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Cloud/SaaS pricing options

Pay-As-You-Go

Pay only for the house of storage and compute used, with no commitments or contracts.

Subscription 

Subscribe to a pre-determined amount of storage and compute usage over a period at a discounted rate.

IBM Db2 on Cloud

IBM Db2 on Cloud is the fully managed SaaS database solution easy to deploy and scalable on demand for your transactional (OLTP) workloads.

Lite plan

For a sandbox environment

Free

  • Starts at 200 MB of storage
  • 15 database connections
  • Always-on security
  • Get USD 200 in free credit when you sign up
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Standard plan

For growing workloads on a development and testing environment

Monthly fee USD 99

Cost (based on price per hour)

  • Starts at 20 GB of storage and 8 GB RAM
  • HIPAA ready
  • Flexible scaling of compute and storage
  • 500 database connections
  • Multi-AZ support for high availability (HA)
  • Cross-region disaster recovery (DR)
  • Always-on security and customer support
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Enterprise plan

For dedicated compute, production-ready and mission critical workloads

Monthly fee USD 969

Cost (based on price per hour)

  • Starts at 20 GB of storage and 16 GB RAM
  • HIPAA ready
  • Flexible scaling of compute and storage
  • Unlimited database connections
  • Multi-AZ support for high availability (HA)
  • Cross-region disaster recovery (DR)
  • Always-on security and customer support
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IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud

A fully managed, high performance and elastic cloud data warehouse built for real-time analytics and flexible scaling of your analytics use cases. Available on IBM Cloud and AWS, all editions of Db2 warehouse on cloud provide:

- In-memory analytics
- Built-in ML
- Continual data ingestion for low-latency analytics
- Always-on security, backups and customer support

IBM Cloud

Flex One plan

For create new projects and independently scale compute and storage

Monthly fee USD 898

Cost (based on price per hour)

  • Available on IBM Cloud
  • HIPAA ready
  • Starts at 40 GB of storage
  • Up to 28 VPCs on scale compute
  • Up to 4 TB on storage
 
 
Get USD 1000 in free credits

Flex plan

For development, testing environment and infrequently accessed data

Monthly fee USD 2957

Cost (based on price per hour)

  • Available on IBM Cloud and AWS
  • HIPAA ready
  • Starts at 960 GB of storage and 186 GB of RAM
  • Up to 160 VPCs on scale compute
  • Up to 96 TB on storage
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Flex Performance plan 

For compute-dense and high-performance production workloads

Monthly fee USD 13,651

Cost (based on price per hour)

  • Available on IBM cloud and AWS
  • HIPAA ready (IBM Cloud only)
  • Starts at 2.4 TB of storage and 1 TB of RAM
  • Up to 576 VPCs on scale compute
  • Up to 144 TB on storage
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Next Generation

 

Suitable for all types of workloads 

Native support for object storage, open data formats and watsonx.data integration

Compute: 0.25/VPCs-hour
(est. 182/VPCs-month)

Block Storage: 1.58/TB-hour
(est. 1,158/TB-month)

Object Storage: 0.05/TB-hour
(est. 33/TB-month)

 
  • Starts at 32 VPCs
  • Scale compute up to 5760 VPCs

 

  •  Block storage upto 340 TB

 

  • Flexible object storage support
Software pricing options

Pricing for Db2 Software editions is based on the number of virtual processing cores (VPC) your server uses, with the price of each VPC being dependent on the plan signed up for.

Db2 Software

Run Db2 Software in your data center, on the cloud, or on your Kubernetes or OpenShift platform of your choice.

Community plan

For an entry-level edition of the Db2 data server for the developer and partner community; install and run it in minutes

  • All core Db2 features
  • Up to 4 cores, 16 GB RAM
  • Always-on security
  • Db2 Community support
 
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Standard plan

For small or midsize businesses with a high-performance database, with licensing options for hybrid cloud deployments

  • Up to 16 cores, 128 GB RAM
  • Multi-AZ support for high availability (HA)
  • Cross-region disaster recovery (DR)
  • Always-on security and customer support

Advanced plan

For enterprises with a licensing metric to facilitate hybrid cloud deployments; offers data warehousing, transactional and analytics capabilities in one package

  • Unlimited cores and RAM
  • Multi-AZ support for high availability (HA)
  • Cross-region disaster recovery (DR)
  • Always-on security and customer support
 

Db2 Warehouse

The high-performance data warehouse that combines in-memory columnar processing with in-database analytics and scaling of your OLAP use cases. On-premises or in your private cloud. 

- In-memory analytics
- Built-in ML
- Continual data ingestion for low-latency analytics
- Always-on security, backups and customer support

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