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Plans & Pricing

Priced for the database that matters.

The core is free and self-hosted, forever. Every paid plan unlocks the full commercial edition: forensics, RBAC, audit trail and SSO. What changes between the paid plans is who runs it, not what you get.

The model, in one line

Every paid plan unlocks the full dbtrail EE: forensics, RBAC, audit trail and SSO. You're not buying features one by one, you're buying the whole product. The only thing that changes is who runs it: you, or us.

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Run dbtrail yourself, unlimited and forever, on your own infrastructure.

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Standard
$9,000 /year
full dbtrail EE
Less than 3% of a single hour of downtime.
✓ Full dbtrail EE unlocked

The whole commercial edition, self-hosted. You run it.

Managed
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operated by dbtrail
A fraction of one incident a year, and you never see it.
✓ Full dbtrail EE unlocked

We run dbtrail end-to-end, so you never touch the plumbing.

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01    What every paid plan includes

dbtrail EE, in every paid plan.

These four capabilities come identical in Standard and Managed. There's no feature matrix to compare: you pick the plan by who runs it, not by what you unlock.

✓ Forensics

Who changed each row, when, from which host and client program. Every answer carries an honest confidence label.

✓ RBAC

Per-user roles and data profiles in the web console: who may do what, and who may see what, down to withheld tables and redacted columns.

✓ Audit trail

Every historical read and every recovery script generated, recorded as JSONL for PCI, HIPAA or SOC 2.

✓ SSO

OIDC single sign-on for the web console, with claim-to-role mapping from your IdP groups.

Plus BYOS / VPC on every paid plan: row images never leave your infrastructure, they go to your own S3. It ships in the open-source core, so it's yours to run either way; on Managed it's what keeps data residency while we operate the index.

02    The Managed plan, no fine print

Standard, you run. Managed, we run.

They're opposites: on the self-hosted plans dbtrail lives in your infrastructure and you keep it alive. On Managed we take on the plumbing end-to-end, so you never touch it.

dbtrail takes care of

  • The index infrastructure. The store where your change history lives. We provision and size it; you set up nothing.
  • Updates and upgrades. We own versions, schema migrations and patches. No maintenance windows for you to plan.
  • Backups, disk and recovery of the index. Sizing, disk-full, corruption: we carry it.
  • Monitoring the capture pipeline. Keeping dbtrail from falling behind your change volume is on us.

Stays 100% yours

  • Your production database. We never touch it. dbtrail reads your changes as a read-only replication client, nothing more. Managed operates our side, never yours.
  • Your data, if you want it. With BYOS on, row images still go to your S3 even while we operate the index, so you don't lose data residency.
In one line: you stay the owner of your database and your data; we take care of everything else, so the history is there the day you need it.

03    The math

Priced against the incident, not the server.

What each plan costs, next to what it saves you.

Standard
Full dbtrail EE, self-hosted
$9,000/year
Less than 3% of a single hour of downtime.
Managed
We operate it end-to-end
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A fraction of one incident a year, and you never see it.

For 90%+ of mid-size and large companies, one hour of downtime costs over $300,000 (ITIC, 2024). Against a single avoided incident, every plan is a rounding error.

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dbtrail's core is open source. Self-host it free, forever. Paid plans unlock the full commercial edition; join the waitlist and we'll reach out when they open.

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