Compare 4 free alternatives to PlanetScale for Databases. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

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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.
Category: Databases

Recent Pricing Changes (1)

removed effective 2024-04-08 high impact
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 ↗

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Recommended Migration Targets

These alternatives were identified from PlanetScale’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.

Turso stable recommended
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 2026-10-06
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Supabase stable recommended
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 2026-10-04 · catalogue date 2026-08-17
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Neon stable recommended
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), up to 100 projects, 10 branches per project, Neon Auth (60K MAU), auto-scaling up to 2 CU, scale-to-zero, 5 GB of Object Storage, and…
Databases Read 2026-10-04 · confirmed 2026-10-03
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CockroachDB risky 2026-09-15 removed recommended
Trial
Distributed SQL database. No free plan for new deployments since 2026-09-15, when CockroachDB moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing.
Databases Read 2026-10-01 · confirmed 2026-09-02
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−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.

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 2026-10-06
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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 2026-10-04 · catalogue date 2026-08-17
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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), up to 100 projects, 10 branches per project, Neon Auth (60K MAU), auto-scaling up to 2 CU, scale-to-zero, 5 GB of Object Storage, and…
Databases Read 2026-10-04 · confirmed 2026-10-03
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CockroachDB risky 2026-09-15 removed
Trial
Distributed SQL database. No free plan for new deployments since 2026-09-15, when CockroachDB moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing.
Databases Read 2026-10-01 · confirmed 2026-09-02
Profile
−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.
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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2026-10-24
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Frequently Asked Questions

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