Every free databases tier that clears our bar in 2026: 35 offers meet the criteria and 7 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 17 of them: on 5 the page we cite did not answer, and on 12 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free Databases Tools

Every free databases tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-30.

The offers here are not all alternatives to one another — they carry 8 different labelled functions. They are listed under the function each is labelled with. An offer labelled with more than one is listed under each, with the words we read for that label; an offer we have not labelled is listed too, at the end. 35 offers meet our criteria here. Of those, 20 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 6 a recorded narrowing, 5 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 4. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. The sections carrying a labelled function, and the offers inside every section, are listed in an order that rotates daily; a section holding offers we have not labelled is pinned last. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 476 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 45 databases offers →

Document

Labelled document — schemaless JSON/BSON documents as the stored unit. 5 offers meet our criteria in this group. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, and 2 a recorded narrowing.

1
filess.io stable
Free

filess.io is a platform where you can create two databases with up to 10 MB per database of the following DBMS for free: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.

Labelled document. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://filess.io, where it says: “Ship your full stack apps in seconds. Web Hosting, Managed Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB & SQL Server) and Secure Tunnels.”. How we use this

2
Free

Multi-model cloud database — 1 GB storage, 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB memory free. Supports SQL-like queries, graph relations, document storage, real-time subscriptions. Includes team collaboration and RBAC Note — discovered 2026-04-12: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗

Labelled document. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://surrealdb.com/, where it says: “SurrealDB is a database and an agent memory layer. Documents, graphs, vectors, and SQL in one engine - and context for your AI agents wherever your data lives.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗
3
Firebase stable
Spark

Spark plan, no payment method needed: Auth (50K MAU), Firestore (1 GiB stored, 50K reads/day, 20K writes/day, 20K deletes/day), Hosting (10 GB storage, 360 MB/day transfer), and no-cost Analytics, Crashlytics and Cloud Messaging. Cloud Functions and Cloud Storage need the Blaze plan.

Labelled document. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore, where it says: “Use the flexible, scalable NoSQL cloud database from Google Cloud to store and sync data for client and server-side development.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-02-03 — limits reduced: Cloud Storage for Firebase now requires the pay-as-you-go Blaze plan, in effect from February 3, 2026. Projects on the no-cost Spark plan lose access to all Cloud Storage buckets, including default buckets; console access redirects to an upgrade page and API calls return 402 or 403. Provisioning a new default bucket also requires Blaze. Source ↗
4
restdb.io stable
Free

a fast and straightforward NoSQL cloud database service. With restdb.io you get schema, relations, automatic REST API (with MongoDB-like queries), and an efficient multi-user admin UI for working with data. The free plan allows 3 users, 2500 records, and 1 API request per second. The page we cite for restdb.io states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

Labelled document. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://restdb.io/, where it says: “Simple online NoSQL database backend with automatic APIs and low code JavaScript hooks”. How we use this

5
MongoDB Atlas stable
M0 Free

Free 512 MB shared cluster (M0), always free, available on AWS/Azure/GCP. Includes Atlas Vector Search for AI/RAG applications

Labelled document. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.mongodb.com/products/platform/atlas-database, where it says: “Find out how the document model eliminates operational complexity while ensuring unmatched resilience, scalability, and enterprise-grade security through the Atlas cloud database.”. How we use this

Timeseries

Labelled timeseries — rows are time-indexed measurements, retention is a first-class setting. 1 offer meets our criteria in this group. It carries no recorded change to the terms we publish.

1
Free

Time-series database — free tier: 5 MB writes per 5 minutes, up to 10,000 data series, 30-day data retention. Auto-provisioned for new accounts. Ideal for IoT and monitoring workloads

Labelled timeseries. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.influxdata.com/influxdb-pricing/, where it says: “The time series database built to scale with you”. How we use this

Vector

Labelled vector — stores embeddings and answers similarity queries as its primary access path. 7 offers meet our criteria in this group. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 2 a recorded narrowing, 2 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 1.

