This page describes Spanner editions and its key features.
Spanner editions is a tier-based pricing model that provides different capabilities at different price points. Spanner offers the following editions to support your various business and application needs:
Standard edition: provides a comprehensive suite of established capabilities that include all of the features that are Generally Available (GA) prior to September 24, 2024 along with selected additional capabilities, such as reverse ETL from BigQuery and scheduled backups, in single-region (regional) instance configurations.
Enterprise edition: builds on the Standard edition and offers multi-model capabilities including Spanner Graph, full-text search, and Vector Search. It also offers enhanced operational simplicity and data protection using managed autoscaling and incremental backups.
Enterprise Plus edition: designed for the most demanding workloads that require 99.999% availability with multi-region instance configurations and geo-partitioning support. This tier includes all Standard edition and Enterprise edition features.
Editions features
The following table lists the features available for each edition.
What you need to do
Review features in the Spanner Standard edition, Enterprise edition, and Enterprise Plus edition.
Select an edition: Starting on September 24, 2024, select an edition for each of your instances. If you're using higher-tier features, select the edition that supports those features. After you select your edition, you are billed with the new Spanner editions SKUs. For more information, see Spanner pricing.
Starting on November 1, 2024, Spanner no longer offers its legacy pricing model. All new instances created after this date will use the editions pricing model.You can't create Spanner instances with the legacy Spanner pricing model after this date unless you are a Spanner customer under a Google Cloud commitment with discounts on legacy SKUs.
After January 13, 2025, if you haven't selected an edition for your Spanner instance, it will automatically upgrade to the lowest edition that matches your usage pattern to avoid workload disruption. In general:
- Regional instances will upgrade to the Standard edition.
- Regional instances with additional configurable read-only replicas or those using Enterprise edition features will upgrade to the Enterprise edition.
- Multi-region instances or those using Enterprise Plus edition features will upgrade to the Enterprise Plus edition.
If you are a Spanner customer under Google Cloud commitments with discounts on legacy SKUs, no action is required on your part. You can continue to use legacy SKUs until the expiration of your contract. You also have the option to upgrade to Spanner editions. We recommend contacting your sales team to understand your existing contractual obligation and renew your contracts to include the new editions SKUs, so you can optimize your total cost of ownership and get access to new capabilities that are only offered in editions.
Pricing
For information about Spanner editions pricing, see Spanner pricing.
Frequently asked questions
- What are the changes if I'm previewing Standard edition, Enterprise edition, or Enterprise Plus edition features?
If you're previewing Standard edition, Enterprise edition, or Enterprise Plus edition features and would like to continue using these features, select the appropriate edition that offers the feature.
After January 13, 2025, if you haven't selected an edition for your Spanner instance, it automatically upgrades to the lowest edition that matches your usage pattern to avoid workload disruption.
- What are the changes if I'm previewing Spanner Graph?
If you're previewing Spanner Graph and would like to continue using it, upgrade your instance to the Enterprise edition or Enterprise Plus edition starting on September 24, 2024. If you don't select an edition for your instance, after Spanner Graph launches in General Availability (GA), your instance will automatically upgrade to the Enterprise edition or the Enterprise Plus edition, based on the instance configuration you're using.
- What are the changes if I'm using a Spanner free trial instance?
If you're using a free trial instance, it will default to the Enterprise edition when you upgrade it to a paid instance. Once in Enterprise edition, you can upgrade the instance to the Enterprise Plus edition, or contact support to downgrade to the Standard edition.
- Can I upgrade my instance?
Yes, you can upgrade your instance to the Enterprise edition or Enterprise Plus edition. There is no data migration involved when you change the edition of your instance.
- Can I downgrade my instance?
Self-service downgrade isn't available. To downgrade the edition of your instance, file a support ticket. This process might take some time (order of weeks) to complete, assuming that your application isn't using any higher-tier features. We are developing a self-service option.
- Will granular instances continue to be supported with editions?
Yes, granular instances is supported in all Spanner editions. The minimum compute capacity you can set is 100 processing units or one node (1000 processing units).
- Will my instance undergo data migration when it upgrades to editions?
No, your instance doesn't undergo data migration when it upgrades to editions. This is a configuration change.
How do I stop using Enterprise edition or Enterprise Plus edition features so my legacy instance doesn't automatically upgrade to a higher-tier editions after January 13, 2025?
Enterprise edition and Enterprise Plus edition features:
- Custom read-only replicas: Move your instance to a regional instance configuration or delete your instance.
- Spanner Graph: Delete all property graph schemas in your instance.
- Full-text search: Delete all search indexes in your instance.
- Vector search: Stop using all KNN and ANN distance functions, and delete all vector indexes in your instance.
- Managed autoscaler: Change your instance from using the managed autoscaler to use manual scaling.
Enterprise Plus edition only features:
- Dual-region and multi-region instance configurations: Move your instance to a regional instance configuration or delete your instance.
- Geo-partitioning: Delete all partitions in your instance.
What's next
- Learn how to create and manage your instances.