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Service pricing

All Aiven services are billed based on actual usage so you only pay for the resources you use.

Services are charged by the hour while they are powered on. The minimum hourly charge unit is one hour. For example, if you create an Aiven service and power it off after 40 minutes, you are charged for one hour of usage. After 20.5 hours, you are charged for 21 hours. Powering off a service stops the accumulation of new charges immediately.

Costs for all services in a project are charged separately, but you can consolidate the charges for multiple projects by assigning them to a billing group.

Service plans​

The cost of an Aiven service plan is all-inclusive and covers:

There are additional costs for some features such as PrivateLink and additional storage. Network traffic is not charged separately, but your application cloud service provider might charge you for the network traffic going to or from their services.

Learn more about and compare the different plans on the plans and pricing page.

To ensure consistent performance and allow for seamless migration, all Aiven service plans have standardized resources regardless of the underlying cloud provider.

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Since available virtual machine (VM) sizes differ between clouds, services can be provisioned on a VM with more resources (CPU, RAM, or disk storage) than advertised. These additional resources are not guaranteed. Aiven reserves the right to switch to a more appropriately sized VM if one becomes available from the cloud provider.

Free plans​

The free plan is available for Aiven for PostgreSQL®, Aiven for MySQL, and Aiven for Valkey™ services. You don't need a credit card to sign up and you can use them indefinitely free of charge.

Free services include:

  • A single node
  • 1 CPU per virtual machine
  • 1 GB RAM
  • For PostgreSQL and MySQL: 1 GB disk storage
  • For Valkey: maxmemory set to 50%
  • Monitoring for metrics and logs
  • Backups

There are some limitations of the free services:

  • No VPC peering
  • No static IPs
  • No integrations
  • No forking
  • For PostgreSQL:
    • No connection pooling
    • max_connections limit set to 20
  • No support services
  • Only one service of each service type in your organization
  • Not covered under Aiven's 99.99% SLA

Free services do not have any time limitations. However, Aiven reserves the right to:

  • Shut down services if Aiven believes they violate the acceptable use policy or are unused for some time. A notification is sent before services are powered off.
  • Change the cloud provider, region, or configuration at any point in time.

To try a different service or use advanced features, start a free 30-day trial. You can run free services alongside a free 30-day trial without affecting your trial credits. Free services also continue running after your trial has expired.

You can upgrade your free plan to a paid plan at any time by adding a payment method to the project's billing group or by starting a free trial.

You can also downgrade a paid plan to the free plan as long as:

  • The data you have in that trial or paid service fits into the smaller instance size.
  • The free plan is available in the same cloud as the paid plan.

Custom plans​

Aiven service plans are optimized for the different clouds and to facilitate migration between them. If the available plans aren't a good fit for your workload, you can request a custom plan to suit your specific needs.

Credit card fees​

The prices listed on the website and in your invoices are inclusive of all credit card and processing fees that are payable by Aiven.

Some credit card issuers add extra charges on top of the fees Aiven charges you. The most common fee is an international transaction fee. Some issuers charge this fee for transactions where the native country of the merchant, processor, bank, and card are different. Aiven is based in Finland and the processor is based in the United States. Such fees are not added by or visible to Aiven, so they cannot be included in the prices or waived.

Free trials​

Aiven offers a free trial for 30 days with $300 USD of credits to explore the Aiven Platform. You don't need a credit card to sign up. You can use trial credits for any paid services and paid features like virtual private cloud peering.

Trials include:

There are some limitations:

  • You can only have one trial.
  • Trial credits are added to a single billing group. You cannot transfer them to another billing group.
  • You cannot create new services if your remaining credits would be spent too quickly.
  • You cannot end a free trial yourself before the end of the trial period.

If you didn't add a payment card to the billing group for your project, services in that project are automatically powered off when the trial ends or your credits run out. To keep your services running add a payment card and assign it to the billing group for the project with your services.

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