
Lite plan: Free tier
Take advantage of this perpetually free Lite tier for evaluation and development with a fixed amount of provisioned throughput capacity and storage. The Lite plan provides access to the full functionality of IBM Cloudant® for development and evaluation. The plan has a set amount of provisioned throughput capacity, as shown, and includes a maximum of 1 GB of encrypted data storage. Lite plan services are deleted after 30 days of inactivity.
Standard plan: Serverless scaling with pay-per-hour pricing
The paid Standard plan offers configurable provisioned throughput capacity and data storage pricing that scales as your application requirements change.

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Rate
The Standard plan is priced based on provisioned throughput capacity allocated and data storage used, with billing prorated hourly. Note that costs are for the provisioned throughput capacity allocated and not on the metered volume of requests.
Data storage
USD 1.00 per GB
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Lookup per second
USD 0.25
Write per second
USD 0.50
Query per second
USD 5.00
Dedicated Hardware plan: Bare metal for security, compliance
The Dedicated Hardware plan provisions a bare metal dedicated environment for the sole use of your Cloudant Standard plan instance(s) for isolation, security and compliance purposes.

Pricing
Rate
The Dedicated Hardware plan is a bare metal environment provisioned for the sole use of your Cloudant instance(s) for isolation, security, data sovereignty and compliance purposes. It is an add-on fixed price with billing pro-rated daily.
Dedicated Hardware environment
USD 5,000 per instance
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