1
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 invocations, and Realtime with 200 concurrent connections and 2 million messages a month. Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity, with a limit of 2 active projects. Pro starts at $25 a month for the first project and includes $10 a month of compute credits, enough for one Micro instance. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://supabase.com/, where it says: “Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-02-01 — limits reduced: Project pause policy tightened — inactive projects now pause after 1 week Source ↗
2
Free

Serverless vector database by Upstash — Free: $0 - 200M vectors, 1,536 dimensions, 100 namespaces, 10K daily query limit, 1 GB max total data.

Labelled vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://upstash.com/, where it says: “Serverless Redis, Vector and Search databases with low latency and pay-as-you-go pricing.”. How we use this

3
Free

Multi-model cloud database — 1 GB storage, 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB memory free. Supports SQL-like queries, graph relations, document storage, real-time subscriptions. Includes team collaboration and RBAC Note — discovered 2026-04-12: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗

Labelled vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://surrealdb.com/, where it says: “SurrealDB is a database and an agent memory layer. Documents, graphs, vectors, and SQL in one engine - and context for your AI agents wherever your data lives.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗
4
Weaviate stable
Open Source

Open-source vector database — self-hosted free. Cloud: permanent free tier with 1 cluster, 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection, up to 3 tenants, 2,000 embedding requests/day and 1,000 Query Agent requests/month. Paid cloud from $45/mo (Flex)

Labelled vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://weaviate.io/pricing, where it says: “Compare pricing options for our different levels of vector database services and solutions.”. How we use this

5
Upstash stable
Free

Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free

Labelled vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://upstash.com/, where it says: “Serverless Redis, Vector and Search databases with low latency and pay-as-you-go pricing.”. How we use this

6
Free

Managed Milvus vector database — free tier: 5 GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/month, up to 5 collections. Milvus open-source also free to self-host with no limits Best for unlimited usage needs. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-22, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and refusing a change is not a confirmation of the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Labelled vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://zilliz.com/, where it says: “Zilliz offers a fully managed Vector Lakebase powered by Milvus, unifying real-time vector search, lake-scale discovery, and AI data operations.”. How we use this

7
Chroma stable
Open Source

Open-source AI-native embedding database — Starter plan per month + $5 in free credits. Write per GiB written $2.50, Storage per GiB per month $0.33, Query per TiB queried $0.0075, Network per GiB returned $0.09. Starter plan includes 10 databases and 10 team members.

Labelled vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trychroma.com/, where it says: “Fast, serverless, and scalable infrastructure supporting vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search.”. How we use this

Graph

Labelled graph — nodes and edges are the primary model, with a traversal query language. 2 offers meet our criteria in this group. Of those, 1 carries no recorded change to the terms we publish, and 1 a recorded narrowing.

1
Neo4j AuraDB stable
Free

Graph database cloud service — free tier: single database, up to 200,000 nodes and 400,000 relationships. Full Cypher query language support. No credit card required

Labelled graph. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://neo4j.com/, where it says: “Connect data as it's stored with Neo4j. Perform powerful, complex queries at scale and speed with our graph data platform.”. How we use this

2
Free

Multi-model cloud database — 1 GB storage, 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB memory free. Supports SQL-like queries, graph relations, document storage, real-time subscriptions. Includes team collaboration and RBAC Note — discovered 2026-04-12: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗

Labelled graph. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://surrealdb.com/, where it says: “SurrealDB is a database and an agent memory layer. Documents, graphs, vectors, and SQL in one engine - and context for your AI agents wherever your data lives.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗

Relational

Labelled relational — tables, rows and joins under SQL — Postgres, MySQL, SQLite family. 13 offers meet our criteria in this group. Of those, 8 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 3 a recorded narrowing, 1 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 1.

