# Create TiDB Cluster - Select a cluster tier
+ TiDB Cloud provides the following two options of cluster tiers:
  + Serverless Tier
  + Dedicated Tier
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Serverless Tier is a fully managed service of TiDB. It's still in beta and should not be used in production. However, you can use Serverless Tier clusters for non-production workloads such as prototype applications, hackathons, academic courses, or to provide a temporary data service for your datasets.

Dedicated Tier is dedicated for production use with the benefits of cross-zone high availability, horizontal scaling, and HTAP. For Dedicated Tier clusters, you can customize the cluster size of TiDB, TiKV, and TiFlash easily according to your business need. For each TiKV node and TiFlash node, the data on the node is replicated and distributed in different availability zones for high availability.

To create a Dedicated Tier cluster, you need to add a payment method or apply for a Proof of Concept (PoC) trial.