workloads together in one system. TiDB Cloud Essential simplifies your stack and helps you build smarter, data-driven applications faster.

Always Reliable

Enjoy 99.99% uptime, multi-AZ fault tolerance, and continuous backups with point-in-time restore — so your data is always safe and your applications stay online.

Object-Storage Foundation

Your data is stored in durable, infinitely scalable object storage that cuts storage costs by up to 60% while maintaining enterprise-grade resilience and availability.

Object-Storage Foundation

Autonomous Operations

No more patching, tuning, or managing clusters. TiDB Cloud Essential handles maintenance and optimization automatically so your team can focus on development, not administration.

Autonomous Operations

From Open Source Roots to Modern Greatness

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We Build with TiDB

Tens of thousands of developers and startups are building applications with TiDB.

With TiDB, our users can concentrate on building their GenAI apps rather than worrying about setup. Our engineers have automated all database management tasks using TiDB's API, significantly reducing our time and effort.

Luyu Zhang
Founder & CEO / Dify.AI

In the following years, we will definitely migrate more clusters from MySQL to TiDB, use TiCDC to set up multi-region clusters on AWS for failover, and try TiFlash for instant analytical queries.

@Boris Savelev 

SRE Manager / Bolt

TiDB's architecture, sort of a SQL layer on top of a key value store, was more scalable and more likely to cause fewer problems down the line. With TiDB, we don't need to worry about cross-charge transactions. That's huge.

@Henry Qin

Software Engineer / Block

The NO.1 benefit is simplicity. With TiDB, our applications can retain their SQL data model and the ACID guarantees. We don't have to implement any kind of sharding logic, and the database management becomes simpler too.

@Kaustav Chakravorty
Senior Architect / Flipkart

The ease and comfort of getting started are paramount for us, and the fully managed operations of TiDB Cloud allow us to focus more on our core business, ensuring that our development resources are utilized where they matter most.

@Sky Dong
Founding Engineer / Chaintool

Scale-in and scale-out in a cluster configuration is also easy, and the ecosystem is very rich, with operation monitoring tools such as Grafana being able to be installed immediately with the installation command (TiUP).

@Kentaro Kitagawa
Senior DBA / LINE Corporation

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