Best Supabase Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

25 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Supabase Situation

Risk Level: caution
Why: discovered 2026-09-03 — The free tier now has a 1 week inactivity pause, and compute is now a separate cost with a $10/month credit on paid plans. The free tier also has a spend cap.
Category: Databases
Pricing Page: supabase.com/pricing

Recent Pricing Changes (2)

restructured discovered 2026-09-03 medium impact
The free tier now has a 1 week inactivity pause, and compute is now a separate cost with a $10/month credit on paid plans. The free tier also has a spend cap.
reduced 2026-02-01 medium impact
Project pause policy tightened — inactive projects now pause after 1 week
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Read our detailed Database Free Tier Comparison 2026 guide with curated recommendations and service comparison.

Recommended Migration Targets

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

CockroachDB stable recommended
Basic
Databases Verified 2026-08-31
Neon stable recommended
Free
Databases Verified 2026-09-01

All Free Alternatives (25)

23 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 1 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), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Hasura Cloud (extends another 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), LanceDB (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), 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), ScaleGrid Startup Program (none of this category's subtypes apply), Google Cloud BigQuery (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.

CockroachDB stable
Basic
Databases Verified 2026-08-31
Free
Databases Verified 2026-07-15
Neon stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-09-01
Appwrite Cloud caution discovered 2026-09-05 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-23
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-13
Free Tier
Databases Verified 2026-09-02
Cloudflare D1 stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-09-01
Zilliz Cloud stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-25
Upstash stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-23
SurrealDB Cloud caution 2026-04-12 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-27
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-11
Aiven stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-28
Weaviate caution discovered 2026-08-28 restructured
Open Source
Databases Verified 2026-08-28
CrateDB stable
Free (CRFREE)
Databases Verified 2026-07-07
Chroma stable
Open Source
Databases Verified 2026-08-24
filess.io stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-28
codehooks.io caution discovered 2026-08-28 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-07-15
Turso stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-11
Nile stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-23
Nhost stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-25
Xata caution 2026-04-19 model change
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-22
Koyeb stable
Free (Database Only)
Databases Verified 2026-08-13
Convex stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-20
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
Turbopuffer caution discovered 2026-09-03 restructured
Pay-as-you-go
Databases Verified 2026-08-19
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
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:Supabase
seed
60a91ac395541fcd93a8591aec736fb6caebf93e1734c50c257799d756e69eb3
tie_count
23

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Supabase?
The best free alternatives to Supabase include CockroachDB (Basic), Neon (Free), Upstash Vector (Free), Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (Free Tier), Cloudflare D1 (Free).
Is Supabase's free tier still available?
Supabase has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, discovered 2026-09-03: The free tier now has a 1 week inactivity pause, and compute is now a separate cost with a $10/month credit on paid plans. The free tier also has a spend cap.
How many free alternatives to Supabase exist?
There are 25 free alternatives to Supabase tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has Supabase changed their pricing?
Supabase has 2 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was discovered 2026-09-03: The free tier now has a 1 week inactivity pause, and compute is now a separate cost with a $10/month credit on paid plans. The free tier also has a spend cap.

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