DocumentDB Pricing Calculator - On-Demand & Serverless
Estimate Amazon DocumentDB costs for provisioned on-demand instances and DocumentDB Serverless with Standard vs I/O-Optimized storage, backup, I/O, and CPU credit pricing.
Reference pricesExample monthly cost in US East (N. Virginia)
A single db.r5.large instance on standard storage running all month with 500 GB of storage, 200 GB of additional backup storage beyond the included allocation and 100 million I/O requests, priced by this calculator at AWS list prices.
Estimated total: $276.41 per month
| Breakdown | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
| Compute | $202.21 |
| ↳ 730 hrs x db.r5.large @ $0.277/instance-hr | $202.21 |
| Database storage | $50.00 |
| ↳ 500 GB @ $0.10/GB-month | $50.00 |
| Additional backup storage | $4.20 |
| ↳ 200 GB-month @ $0.021/GB-month | $4.20 |
| Standard I/O requests | $20.00 |
| ↳ 100M requests @ $0.20/1M | $20.00 |
Priced on 15 Oct 2026 from CloudBurn's AWS price data. Prices in USD, excluding tax.
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