1
Neon stable
Free

Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 0.5 GB storage per project, 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 Functions (10 active capacity-hours, 400 waiting capacity-hours, 1M invocations)

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://neon.com/, where it says: “The backend for apps and agents. Build with Lakebase Postgres, Auth, Functions, Storage, and an AI Gateway: instant, branchable, serverless.”. How we use this

2
Turso stable
Free

Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://turso.tech/, where it says: “A full SQLite drop-in replacement, built for the agentic future.”. How we use this

3
filess.io stable
Free

filess.io is a platform where you can create two databases with up to 10 MB per database of the following DBMS for free: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://filess.io, where it says: “Ship your full stack apps in seconds. Web Hosting, Managed Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB & SQL Server) and Secure Tunnels.”. How we use this

4
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 invocations, and Realtime with 200 concurrent connections and 2 million messages a month. Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity, with a limit of 2 active projects. Pro starts at $25 a month for the first project and includes $10 a month of compute credits, enough for one Micro instance. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://supabase.com/, where it says: “Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-02-01 — limits reduced: Project pause policy tightened — inactive projects now pause after 1 week Source ↗
5
Cloudflare D1 stable
Free

SQLite at the edge — 5M rows read/day, 100K rows written/day, 5 GB total storage. Resets daily at midnight UTC

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/, where it says: “Build serverless SQL databases on Cloudflare”. How we use this

6
Free

Multi-model cloud database — 1 GB storage, 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB memory free. Supports SQL-like queries, graph relations, document storage, real-time subscriptions. Includes team collaboration and RBAC Note — discovered 2026-04-12: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://surrealdb.com/, where it says: “SurrealDB is a database and an agent memory layer. Documents, graphs, vectors, and SQL in one engine - and context for your AI agents wherever your data lives.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗
7
Nhost stable
Free

Open-source backend with Postgres and Hasura GraphQL, plus Auth, Storage and Functions. The Starter plan is $0 a month: 1 GB database, 1 GB storage and 5 GB egress, with functions, realtime APIs and unlimited users. It is limited to 1 project, and the project is paused after 1 week of inactivity. Pro starts at $25 a month with $15 of compute credits, a 10 GB database, 50 GB storage and 50 GB egress. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://nhost.io/, where it says: “Nhost is a managed backend platform with Postgres, GraphQL, Auth, Storage, and serverless Functions.”. How we use this

8
Koyeb stable
Free (Database Only)

Free Postgres database (0.25 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB storage, 5 hr/month runtime). No free compute tier — Pro plan starts at $29/month with $10 included compute.

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.koyeb.com/pricing, where it says: “Serverless Postgres — Fully managed, highly available, and scalable serverless Postgres databases billed by the second.”. How we use this

9
CrateDB stable
Free (CRFREE)

Distributed SQL database for time-series and IoT — free cloud tier (CRFREE): 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, 8 GB storage. One free cluster per org. No credit card required

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://cratedb.com/, where it says: “CrateDB is the operational analytics database for fast-moving data. Ingest millions of events per second and query billions of records in milliseconds. Standard SQL, no pre-aggregation, no schema redesign.”. How we use this

10
Free

Postgres for multi-tenant apps — 1 GB storage, 50M serverless query tokens, 500 max connections. Unlimited databases and tenant DBs. Always-on (no cold starts) Best for unlimited usage needs. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-21, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and refusing a change is not a confirmation of the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.thenile.dev/, where it says: “Postgres re-engineered for multi-tenant apps.”. How we use this

11
Aiven stable
Free

Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Valkey (Redis-compatible) — 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB disk per service. No time limit

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://aiven.io/postgresql, where it says: “Aiven for PostgreSQL - Managed Postgres database service with Postgres extensions, database forking, connection pooling.”. How we use this

12
Xata stable
Free

Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero. Self-hosted on Kubernetes — free forever. Managed platform is now paid (compute + storage billed hourly); 14-day free trial with $100 credit on the commercial tier.

