13 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.
Current Xata Situation
Risk Level:caution
Why:effective 2026-04-19 — Xata pivoted to open source (Apache 2.0) in April 2026. SaaS free tier (15 GB storage, 75 req/s, 10 branches, daily backups) retired. Free-forever usage now requires self-hosting on Kubernetes; the managed platform is paid with a 14-day free trial and $100 credit. Source ↗
Xata pivoted to open source (Apache 2.0) in April 2026. SaaS free tier (15 GB storage, 75 req/s, 10 branches, daily backups) retired. Free-forever usage now requires self-hosting on Kubernetes; the managed platform is paid with a 14-day free trial and $100 credit. Source ↗
Recommended Migration Targets
These alternatives were identified from Xata’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.
13 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 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: MongoDB Atlas (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash (shares no subtype with this product), Firebase (shares no subtype with this product), 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), 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), Neo4j AuraDB (shares no subtype with this product), 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), 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), 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.
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.
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 13 free alternatives to Xata, each listed below with its tier, category and the date we last verified it. Of those, 13 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Xata's free tier still available?
Xata has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, on 2026-04-19: Xata pivoted to open source (Apache 2.0) in April 2026. SaaS free tier (15 GB storage, 75 req/s, 10 branches, daily backups) retired. Free-forever usage now requires self-hosting on Kubernetes; the managed platform is paid with a 14-day free trial and $100 credit. Source: https://xata.io/pricing
How many free alternatives to Xata exist?
There are 13 free alternatives to Xata tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has Xata changed their pricing?
Xata has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was on 2026-04-19: Xata pivoted to open source (Apache 2.0) in April 2026. SaaS free tier (15 GB storage, 75 req/s, 10 branches, daily backups) retired. Free-forever usage now requires self-hosting on Kubernetes; the managed platform is paid with a 14-day free trial and $100 credit. Source: https://xata.io/pricing
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