Plans and Limits

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.

Plan comparison

	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	—	—	Yes
SSO (SAML/OIDC)	—	—	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.

Quota details

Queries/day

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.

Data transfer

Total bytes transferred between PgBeam and your application (egress) per billing month. This does not include traffic between PgBeam and your upstream database.

Connections

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.

QPS (queries per second)

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.

Query shapes

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).

14-day trial

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.

Overage billing

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

Spend limits

You can set a monthly spend limit to cap overage charges. When the limit is reached, additional queries are blocked until the next billing period. Configure spend limits in Settings > Billing in the dashboard.

Overage billing examples

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

Annual billing

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.

Upgrades and downgrades

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.

Downgrades take effect at the end of the current billing period. Until then, you retain your current plan's limits.

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

Cancellation

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

Rate limits

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

When a rate limit is exceeded, PgBeam returns SQLSTATE 53400 for query limits or HTTP 429 for API limits. See Error Codes for handling guidance.

Default settings

New databases and projects start with these defaults:

Cache 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

Connection pooling defaults

Setting	Default	Description
Pool mode	Session	No connection reuse between clients
SSL mode	`verify-full`	Full TLS verification for upstream

Enterprise

For organizations with requirements beyond the Scale plan — custom quotas, SLAs, dedicated support, or volume pricing — contact sales@pgbeam.com.