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://xata.io/, where it says: “Postgres platform with instant branching and scale-to-zero compute.”. How we use this

13
Free Tier

Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless on AWS Free Tier — managed PostgreSQL-compatible database with automatic scaling. Free plan: up to 4 ACUs per cluster, 1 GB storage. New accounts also get $100–200 in AWS credits for 12 months

Labelled relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/, where it says: “Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.”. How we use this

Backend Platform

Labelled backend_platform — bundles a database with auth, functions or storage as one product. 8 offers meet our criteria in this group. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, and 5 a recorded narrowing.

1
Convex stable
Free

Reactive backend — 1M function calls/month, 0.5 GB database + vector storage, 1 GB file storage, real-time sync

Labelled backend_platform. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.convex.dev/, where it says: “Convex is the reactive backend platform that keeps up with you and your agents.”. How we use this

2
Neon stable
Free

Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 0.5 GB storage per project, 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 Functions (10 active capacity-hours, 400 waiting capacity-hours, 1M invocations)

Labelled backend_platform. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://neon.com/, where it says: “The backend for apps and agents. Build with Lakebase Postgres, Auth, Functions, Storage, and an AI Gateway: instant, branchable, serverless.”. How we use this

3
Free

Open-source BaaS — 75K MAU, 2 GB storage, 750K function executions/month, 5 GB bandwidth, 1 database, 1 bucket and 2 functions per project. Limit of 2 projects. Projects pause after 1 week of inactivity and are deleted after 90 days paused Note — 2026-06-29: Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source ↗

Labelled backend_platform. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://appwrite.io/docs, where it says: “Ship faster with Appwrite. Quick starts and deep guides for web and mobile: Authentication, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and hosting.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-06-29 — limits reduced: Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source ↗
  • effective 2026-04-30 — limits reduced: Appwrite began enforcing Realtime limits on 2026-04-30, with the Free plan at 2 million messages a month, down from the 3 million its pricing page had listed, and a new 256 KB maximum message size. It announced the enforcement on 2026-03-23. Source ↗
  • effective 2026-02-20 — limits reduced: Appwrite began pausing Free projects after 7 consecutive days with no development activity. Its pricing page had said Free projects were "Never paused" until January 2026, and users reported pauses from 2026-03-09. Source ↗
  • effective 2026-01-08 — limits reduced: Appwrite cut its Free plan from five functions per project to two. Projects that already had more keep them, but cannot create new functions until they are under the limit. Source ↗
4
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 invocations, and Realtime with 200 concurrent connections and 2 million messages a month. Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity, with a limit of 2 active projects. Pro starts at $25 a month for the first project and includes $10 a month of compute credits, enough for one Micro instance. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled backend_platform. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://supabase.com/, where it says: “Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-02-01 — limits reduced: Project pause policy tightened — inactive projects now pause after 1 week Source ↗
5
Nhost stable
Free

Open-source backend with Postgres and Hasura GraphQL, plus Auth, Storage and Functions. The Starter plan is $0 a month: 1 GB database, 1 GB storage and 5 GB egress, with functions, realtime APIs and unlimited users. It is limited to 1 project, and the project is paused after 1 week of inactivity. Pro starts at $25 a month with $15 of compute credits, a 10 GB database, 50 GB storage and 50 GB egress. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled backend_platform. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://nhost.io/, where it says: “Nhost is a managed backend platform with Postgres, GraphQL, Auth, Storage, and serverless Functions.”. How we use this

6
Free

The free plan includes 1 Developer, API/Functions: 1/sec, 500/day, 1 Worker per queue, Worker timeout 30s, 150 MB Database Storage, 1 GB File Storage, 1 Space Chat and Email Support. No Credit Card Required. Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The free tier now has significantly reduced API call limits (1/sec, 500/day). Previously 60/minute. Source ↗

