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Cockroach Labs pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Cockroach Labs. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the databases tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Cockroach Labs pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Cockroach Labs catalogue entry carries a starting price of Free and a freemium pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Cockroach Labs review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Cockroach Labs feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Distributed SQL
- Automatic Sharding
- Multi-region Replication
- Geo-partitioning
- ACID Transactions
- Horizontal Scaling
- Survivability
- PostgreSQL Compatibility
Integrations
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Datadog
- PagerDuty
- Confluent
Security
- SOC2
- ISO27001
- HIPAA
- Encryption
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Kubernetes deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
- Cli support
People bring Cockroach Labs in for distributed sql database for scalable applications, multi-region deployment and failover. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Cockroach Labs are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Too few databases tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cockroach Labs (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs Cockroach Labs |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Cockroach Labs |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Cockroach Labs |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Cockroach Labs |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Cockroach Labs |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Cockroach Labs |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Cockroach Labs badges page.
Before you pay for Cockroach Labs
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Cockroach Labs runs on aws, gcp, azure, and is published by Cockroach Labs of New York, NY. The full record is on the Cockroach Labs review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Cockroach Labs pricing questions
- How much does Cockroach Labs cost?
- Cockroach Labs starts at Free. No tier-by-tier breakdown is published on the record we hold.
- Does Cockroach Labs have a free plan?
- Yes, Cockroach Labs is recorded as freemium, so it can be used without paying.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Cockroach Labs have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Cockroach Labs?
- The record lists 23 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for distributed sql database for scalable applications, multi-region deployment and failover.
- Does Cockroach Labs charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Cockroach Labs prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Cockroach Labs against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Cockroach Labs covering price, platforms and features.