How MongoDB prices

Captured October 26, 2026 at 1440px wide.
MongoDB plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| FreeFor learning and exploring MongoDB in a cloud environment. | $0 | /hour |
| FlexFor application development and testing, with on-demand burst capacity for unpredictable traffic. | $0.011 | /hour |
| DedicatedHighlightedFor production applications with sophisticated workload requirements. | $0.08 | /hour |
As printed on the page captured October 26, 2026.
How does MongoDB pricing work?
The value metric is cluster time, the way a managed database incurs cost, and every card pairs its hourly rate with a capacity strip. Atlas Core groups three plans. Free is '$0 /hour', 'Free forever', with 512 MB of storage on shared RAM and vCPU. Flex is '$0.011 /hour' with 'Up to $30/month' and 5 GB of storage, for development and testing 'with on-demand burst capacity for unpredictable traffic'. Dedicated is '$0.08 /hour' and 'Starts at $56.94/month', with a strip that runs '10 GB to 4 TB', '2 GB to 768 GB' and '2 to 96 vCPUs'. Atlas Infinite adds a fourth deployment shape at '$0.09 /hour' that 'starts at $65/month', built with 'decoupled compute and storage for modern agentic workloads' and sold on '128TB per HA shard capacity' and '1M + IOPS burst performance'. Add-ons price on their own rate sheet: Search & Vector Search nodes run from S20 at '$0.12/hr' to S80 at '$3.26/hr', filtered by cloud provider and node type.
The motion is self-serve with a specialist on call. A switcher sets 'MongoDB Atlas Fully managed cloud' beside 'Enterprise Advanced Self-managed', and the Atlas view runs in two product sections. Atlas Core opens with 'For unpredictable AI demand, try Atlas Infinite.', then cards with stage-named CTAs, 'Explore Atlas', 'Build a Prototype' and 'Scale Your Project', plus 'View Flex pricing' and 'View Dedicated pricing' links. Dedicated carries the Recommended badge, and a band under the cards offers 'Calculate Costs'. Atlas Infinite follows as one wide card with 'PUBLIC PREVIEW', 'AI-READY' and 'M10+ CLUSTERS ONLY' badges, 'Deploy Atlas Infinite', 'View Infinite pricing' and 'See preview limitations'. The add-on rate sheet comes next, then 'Compare Atlas Core plans' with Database and Deployments open, a 'Questions about pricing?' band with 'Chat Now', a six-question FAQ and a 'Get Started' close.
Under the hood, the hourly rate is the meter and the monthly figure is the budget line. Flex is metered usage with a ceiling, so cost tracks a test workload while the worst case stays at $30. Dedicated is a provisioned cluster billed by the hour from a published floor, and its strip shows how far the same meter stretches. Atlas Infinite is 'Available on M10+ dedicated clusters', which makes it a step up from Dedicated on the same hourly meter: a $0.01 premium over the $0.08 floor buys storage that scales apart from compute, and the preview label keeps room to tune the terms while it matures. Add-ons sit on their own per-node rate table, with prices 'based on us-east-1 region', which points to regional rate cards behind each provider. The Uptime SLA row, '99.995%' on Dedicated, marks where a production commitment begins. Worth borrowing is the pairing on display: a capped usage tier fixes the downside for developers, and a separately named premium tier gives elastic AI workloads their own price point while the core plans keep their rates.
What does MongoDB's pricing page do well?
- Every hourly price carries a monthly equivalent: 'Up to $30/month' on Flex, 'Starts at $56.94/month' on Dedicated and 'starts at $65/month' on Atlas Infinite
- Flex is a capped usage tier, so a development workload scales with use and stops at $30 a month
- Card CTAs name the buyer's stage: 'Explore Atlas', 'Build a Prototype' and 'Scale Your Project'
- Each card prints storage, RAM and vCPU under its rate, and Dedicated shows its full range from '10 GB to 4 TB'
- The Atlas Core intro links straight to Atlas Infinite for 'unpredictable AI demand'
What does MongoDB's pricing page reveal about its pricing strategy?
- Cluster time is the value metric, priced per hour and read as a monthly budget
- A ceiling on a metered tier turns usage pricing into a fixed worst case for prototypes
- Atlas Infinite requires M10+ dedicated clusters, so it expands production accounts on the same hourly meter
- Infinite is sold on storage per HA shard and IOPS, which names decoupled compute and storage as the premium
- Prices based on us-east-1 point to regional rate cards across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
Learn with Orb
- ProductSpend controls Flex prints a ceiling of $30 a month on a metered tier, a fixed worst case for prototypes, which is the predictable usage pricing Orb's spend controls are built to deliver.
- ProductExperience Kit A Pricing Calculator banner and a monthly equivalent beside every hourly rate turn cluster time into a budget, the job Experience Kit does with calculators on one source of pricing truth.
Questions about MongoDB pricing
How much does MongoDB cost?
MongoDB's pricing starts at $0.011/hour. The page shows 3 plans, including a free plan, with the top plan priced through sales.
What pricing model does MongoDB use?
MongoDB prices by usage, combined with flat-rate tiers. Buyers can sign up on their own or go through the sales team. Its plans are aimed mainly at developers.
Does MongoDB have a free plan?
Yes, MongoDB has a free plan. Paid plans start at $0.011/hour.
Does MongoDB offer an annual discount?
MongoDB's pricing page shows a single billing period. The listed prices start at $0.011/hour. Terms for the plans priced through sales are set with the sales team.
How is MongoDB's pricing page laid out?
The page shows 3 plans, highlights Dedicated, and includes a comparison table and an FAQ. The breakdown above marks 14 points on it: 8 things it does well and 6 insights into the pricing.
Is there a monthly cap on MongoDB Atlas Flex usage?
MongoDB Atlas Flex is metered at "$0.011 /hour" with a printed ceiling of "Up to $30/month", so a development workload's monthly bill tops out at $30. The plan includes 5 GB of storage on shared RAM and vCPU, with "on-demand burst capacity for unpredictable traffic". It is designed for application development and testing, and its card CTA reads "Build a Prototype".
What does MongoDB Atlas Infinite cost and what does it require?
Atlas Infinite is priced at "$0.09 /hour" and "starts at $65/month", currently offered as a public preview. It is "Available on M10+ dedicated clusters" and is "architected with decoupled compute and storage for modern agentic workloads." The plan highlights "128TB per HA shard capacity" and "1M + IOPS burst performance", and the page links to "View Infinite pricing" and "See preview limitations" for details.
How much do MongoDB Atlas Search and Vector Search nodes cost?
Search & Vector Search on Atlas is priced per node, from the S20 tier at $0.12/hr (106 GB storage, 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs) up to the S80 tier at $3.26/hr (3420 GB storage, 128 GB RAM, 64 vCPUs). The rate table can be filtered by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, and by High CPU, Low CPU or Storage-Optimized nodes. Listed prices are "based on us-east-1 region."
From the page as captured October 26, 2026. Current prices are on mongodb.com





