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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 and BYOS. The only thing that changes between plans is how much support sits behind it.

The model, in one line

Every paid plan unlocks the full dbtrail EE — forensics, RBAC, column redaction and BYOS. You're not buying features à la carte: you're buying the whole product. The only thing that changes between plans is the level of support.

Community
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Run dbtrail yourself — unlimited, forever. Your infrastructure, no limits.

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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.

Priority
$24,000 /year
full dbtrail EE
Less than one month of a senior DBA.
✓ Full dbtrail EE unlocked

The same product, self-hosted — with the deepest support relationship.

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 five capabilities come identical in Standard, Priority and Managed. There's no feature matrix to compare: you pick the price by support, not by what you unlock.

Forensics

Who changed each row, when, and from which connection. Full attribution.

Full RBAC

Roles and permissions, per table and column, over who sees and recovers what.

Audit-log export

Export the full audit surface for PCI, HIPAA or SOC 2.

Column redaction

Mask sensitive columns in the history based on the querying role.

BYOS / VPC

Row images never leave your infrastructure — they go to your own S3.

02    The Managed plan, no fine print

Standard and Priority, 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 — versions, schema migrations and patches are our responsibility. 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 only reads changes as a read-only replication client. 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 — 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.
Priority
Same product, deepest support
$24,000/year
Less than one month of a senior DBA.
Managed
We operate it end-to-end
Contact us
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.

Start tracking database changes today.

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.