Best PocketBase Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

8 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current PocketBase Situation

Risk Level: source unconfirmed
Why: The page we cite for PocketBase states no terms we can read. We are not publishing a stability judgement for it until that is fixed.
Category: Databases
Pricing Page: pocketbase.io/docs/

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), Hasura Cloud (extends another 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), 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), ScaleGrid Startup Program (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). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Neon stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-09-01
Supabase caution discovered 2026-09-03 restructured
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-17
codehooks.io caution discovered 2026-08-28 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-07-15
Convex stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-20
Nhost stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-25
Free
Databases Verified 2026-07-15
Appwrite Cloud caution discovered 2026-09-05 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-23
Firebase stable
Spark
Databases Verified 2026-08-25
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded product deprecation on 2026-03-19: Firebase Studio (formerly Project IDX) shut down March 19, 2026. Cloud IDE and AI code generation features discontinued. Existing projects accessible until March 2027 for migration
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
2026-09-06
query_key
alternative-to:PocketBase
seed
51a01783d4bfdba3844d86f6830c2c9c886712e47069cbf737c040314391b8b0
tie_count
7

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to PocketBase?
The best free alternatives to PocketBase include Neon (Free), Convex (Free), Nhost (Free), Firebase (Spark).
Is PocketBase's free tier still available?
We cannot confirm that today. The page we cite for PocketBase states no terms we can read. Our stored record says PocketBase offers a free tier (Free), but we have not confirmed those terms against the source we cite.
How many free alternatives to PocketBase exist?
There are 8 free alternatives to PocketBase tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has PocketBase changed their pricing?
We hold no recorded pricing changes for PocketBase, but the page we cite for this offer states no terms we can read, so that is a statement about our records rather than a positive signal.

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