# Valkey Pricing

Valkey is a high-performance, open-source database that stores key-value data in memory, and is designed for caching, message queues, and primary database use. Fully compatible with Redis, Valkey serves as a drop-in replacement.

There are two kinds of database cluster plans you can choose from: single node clusters and high availability clusters.

- **Single node clusters** begin at $15.00 per month for a single node cluster with 1 GiB of RAM. Single node clusters are not highly available, but they feature automatic failover. We recommend these clusters for preliminary development and testing.
- **High availability clusters** begin at $30.00 per month for a 2 GiB RAM/1 vCPU primary node with at least one $30.00 per month matching standby node for automatic failover.

  You can add or remove standby nodes at any time. Other features, like point-in-time recovery and read-only nodes, vary by database engine. [Learn more about feature availability](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/index.html.md#feature-availability).

Traffic to and from [managed databases](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/index.html.md) does not count against your bandwidth billing transfer allowance.

## Plans for Cluster Nodes

All managed databases are deployed onto Droplets with either [shared or dedicated CPU](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/concepts/choosing-a-plan/index.html.md#shared-vs-dedicated). For a list of the Droplet plans we offer for Valkey, see the [Managed Databases pricing page](https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/managed-databases).