Compare 12 free alternatives to CockroachDB for Databases. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

Best CockroachDB Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

12 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current CockroachDB Situation

Risk Level: risky

Why: effective 2026-09-15 — CockroachDB stopped offering its free Basic plan (50 million RUs and 10 GiB of storage free per month) to new deployments on 2026-09-15, when it moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing. New Cloud organizations now get a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit. Clusters created before 2026-09-15 stay on their existing plans during their current term. Source ↗

Category: Databases

Pricing Page: www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/

Recent Pricing Changes (1)

removed effective 2026-09-15 high impact

CockroachDB stopped offering its free Basic plan (50 million RUs and 10 GiB of storage free per month) to new deployments on 2026-09-15, when it moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing. New Cloud organizations now get a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit. Clusters created before 2026-09-15 stay on their existing plans during their current term. Source ↗

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All Free Alternatives (12)

12 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 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: MongoDB Atlas (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash (shares no subtype with this product), Firebase (shares no subtype with this product), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Convex (shares no subtype with this product), Appwrite Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), PocketBase (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare KV (shares no subtype with this product), Momento (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), 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), Neo4j AuraDB (shares no subtype with this product), InfluxDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Hasura (extends another product), 8base.com (shares no subtype with this product), codehooks.io (shares no subtype with this product), Couchbase Capella (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), PlanetScale (we have not classified this record), Cloudflare Vectorize (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Nhost stable

Free

Open-source backend with Postgres and Hasura GraphQL, plus Auth, Storage and Functions. The Starter plan is $0 a month: 1 GB database, 1 GB storage and 5 GB egress, with functions, realtime APIs and unlimited users.

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-03

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Xata stable

Free

Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero. Self-hosted on Kubernetes — free forever.

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-02

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CrateDB stable

Free (CRFREE)

Distributed SQL database for time-series and IoT — free cloud tier (CRFREE): 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, 8 GB storage. One free cluster per org.

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-12

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Supabase stable

Free

Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions. The Free plan is $0: unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, a 500 MB database on a shared CPU with 500 MB RAM, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage, 500,000 Edge Function…

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-02

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filess.io stable

Free

filess.io is a platform where you can create two databases with up to 10 MB per database of the following DBMS for free: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-10-29

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SurrealDB Cloud stable

Free

Multi-model cloud database — The 'Start' plan offers 1GB of storage free, forever, and a free compute instance with 0.25 vCPU and 1 GB memory ($0.000/hr). Further instances are available from $0.021/hr.

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-10-28

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Neon stable

Free

Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 1 GB of Postgres storage per project (20 GB total across all projects), 5 GB of public network transfer per project per month, up to 100 projects, 10 branches per project, Neon Auth (60K MAU), auto-scaling up to…

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-10-28

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Nile stable

Free

Postgres for multi-tenant apps — 1 GB storage, 50M serverless query tokens, 500 max connections. Unlimited databases and tenant DBs.

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-05

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Aiven stable

Free

Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible), Apache Kafka, or OpenSearch — one free service of each type per organization. PostgreSQL and MySQL: 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB disk; PostgreSQL has 20 connections and no connection pooling.

Databases Read 2026-10-30 · confirmed 2026-09-13

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Turso stable

Free

Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free. On 2026-10-02 Turso announced that Supabase is acquiring it.

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-10-30

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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL stable

Free Tier

Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless on AWS Free Tier — managed PostgreSQL-compatible database with automatic scaling. Free plan: up to 4 ACUs and 1 GiB of storage per cluster, paid from AWS credits ($100 at sign-up, up to $100 more).

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-10-30

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Cloudflare D1 stable

Free

SQLite at the edge — 5M rows read/day, 100K rows written/day, 5 GB total storage. Resets daily at midnight UTC

On the Free plan, once the account reaches its daily read or write limit, D1 refuses queries and returns errors until the limits reset at 00:00 UTC; upgrading to Workers Paid removes the limits. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-20.)
On the Free plan a single D1 database can hold at most 500 MB, and an account can have at most 10 databases, within the 5 GB account total. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits, read 2026-10-20.)
Cloudflare D1's free plan needs no credit card. (From cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/d1, read 2026-10-22.)
D1 usage past Free limits requires the Workers Paid plan. That plan has a minimum charge of $5 per month per account. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
The Workers Paid plan includes 25 billion rows read, 50 million rows written, and 5 GB storage monthly. Rows read overage is $0.001 per million. Rows written overage is $1.00 per million. Storage overage is $0.75 per GB-mo. There are no egress charges. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
Time Travel restores a database from up to 30 days ago on Workers Paid and 7 days on Free. The paid plan has a 10 GB maximum database size and 1 TB storage per account. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)

Databases Read and confirmed 2026-10-26

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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.

date: 2026-11-14
query_key: alternative-to:CockroachDB
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tie_count: 12

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to CockroachDB?

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 12 free alternatives to CockroachDB, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 12 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Is CockroachDB's free tier still available?

No. What CockroachDB offers is a trial that expires (Trial). CockroachDB's free offer is considered risky because of one specific recorded change, on 2026-09-15: CockroachDB stopped offering its free Basic plan (50 million RUs and 10 GiB of storage free per month) to new deployments on 2026-09-15, when it moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing. New Cloud organizations now get a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit. Clusters created before 2026-09-15 stay on their existing plans during their current term. Source: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachdb/pricing/ Consider migrating to a more stable alternative.

How many free alternatives to CockroachDB exist?

There are 12 free alternatives to CockroachDB tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.

Has CockroachDB changed their pricing?

CockroachDB has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was on 2026-09-15: CockroachDB stopped offering its free Basic plan (50 million RUs and 10 GiB of storage free per month) to new deployments on 2026-09-15, when it moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing. New Cloud organizations now get a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit. Clusters created before 2026-09-15 stay on their existing plans during their current term. Source: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachdb/pricing/