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Timeplus pricing
Timeplus publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, Timeplus pricing is free, then $199/month across 3 published tiers. 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, then $199/month
- Model
- Per month for cloud, quoted for self-hosted
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Timeplus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timeplus Proton | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
| Timeplus Cloud | $199/month | 7 | +$199/month, 7 more features |
| Self-hosted or BYOC | On request | 6 | Priced on request |
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.
Timeplus Proton
FreeThe entry tier. It covers apache 2.0 licence, single node only, full streaming sql engine, under 500 mb single binary, community support.
Timeplus Cloud
$199/monthOver Timeplus Proton, this tier adds:
- One to thirty-two CPUs
- 4 GB to 128 GB memory
- From 250 GB SSD storage
- Daily backups
- Up to twenty team members
- Support within one business day
- Fourteen day free trial
Self-hosted or BYOC
On requestOver Timeplus Cloud, this tier adds:
- Multi-node clustering
- Kubernetes or bare metal
- Customisable compute and storage
- Four hour support response
- Enterprise training and onboarding
- Annual subscription, quoted
Where Timeplus stops being free
Timeplus Proton, Free
- Apache 2.0 licence
- Single node only
- Full streaming SQL engine
- Under 500 MB single binary
- Community support
Timeplus Cloud, $199/month
The first thing you pay for:
- One to thirty-two CPUs
- 4 GB to 128 GB memory
- From 250 GB SSD storage
- Daily backups
- Up to twenty team members
- Support within one business day
- Fourteen day free trial
What the product covers
The full Timeplus 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
- Streaming SQL
- Unified streaming and historical
- ClickHouse-based engine
- Single binary deployment
- External streams
- Materialised views
People bring Timeplus in for real-time alerting on kafka topics where standing up a flink cluster is more work than the use case justifies, fraud or anomaly detection that must join a live event stream against recent history in one query, streaming etl from kafka or mysql change data capture into clickhouse without writing java, a small data team that needs continuous aggregation but has no platform engineers to operate jvm infrastructure. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Timeplus are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month. Timeplus starts at $199/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timeplus (this page) | Free, then $199/month | Per month for cloud, quoted for self-hosted | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs Timeplus |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Timeplus |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Timeplus |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Timeplus |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Timeplus |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Timeplus |
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 Timeplus badges page.
Before you pay for Timeplus
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: 3 tiers between Free and On request, 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.
Timeplus runs on linux, macos, docker, kubernetes, web, and is published by Timeplus of Vancouver, Washington, United States. The full record is on the Timeplus review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Timeplus pricing questions
- How much does Timeplus cost?
- Timeplus publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Timeplus Proton up to On request for Self-hosted or BYOC. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Timeplus have a free plan?
- Yes. The Timeplus Proton tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licence, single node only, full streaming sql engine. Paying starts at $199/month for Timeplus Cloud.
- What is the difference between Timeplus Proton and Timeplus Cloud on Timeplus?
- Timeplus Cloud costs $199/month against Free, and adds one to thirty-two cpus, 4 gb to 128 gb memory, from 250 gb ssd storage, daily backups.
- Is the Self-hosted or BYOC plan on Timeplus worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is multi-node clustering, kubernetes or bare metal, customisable compute and storage, four hour support response. It costs On request against $199/month for Timeplus Cloud. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Timeplus expensive for a databases tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month; Timeplus starts at $199/month.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Timeplus have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Timeplus?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for real-time alerting on kafka topics where standing up a flink cluster is more work than the use case justifies, fraud or anomaly detection that must join a live event stream against recent history in one query, streaming etl from kafka or mysql change data capture into clickhouse without writing java.
- Does Timeplus charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Timeplus 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 Timeplus against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Timeplus covering price, platforms and features.