Compare 8 free alternatives to Appwrite Cloud for Databases. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

Best Appwrite Cloud Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

8 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Appwrite Cloud Situation

Risk Level: caution
Why: effective 2026-06-29 — Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source ↗
Category: Databases
Pricing Page: appwrite.io/pricing

Recent Pricing Changes (5)

reduced effective 2026-06-29 high impact
Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source ↗
reduced effective 2026-04-30 medium impact
Appwrite began enforcing Realtime limits on 2026-04-30, with the Free plan at 2 million messages a month, down from the 3 million its pricing page had listed, and a new 256 KB maximum message size. It announced the enforcement on 2026-03-23. Source ↗
reduced effective 2026-02-20 high impact
Appwrite began pausing Free projects after 7 consecutive days with no development activity. Its pricing page had said Free projects were "Never paused" until January 2026, and users reported pauses from 2026-03-09. Source ↗
reduced effective 2026-01-08 medium impact
Appwrite cut its Free plan from five functions per project to two. Projects that already had more keep them, but cannot create new functions until they are under the limit. Source ↗
reduced effective 2025-07-23 high impact
Appwrite limited its Free plan to two projects per organization, down from unlimited. It announced the limit on 2025-07-23, and organizations with more projects kept them until 2025-09-01. Source ↗

All Free Alternatives (8)

7 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 1 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Left out of this list: Koyeb (shares no subtype with this product), MongoDB Atlas (shares no subtype with this product), CockroachDB (shares no subtype with this product), Turso (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash (shares no subtype with this product), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Aiven (shares no subtype with this product), Xata (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare D1 (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare KV (shares no subtype with this product), Momento (shares no subtype with this product), Nile (shares no subtype with this product), DynamoDB Local (runs only on a developer machine), Redis Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Prisma Accelerate (extends another product), SurrealDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Weaviate (shares no subtype with this product), Zilliz Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), LanceDB (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash Vector (shares no subtype with this product), Chroma (shares no subtype with this product), Turbopuffer (shares no subtype with this product), Gel (we have not classified this record), CrateDB (shares no subtype with this product), Neo4j AuraDB (shares no subtype with this product), InfluxDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Hasura (extends another product), Couchbase Capella (shares no subtype with this product), filess.io (shares no subtype with this product), restdb.io (shares no subtype with this product), SeaTable (none of this category's subtypes apply), skyvia.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), StackBy (none of this category's subtypes apply), Google Cloud BigQuery (shares no subtype with this product), Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (shares no subtype with this product), PlanetScale (we have not classified this record). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Convex stable
Free
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-19
Firebase stable
Spark
Databases Read 2026-09-22 · catalogue date 2026-08-25
8base.com stable
Free
Databases Read 2026-07-15
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-28
Nhost stable
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-24 · catalogue date 2026-08-25
Supabase stable
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-19 · catalogue date 2026-08-17
Neon stable
Free
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-13
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-16 · catalogue date 2026-08-11
−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-16, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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2026-09-30
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alternative-to:Appwrite Cloud
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7

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Appwrite Cloud?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 8 free alternatives to Appwrite Cloud, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 7 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Appwrite Cloud's free tier still available?
Appwrite Cloud has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, on 2026-06-29: Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source: https://appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-06-29
How many free alternatives to Appwrite Cloud exist?
There are 8 free alternatives to Appwrite Cloud tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has Appwrite Cloud changed their pricing?
Appwrite Cloud has 5 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-06-29: Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source: https://appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-06-29

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