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MongoDB pricing
MongoDB publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $9/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
MongoDB plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| M0 | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| M2 | $9/month | 2 | +$9/month, 2 more features |
| M5 | $25/month | 1 | +$16/month, 1 more feature |
| M10+ | $56.94/month | 1 | +$31.939999999999998/month, 1 more feature |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
M0
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 512 mb storage, learning and exploration.
M2
$9/monthOver M0, this tier adds:
- 2 GB storage
- Development and testing
M5
$25/monthOver M2, this tier adds:
- 5 GB storage
M10+
$56.94/monthOver M5, this tier adds:
- Dedicated clusters for production
Where MongoDB stops being free
M0, Free
- 512 MB storage
- Learning and exploration
M2, $9/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 2 GB storage
- Development and testing
What the product covers
The full MongoDB 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.
Core
- Document model
- Distributed architecture
- ACID transactions
- Real-time analytics
- Full-text search
- Time series data
- Geospatial queries
- Aggregation framework
Integrations
- Node.js
- Python
- Java
- C#
- .NET
- Go
- Ruby
- PHP
Security
- Encryption
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Auditing
Deployment
- Atlas-cloud deployment
- Self-managed deployment
- Kubernetes deployment
Platform
- Cloud support
- On-premise support
- Hybrid support
Localization
- All major programming languages language support
People bring MongoDB in for mobile applications, content management, real-time analytics, iot applications, gaming backends. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to MongoDB are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for MongoDB
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: 4 tiers between Free and $56.94/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
MongoDB runs on cloud (atlas), self-hosted, multi-cloud (aws, google cloud, azure), and is published by MongoDB Inc of New York, NY. The full record is on the MongoDB review.
MongoDB pricing questions
- How much does MongoDB cost?
- MongoDB publishes 4 tiers, from Free for M0 up to $56.94/month for M10+. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does MongoDB have a free plan?
- Yes. The M0 tier costs nothing and covers 512 mb storage, learning and exploration. Paying starts at $9/month for M2.
- What is the difference between M0 and M2 on MongoDB?
- M2 costs $9/month against Free, and adds 2 gb storage, development and testing.
- Is the M10+ plan on MongoDB worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is dedicated clusters for production. It costs $56.94/month against $9/month for M2. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with MongoDB?
- The record lists 27 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for mobile applications, content management, real-time analytics.
- Does MongoDB charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, 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 MongoDB 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 MongoDB against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to MongoDB to make a useful price comparison.