Best PlanetScale Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)
4 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.
Current PlanetScale Situation
Risk Level:source unconfirmed
Why: This offer has ended — we keep the page for the record and no longer rate it. We are not publishing a stability judgement for it until that is fixed.
PlanetScale retired its free Hobby plan on 2024-04-08, after stopping new Hobby databases on 2024-03-06. Hobby databases that were not upgraded were put to sleep with their data kept. The cheapest plan became Scaler Pro at $39 a month with 10 GB of storage. Source ↗
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal 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/
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
All Free Alternatives (4)
3 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.
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal 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/
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
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What are the best free alternatives to PlanetScale?
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 4 free alternatives to PlanetScale, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 3 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 PlanetScale's free tier still available?
This offer has ended — we keep the page for the record and no longer rate it. Our stored record says PlanetScale offers a free tier (Retired), and we are not publishing a stability judgement over it.
How many free alternatives to PlanetScale exist?
There are 4 free alternatives to PlanetScale tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has PlanetScale changed their pricing?
PlanetScale has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was on 2024-04-08: PlanetScale retired its free Hobby plan on 2024-04-08, after stopping new Hobby databases on 2024-03-06. Hobby databases that were not upgraded were put to sleep with their data kept. The cheapest plan became Scaler Pro at $39 a month with 10 GB of storage. Source: https://planetscale.com/changelog/deprecating-hobby