Labelled backend_platform. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://codehooks.io/docs, where it says: “Codehooks.io is the complete backend for webhooks and automations. Receive, store, process, and deliver webhooks with a built-in database, queues, cron, and retries behind every endpoint.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: The free tier now has significantly reduced API call limits (1/sec, 500/day). Previously 60/minute. Source ↗
  • discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: Storage reduced from 5GB to 150MB database + 1GB file storage. Developer seats reduced from 2 to 1. Source ↗
7
8base.com stable
Free

8base is a full-stack low-code development platform built for JavaScript developers built on top of MySQL and GraphQL and serverless backend-as-a-service. It allows you to start building web applications quickly using a UI app builder and scale quickly, The Free tier includes rows: 2,500, Storage: 500, Serverless computing: 1Gb/h, and client app users: 5.

Labelled backend_platform. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.8base.com/product, where it says: “Serverless graphql backend-as-a-service”. How we use this

8
Firebase stable
Spark

Spark plan, no payment method needed: Auth (50K MAU), Firestore (1 GiB stored, 50K reads/day, 20K writes/day, 20K deletes/day), Hosting (10 GB storage, 360 MB/day transfer), and no-cost Analytics, Crashlytics and Cloud Messaging. Cloud Functions and Cloud Storage need the Blaze plan.

Labelled backend_platform. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore, where it says: “Use the flexible, scalable NoSQL cloud database from Google Cloud to store and sync data for client and server-side development.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-02-03 — limits reduced: Cloud Storage for Firebase now requires the pay-as-you-go Blaze plan, in effect from February 3, 2026. Projects on the no-cost Spark plan lose access to all Cloud Storage buckets, including default buckets; console access redirects to an upgrade page and API calls return 402 or 403. Provisioning a new default bucket also requires Blaze. Source ↗

Kv Cache

Labelled kv_cache — key to value, no query language over the value. 3 offers meet our criteria in this group. All of them carry no recorded change to the terms we publish.

1
Redis Cloud stable
Free

Managed Redis — 30 MB memory, single database, shared deployment. Best-effort SLA, community support

Labelled kv_cache. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://redis.io/about/, where it says: “Learn about Redis, the fast in-memory database for caching, vector search, and NoSQL.”. How we use this

2
Cloudflare KV stable
Free

Key-value store at the edge — Free plan includes 100,000 keys read/day, 1,000 keys written/day, 1,000 keys deleted/day, 1,000 list requests/day, and 1 GB stored data. All limits reset daily at 00:00 UTC.

Labelled kv_cache. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/, where it says: “Workers KV is a global, low-latency, key-value data store for building dynamic and performant APIs and websites.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: The free tier still exists. The limits are daily instead of monthly. Previously limit remains at 1 GB. Source ↗
3
Upstash stable
Free

Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free

Labelled kv_cache. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://upstash.com/, where it says: “Serverless Redis, Vector and Search databases with low latency and pay-as-you-go pricing.”. How we use this

Analytical

Labelled analytical — columnar warehouse for aggregate scans, not row-level transactions. 2 offers meet our criteria in this group. All of them carry no recorded change to the terms we publish.

1
Always Free

Always Free: 1 TiB queries/month, 10 GiB storage. Serverless data warehouse with SQL, ML, and BI built in. No infrastructure to manage

Labelled analytical. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing, where it says: “BigQuery is a serverless data analytics platform.”. How we use this

2
CrateDB stable
Free (CRFREE)

Distributed SQL database for time-series and IoT — free cloud tier (CRFREE): 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, 8 GB storage. One free cluster per org. No credit card required

Labelled analytical. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://cratedb.com/, where it says: “CrateDB is the operational analytics database for fast-moving data. Ingest millions of events per second and query billions of records in milliseconds. Standard SQL, no pre-aggregation, no schema redesign.”. How we use this

None of this category's subtypes applies

We have read these offers against this category's subtypes and none of them applies. They are listed in full: the category is what they were filed under, and this states what our labels do not cover rather than a finding about the products. 2 offers meet our criteria in this group. We publish no durability signal for any of them.

