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Comparison

PlanetScale vs TiDB Cloud

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Platform

Hosting model
BYOC
BYOC
Managed
Managed
Database compatibility
MySQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Vitess
Vitess
Services
Managed Databases
Managed Databases
Database capabilities
Automated Backups
Automated Backups
Automatic Failover
Automatic Failover
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Database Branching
Database Branching
Point-in-Time Recovery
Point-in-Time Recovery
Read Replicas
Read Replicas
Storage Autoscaling
Storage Autoscaling

Pricing

Compute billing
Instance based Cluster SKUs
Plan based TiDB Cloud Plans
Storage
  • Included storage — $0 · first 10 GB storage per cluster
  • Storage overage — $0.50 · per GB-month
  • Starter row storage — $0.20 · per GiB-month
  • Starter columnar storage — $0.05 · per GiB-month
I/O / requests
Unknown
  • Starter Request Units — $0.10 · per 1 million RUs
  • Essential Request Capacity Units — $0.20 · per RCU-month
Free entry / commitment
Self-service No sales interaction required.
Recurring free allowances No card required

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Other
  • Alibaba Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
Execution & placement
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
  • Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
  • Managed cloud: 19 Regions
Unknown

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Single Sign-On
SAML Base add-on; included with Enterprise
Eligible TiDB Cloud organizations
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
TOTP PlanetScale accounts
Unknown
Access Control
Unknown
Organization, project, and cluster roles TiDB Cloud
Encryption & secrets
Encryption at Rest
All plans
Dual-layer encryption; customer-managed keys optional Essential default, Dedicated always, Starter default off; CMEK for supported Dedicated AWS/Azure deployments
Encryption in Transit
TLS database connections All plans
TLS TiDB Cloud connections
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Private database connectivity Deployment support applies
Private endpoints; VPC peering Cloud/tier restrictions apply; VPC peering on Dedicated
IP Allow List
Database connections
TiDB Cloud public endpoints
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
Eligible use Qualifying customers; signed BAA and customer safeguards required
Eligible use Signed BAA and customer safeguards required
SOC Reports
SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II PlanetScale managed service
SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II, and SOC 3 TiDB Cloud