TiDB Cloud Billing

TiDB Cloud charges according to the resources that you consume. You can visit TiDB Cloud Pricing Details to get more information.

Invoices

If you are the owner or billing administrator of your organization, you can manage the invoice information of TiDB Cloud. Otherwise, skip this section.

After you set up the payment method, TiDB Cloud will generate an invoice once your cost reaches a quota, which is $500 by default. If you want to raise the quota or receive one invoice per month, you can contact our sales.

After you contact our sales for receiving an invoice on a monthly basis, TiDB Cloud will generate the invoice for the previous month at the beginning of each month.

Invoice costs include TiDB cluster usage consumption, discounts, backup storage costs, support service cost, credit consumption, and data transmission costs in your organization.

For each monthly invoice:

• TiDB Cloud provides the invoice to you on the ninth of each month. From the first to the ninth day, you cannot view the last month's cost details, but can obtain the cluster usage information of this month via the billing console.
• The default method for paying invoices is credit card deduction. If you want to use other payment methods, please send a ticket request to let us know.
• You can view the summary and details of charges for the current month and the previous month.

To view the list of invoices, perform the following steps:

1. Click the account name in the upper-right corner of the TiDB Cloud console.
2. Click Billing. The invoices page is displayed.

Billing details

If you are the owner or billing administrator of the organization, you can view and export the billing details of TiDB Cloud. Otherwise, skip this section.

After setting the payment method, TiDB Cloud will generate the invoice and billing details of the historical months, and generate the bill details of the current month at the beginning of each month. The billing details include your organization's TiDB cluster usage consumption, discounts, backup storage costs, data transmission costs, support service cost, credit consumption, and project splitting information.

To view the billing details, perform the following steps:

1. Click the account name in the upper-right corner of the TiDB Cloud console.
2. Click Billing.
3. Click Bills. The billing details page is displayed.

The billing details page shows the billing summary by project and by service. You can also see the usage details and download the data in CSV format.

Credits

TiDB Cloud offers a certain number of credits for Proof of Concept (PoC) users. One credit is equivalent to one U.S. dollar. You can use credits to pay TiDB cluster fees before the credits become expired.

The detailed information of your credits is available on the Credits page, including your total credits, available credits, current usage, and the status.

To view this page, perform the following steps:

1. Click the account name in the upper-right corner of the TiDB Cloud console.
2. Click Billing.
3. Click Credits. The credit details page is displayed.

Payment method

If you are the owner or billing administrator of your organization, you can manage the payment information of TiDB Cloud. Otherwise, skip this section.

Add a credit card

The fee is deducted from a bound credit card according to your cluster usage. To add a valid credit card, you can use either of the following methods:

• When you are creating a cluster:

  1. Before you click Create Cluster on the Create a Cluster page, click Add Credit Card at the bottom of the Billing Calculator pane.
  2. In the Add a Card dialog box, fill in the card information and billing address.
  3. Click Save Card.

• Anytime in the billing console:

  1. Click the account name in the upper-right corner of the TiDB Cloud console.
  2. Click Billing.
  3. Under the Payment Method tab, click Add a New Card.
  4. Fill in the billing address and card information, and then click Save.

You can bind multiple credit cards, and set one of them as the default credit card in the payment method of the billing console. After setting, subsequent billings will be automatically deducted from the default credit card.

To set the default credit card, perform the following steps:

1. Click the account name in the upper-right corner of the TiDB Cloud console.
2. Click Billing.
3. Click the Payment Method tab.
4. Select a credit card in the credit card list, and click Set as default.

Edit billing profile information

The billing profile information includes the business legal address and tax registration information. By providing your tax registration number, certain taxes might be exempted from your invoice.

To edit the billing profile information, perform the following steps:

1. Click the account name in the upper-right corner of the TiDB Cloud console.
2. Click Billing.
3. Click the Payment Method tab.
4. Edit the billing profile information, and then click Save.