1
Free

One tool that combines spreadsheets' flexibility, databases' power, and built-in integrations with your favorite business apps. The free plan includes 5 editors plus 50 read-only guests, 20 stacks, and a 2GB attachment per stack. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-20, we reached a domain root that states nothing about the terms we hold, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

2
Free

Azure Databricks Lakeflow Connect — managed data ingestion. Free tier: 100 DBUs/day per workspace (~100M records/day). Supports 40+ data sources including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Salesforce, Sharepoint, Google Sheets. Serverless compute included. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-16, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Not read against this category's subtypes yet

These offers reach this page through their category and we have not read them against its subtypes yet. They are listed in full; what is missing is our reading, not their eligibility. 3 offers meet our criteria in this group. Of those, 1 carries no recorded change to the terms we publish, and 2 a recorded widening.

1
Gel stable
Free

Graph-relational database (formerly EdgeDB) — Free tier: 1/4 compute unit ( 1/2 GiB RAM, 1/16 vCPU ), Up to 1GB of disk space

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: RAM and vCPU limits have changed. Source ↗
2
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-09-05, prisma.io/pricing reads: Free tier includes 1M requests / month, 360 GB-hours memory / month, 4 active vCPU-hours / month, 10 GB outbound bandwidth / month and 200k operations / month for Prisma Postgres with 500 MB storage and 50 databases. We are not publishing our stored Prisma Accelerate terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-05, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓

3
Hasura stable
Cloud Free

Instant GraphQL API engine over any database — Includes: Unlimited models, at any scale 1 supergraph developer Observability: 15-minute retention API GraphQL API (filtering, pagination, sorting, aggregations) Relay API Nested filtering Nested aggregations Nested pagination Nested sorting API versioning Field & entity level authorization Infrastructure API requests/month - No limit Concurrent API users - No limit Autoscaling Zero cold-start Global Edge network Intelligent geo routing DDoS protection Connectors Database connectors Code connectors API connectors DIY: build & connect your own connector Optional hosting for third-party & code connectors - $0.075/vCPU-hour, $0.0075/GiB-hour Console Supergraph explorer & registry Query plan & trace viewer CI/CD Breaking change detection Immutable builds & build URLs Local development Self-hosting with v3 graphql-engine Collaboration Schema registry & changelog Best for unlimited usage needs.

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
LanceDB stable
Open Source

Embedded vector database — OSS: fully free, runs locally or in your cloud, no limits. Cloud: $100 in one-time free credits for serverless managed offering. Usage-based pricing after credits Best for open source projects and unlimited usage needs.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 3 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-26 — The provided text is primarily focused on blog posts, event announcements, and privacy settings. It does not contain any explicit pricing information or details about free tiers or open-source offerings for LanceDB. Therefore, it's impossible to verify the accuracy of the stored deal information.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
skyvia.com stable
Free

Cloud Data Platform with free tiers across products: 10K records/month for data integration, 1 GB backup storage, 5 queries/day for Query product. Multiple cloud connectors included. Best for open source projects.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 3 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-26 — The pricing page does not explicitly state the free tier limits (10K records/month for data integration, 1 GB backup storage, 5 queries/day for Query product). It mentions Data Integration, Backup, Query, and Automation as features, but doesn't detail the free tier limitations. It broadly mentions a 'free' option to 'get started' but doesn't provide specifics.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Official AWS DynamoDB emulator for local development and testing. Full DynamoDB API compatibility. Runs as downloadable JAR or Docker container. No AWS account needed, no network latency, no usage charges. Supports streams, transactions, TTL, and all query patterns. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −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. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

deploy a forever free tier fully managed database cluster with 1 node and 8GB storage, built for developers to create the next generation of applications across IoT to AI Best for open source projects. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −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. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Flexible, Spreadsheet-like Database built by the Seafile team. Unlimited tables, 10,000 rows, 1-month versioning, up to 25 team members. Best for unlimited usage needs. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −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. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Open-source backend in a single Go binary — SQLite database, real-time subscriptions, built-in auth (email, OAuth2), file storage (S3-compatible), REST API. Completely free and self-hosted, no vendor lock-in. Single executable, no dependencies. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-16, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-16, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−5
Trial

