Skip to content
Navigation Menu

IBM Cloud

  • CatalogCatalog
  • Cost EstimatorCost Estimator
    • HelpHelp
      • Docs
  • Log in
  • Sign up
  • Catalog
  • Cost Estimator
  • Help
    • Docs

  • Navigation settings

Error

Change theme

This feature is in early stage, some parts of the platform might not fully support different themes yet.

Themes
  1. Catalog

Db2

A fully managed, high performance transactional database for mission critical workloads.

  • Date of last update: 06/18/2025
  • Docs
  • API docs
  • Service
  • IBM
  • 06/18/2025
  • Databases
  • HIPAA Enabled
  • IAM-enabled
  • Sydney (au-syd)
  • Frankfurt (eu-de)
  • London (eu-gb)
  • Dallas (us-south)
  • Sao Paulo (br-sao)
  • Toronto (ca-tor)
  • Madrid (eu-es)
  • Tokyo (jp-tok)
  • Washington DC (us-east)
  • Montreal 01
  • API docs
  • Docs
  • Terms

Pricing plans

Prices shown are for country or location: United States
PlanFeatures and capabilitiesPricing
Lite
  • 200 MB of data storage
  • 5 simultaneous connections
  • Shared multitenant system
  • Free

The Free plan provides a free Db2 service for development and evaluation. The plan has a set amount of limitations as shown. You can continue using the free plan for as long as needed, however, users are asked to re-extend their free account every 90 days by email. If you do not re-extend, your free account is cleaned out a further 90 days later. This helps provide free resources for everyone.


Lite plan services are deleted after 30 days of inactivity.
  • 200 MB of data storage
  • 5 simultaneous connections
  • Shared multitenant system

The Free plan provides a free Db2 service for development and evaluation. The plan has a set amount of limitations as shown. You can continue using the free plan for as long as needed, however, users are asked to re-extend their free account every 90 days by email. If you do not re-extend, your free account is cleaned out a further 90 days later. This helps provide free resources for everyone.

Performance (Gen 3)
  • Dedicated instance on VPC machines with flexible scaling of compute, storage and IOPS.
  • $160.00 USD/Resource Unit
Standard
  • Instance with flexible scaling of compute and storage
  • Base instance starts at 8 GB RAM x 20 GB Storage
  • $0.142 USD/Instance-Hour
  • $0.000282 USD/Gigabyte-Hours
  • $0.101 USD/Virtual Processor Core-Hour
  • $0.000031 USD/BACKUP_GIGABYTE_HOURS
  • $0.10 USD/SERVICEENDPOINT_INSTANCE_HOURS
Enterprise
  • Dedicated instance with flexible scaling of compute and storage
  • Base instance starts at 4 vCPU x 16 GB RAM x 20 GB Storage
  • Uses dedicated virtual machines
  • $1.36 USD/Instance-Hour
  • $0.000282 USD/Gigabyte-Hours
  • $0.314 USD/Virtual Processor Core-Hour
  • $0.000031 USD/BACKUP_GIGABYTE_HOURS
  • $0.10 USD/SERVICEENDPOINT_INSTANCE_HOURS
  • Service
  • IBM
  • 06/18/2025
  • Databases
  • HIPAA Enabled
  • IAM-enabled
  • Sydney (au-syd)
  • Frankfurt (eu-de)
  • London (eu-gb)
  • Dallas (us-south)
  • Sao Paulo (br-sao)
  • Toronto (ca-tor)
  • Madrid (eu-es)
  • Tokyo (jp-tok)
  • Washington DC (us-east)
  • Montreal 01
  • API docs
  • Docs
  • Terms

Summary

Built to run the world’s mission-critical workloads, IBM® Db2® database engine supports low-latency transactions and real-time analytics workloads to empower enterprises while modernizing data workloads to meet organizational AI and hybrid cloud needs.

Features and capabilities

Fast, Reliable & Robust

Uses Db2 technology for enterprise-level OLTP and mixed workload performance. Supports automated multi-zone high availability and multi-region disaster recovery capabilities. Supports .NET, ODBC, JDBC and REST. Compatible with Netezza and Oracle.

Fully managed, safe, and secure

Includes daily backups and ongoing transaction log archiving to Cloud Object Storage, at-rest database encryption, and SSL connections.

Flexible pricing & scalability

See plans for details. Both pay as you go and subscription based plans are available. Start small and scale up as you need it and scale down when you don't.

AI-powered query optimization

Db2 12.1 integrates advanced AI optimizer capabilities, allowing businesses to harness the power of AI directly within their database operations and elevating query performance through automated performance tuning, predictive analytics and intelligent query optimization.

Scale your Flex system on-demand

Focus sentinel
Close

(1/6) | Scale your Flex system on-demand

Focus sentinel

Getting support


If you're experiencing issues with this product, go to the IBM Cloud Support Center and navigate to creating a case. Use the All products option to search for this product to continue creating the case or to find more information about getting support. Third party and community supported products might direct you to a support process outside of IBM Cloud.

Summary

Db2

Free
  • Plan: Lite
Already have an account? Log in