| title | Plans and Limits |
|---|---|
| icon | CreditCard |
| description | Plan tiers, feature comparison, per-plan quotas, overage billing, rate limits, and default settings. |
PgBeam offers three self-serve plans. New signups start on Starter with a 14-day trial. No credit card required.
All limits apply per organization. Projects within an organization share the same quotas.
| Starter | Pro | Scale | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $9/mo | $29/mo | $99/mo |
| Annual price | $90/yr | $290/yr | $990/yr |
| Queries/day | 50K | 250K | 2M |
| Data transfer/mo | 10 GB | 50 GB | 200 GB |
| Projects | 5 | 20 | 100 |
| Databases | 3 | 10 | 50 |
| Connections | 20 | 100 | 500 |
| QPS | 10 | 50 | 250 |
| Team seats | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Query shapes | 100 | 1,000 | 10,000 |
| Custom domains | No | No | Yes |
| SSO (SAML/OIDC) | No | No | Yes |
Starter is for individual developers and small projects. It gives you enough headroom to run a production workload with moderate traffic. The 14-day trial lets you evaluate PgBeam without entering payment details.
Pro is for growing teams and production workloads. The higher QPS and connection limits handle multi-service architectures and busier applications. Three included team seats cover a small engineering team.
Scale is for teams that need enterprise features: custom domains, SSO, and significantly higher quotas. If you have multiple services, high traffic, or compliance requirements, Scale is the right fit.
Total queries executed across all projects in the organization, counting every SQL statement that passes through PgBeam. Cache hits count as queries (they still flow through PgBeam), but they do not generate upstream database load.
The daily counter resets at midnight UTC.
Total bytes transferred between PgBeam and your application (egress) per billing month. This does not include traffic between PgBeam and your upstream database.
Maximum number of concurrent connections across all projects. Each open connection from your application to PgBeam counts as one connection, regardless of pool mode. Using transaction pool mode helps reduce upstream connections but does not change the client-side connection count.
Maximum queries per second per project. When exceeded, PgBeam returns SQLSTATE
53400 (query rate limit exceeded). The rate limit is enforced per project,
not per organization.
Maximum number of distinct query fingerprints that PgBeam tracks for cache rules
and query insights. A query shape is the normalized SQL template with parameter
values removed (e.g., SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = $1).
New accounts on the Starter plan get a 14-day trial with full Starter features:
- No credit card required to start
- All Starter quotas and limits apply
- Overage billing is not active during the trial: queries exceeding the daily limit are blocked until the next UTC day
- Add a payment method at any time to convert to a paid subscription and enable overage billing
After 14 days without a payment method, the organization is suspended. Projects and configuration are preserved. Add a payment method to reactivate.
Paid subscribers (with an active payment method) use overage billing instead of hard caps. This keeps your traffic flowing when usage spikes, rather than blocking queries at the plan limit.
| Overage type | Rate |
|---|---|
| Query overage | $0.10 per 1,000 queries |
| Data transfer | $0.20 per GB |
| Additional seats | $10.00 per seat/month |
| Scenario | Overage cost |
|---|---|
| Starter plan, 60K queries in a day (10K over limit) | $1.00 |
| Pro plan, 70 GB data transfer in a month (20 GB over limit) | $4.00 |
| Scale plan, 2 additional team seats | $20.00/month |
Prepay annually for a discount equivalent to two months free:
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | You save |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $9/mo | $90/yr | $18/yr |
| Pro | $29/mo | $290/yr | $58/yr |
| Scale | $99/mo | $990/yr | $198/yr |
Switch to annual billing from Settings > Billing in the dashboard.
<Tabs items={["Upgrade", "Downgrade"]}> Upgrades take effect immediately. Your new plan limits apply right away, and billing is prorated for the remainder of the current period.
You keep all existing projects, databases, and configuration. Higher limits are
available immediately.
Before the downgrade takes effect, make sure your usage fits within the lower
plan's limits:
- Reduce the number of projects and databases if they exceed the new plan's
maximums
- Remove team members if you exceed the new plan's seat count
- Custom domains and SSO are disabled when downgrading from Scale
Cancelling the subscription suspends the organization but does not delete anything:
- Active connections are terminated
- New connections are blocked
- Projects, database registrations, and cache rules remain in place
- API keys are preserved but non-functional
- Reactivation is possible at any time: add a payment method to resume
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| QPS per project | Plan tier (10 / 50 / 250) |
| Auth attempts per IP | Rate-limited per IP address |
| API requests | Standard REST rate limits per key |
New databases and projects start with these defaults:
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| TTL | 60s | How long cached results are considered fresh |
| SWR | 30s | Stale-while-revalidate window after TTL |
| Max entries | 10,000 | Maximum cached query results per project |
| Enabled | false |
Caching is off by default for new databases |
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pool mode | Session | No connection reuse between clients |
| SSL mode | verify-full |
Full TLS verification for upstream |
For organizations with requirements beyond the Scale plan (custom quotas, SLAs, dedicated support, or volume pricing), contact sales@pgbeam.com.
- Organizations: How quotas, seats, and billing work at the org level
- Connection Pooling: Pool mode selection and sizing guidance
- Caching: Cache defaults and how to tune TTL/SWR
- Error Codes: Rate limit error codes and handling