Distributed SQL database. No free plan for new deployments since 2026-09-15, when CockroachDB moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing. New Cloud organizations get a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit; Standard is $0.092 per vCPU-hour. Clusters created before 2026-09-15 stay on their existing plans during their current term. Note — 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 ↗

  • −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 on our ranked list

3 of the 45 offers matching this query are not on our ranked list — 1 is not a free offer, 2 have ended. Here is how that order is derived.

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
2026-09-30
query_key
best-of:Databases
seed
edbcb9b3d4b28da95279c9bd1d865408cdc9e7ccb055fa4ff198adae9b586aad
tie_count
35

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
Gel Free Graph-relational database (formerly EdgeDB) — Free tier: 1/4 compute unit ( 1/2 GiB RAM, 1/16 vCPU ), Up to 1GB of disk ... stable 2026-09-22
Convex Free Reactive backend — 1M function calls/month, 0.5 GB database + vector storage, 1 GB file storage, real-time sync stable 2026-09-19
Neon Free Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 0.5 GB storage per project, up t... watch
effective 2026-03-13
2026-09-13
Turso Free Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free stable 2026-09-18
Appwrite Cloud Free Open-source BaaS — 75K MAU, 2 GB storage, 750K function executions/month, 5 GB bandwidth, 1 database, 1 bucket and 2 fun...
read found the page different · 2026-09-21
volatile
effective 2026-06-29
2026-09-21 / 2026-08-23
InfluxDB Cloud Free Time-series database — free tier: 5 MB writes per 5 minutes, up to 10,000 data series, 30-day data retention. Auto-provi...
read found the page different · 2026-09-12
stable 2026-09-12 / 2026-07-05
filess.io Free filess.io is a platform where you can create two databases with up to 10 MB per database of the following DBMS for free:... stable 2026-09-11
Redis Cloud Free Managed Redis — 30 MB memory, single database, shared deployment. Best-effort SLA, community support stable 2026-09-25
Supabase Free Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions. The Free plan is $0: unlimited API ...
read found the page different · 2026-09-19
watch
effective 2026-02-01
2026-09-19 / 2026-08-17
Cloudflare D1 Free SQLite at the edge — 5M rows read/day, 100K rows written/day, 5 GB total storage. Resets daily at midnight UTC stable 2026-09-13
StackBy Free One tool that combines spreadsheets' flexibility, databases' power, and built-in integrations with your favorite busines... not published
change not established · 2026-09-20
2026-09-20 / 2026-07-16
Neo4j AuraDB Free Graph database cloud service — free tier: single database, up to 200,000 nodes and 400,000 relationships. Full Cypher qu...
read found the page different · 2026-09-17
stable 2026-09-17 / 2026-08-15
Upstash Vector Free Serverless vector database by Upstash — Free: $0 - 200M vectors, 1,536 dimensions, 100 namespaces, 10K daily query limit...
read found the page different · 2026-09-17
improving
discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown
2026-09-17 / 2026-08-13
Prisma Accelerate Free As of 2026-09-05, prisma.io/pricing reads: Free tier includes 1M requests / month, 360 GB-hours memory / month, 4 active vCPU-hours… Our stored Prisma Accelerate terms are superseded and withheld. improving
discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknown
2026-09-21 / 2026-08-22
Cloudflare KV Free Key-value store at the edge — Free plan includes 100,000 keys read/day, 1,000 keys written/day, 1,000 keys deleted/day, ...
read found the page different · 2026-09-17
stable 2026-09-17 / 2026-08-13
SurrealDB Cloud Free Multi-model cloud database — 1 GB storage, 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB memory free. Supports SQL-like queries, graph relations, do... watch
discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown
2026-09-10 / 2026-09-08
Nhost Free Open-source backend with Postgres and Hasura GraphQL, plus Auth, Storage and Functions. The Starter plan is $0 a month: ...
read found the page different · 2026-09-24
