Pricing
Cloud provider pricing for Alien KV resources.
Alien provisions KV in your customer's cloud. The customer pays the cloud provider directly — there is no Alien markup on infrastructure costs.
Prices shown for US East regions. Last verified: April 2026.
Request Pricing
| Provider | Service | Reads | Writes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | DynamoDB (on-demand) | $0.25 per million RRU | $1.25 per million WRU |
| GCP | Firestore | $0.06 per 100K reads ($0.60/M) | $0.18 per 100K writes ($1.80/M) |
| Azure | Table Storage | $0.00036 per 10K txns ($0.036/M) | $0.00036 per 10K txns ($0.036/M) |
Azure Table Storage is significantly cheaper per transaction but has the most limited query capabilities.
Storage Pricing
| Provider | Price per GB/month |
|---|---|
| AWS DynamoDB | $0.25 |
| GCP Firestore | $0.18 |
| Azure Table Storage | $0.045 |
Example: 10M Reads + 1M Writes + 1 GB Storage/month
| Provider | Reads | Writes | Storage | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS DynamoDB | $2.50 | $1.25 | $0.25 | $4.00 |
| GCP Firestore | $6.00 | $1.80 | $0.18 | $7.98 |
| Azure Table Storage | $0.36 | $0.036 | $0.045 | $0.44 |
Free Tiers
- AWS DynamoDB: 25 GB storage, 25 WCU + 25 RCU provisioned (always free).
- GCP Firestore: 1 GiB storage, 50K reads, 20K writes, 20K deletes/day (always free).
- Azure Table Storage: 5 GB with shared throughput (12 months).
Platform Notes
- DynamoDB on-demand pricing is used because Alien provisions tables with
PAY_PER_REQUESTbilling. No capacity planning needed but per-request cost is higher than provisioned mode. - Firestore charges separately for reads, writes, and deletes. TTL-based deletions are free.
- Azure Table Storage has flat per-transaction pricing regardless of operation type.