Compare 24 free alternatives to SurrealDB Cloud for Databases. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.
reduceddiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow impact
Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗
All Free Alternatives (24)
21 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 2 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: 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), LanceDB (shares no subtype with this product), Gel (we have not classified this record), 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), 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). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
−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.
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
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What are the best free alternatives to SurrealDB Cloud?
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 24 free alternatives to SurrealDB Cloud, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 21 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 2 are demoted with the reason named, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is SurrealDB Cloud's free tier still available?
SurrealDB Cloud has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, discovered 2026-04-12: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source: https://surrealdb.com/pricing
How many free alternatives to SurrealDB Cloud exist?
There are 24 free alternatives to SurrealDB Cloud tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has SurrealDB Cloud changed their pricing?
SurrealDB Cloud has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was discovered 2026-04-12: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source: https://surrealdb.com/pricing
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