stable 2026-09-24 / 2026-08-25
Koyeb Free (Database Only) Free Postgres database (0.25 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB storage, 5 hr/month runtime). No free compute tier — Pro plan starts a...
read found the page different · 2026-09-16
stable 2026-09-16 / 2026-08-13
Google Cloud BigQuery Always Free Always Free: 1 TiB queries/month, 10 GiB storage. Serverless data warehouse with SQL, ML, and BI built in. No infrastruc... stable 2026-09-20 / 2026-08-17
Weaviate Open Source Open-source vector database — self-hosted free. Cloud: permanent free tier with 1 cluster, 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory,... improving
effective 2026-06-17
2026-09-10 / 2026-09-08
codehooks.io Free The free plan includes 1 Developer, API/Functions: 1/sec, 500/day, 1 Worker per queue, Worker timeout 30s, 150 MB Databa... volatile
discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown
2026-09-28
8base.com Free 8base is a full-stack low-code development platform built for JavaScript developers built on top of MySQL and GraphQL an... stable 2026-07-15
Hasura Cloud Free Instant GraphQL API engine over any database — Includes: Unlimited models, at any scale 1 supergraph developer Observabi... improving
discovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknown
2026-09-19 / 2026-08-22
CrateDB Free (CRFREE) Distributed SQL database for time-series and IoT — free cloud tier (CRFREE): 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, 8 GB storage. One free c... stable 2026-09-13
Nile Free Postgres for multi-tenant apps — 1 GB storage, 50M serverless query tokens, 500 max connections. Unlimited databases and... not published
no difference measured · 2026-09-21
2026-09-21 / 2026-08-23
Aiven Free Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Valkey (Redis-compatible) — 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB disk per service. No time limit stable 2026-09-13
Upstash Free Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free stable 2026-09-21
Zilliz Cloud Free Managed Milvus vector database — free tier: 5 GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/month, up to 5 collections. Milvus o... not published
no difference measured · 2026-09-22
2026-09-22 / 2026-09-06
Xata Free Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero. Self-hosted on Kubernetes — f... stable 2026-09-21 / 2026-08-22
Firebase Spark Spark plan, no payment method needed: Auth (50K MAU), Firestore (1 GiB stored, 50K reads/day, 20K writes/day, 20K delete... watch
effective 2026-03-19
2026-09-22 / 2026-08-25
restdb.io Free a fast and straightforward NoSQL cloud database service. With restdb.io you get schema, relations, automatic REST API (w... not confirmed · page states a free price · 2026-09-18 stable 2026-09-18
Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) Free Azure Databricks Lakeflow Connect — managed data ingestion. Free tier: 100 DBUs/day per workspace (~100M records/day). S... not published
page states no amount · 2026-09-16
2026-09-16 / 2026-08-12
MongoDB Atlas M0 Free Free 512 MB shared cluster (M0), always free, available on AWS/Azure/GCP. Includes Atlas Vector Search for AI/RAG applic... stable 2026-09-22
Chroma Open Source Open-source AI-native embedding database — Starter plan per month + $5 in free credits. Write per GiB written $2.50, Sto... stable 2026-09-22
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Free Tier Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless on AWS Free Tier — managed PostgreSQL-compatible database with automatic scaling. Free plan... improving
effective 2026-03-25
2026-09-20

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free databases tool in 2026?

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 35 free databases offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free databases tiers have held their terms?

35 offers meet our criteria here. Of those, 20 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 6 a recorded narrowing, 5 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 4. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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