Every free relational databases tier that clears our bar in 2026: 13 offers meet the criteria and 1 offer is demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: tables, rows and joins under SQL — Postgres, MySQL, SQLite family. We could not confirm today's terms for 5 of them, and on all 5 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free Relational Databases

Every free relational databases tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-30. Our membership test: tables, rows and joins under SQL — Postgres, MySQL, SQLite family.

13 offers meet our criteria on this page. 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. 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. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. 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 →
1
Turso stable
Free

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

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

2
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.

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

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 ↗

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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 ↗
4
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

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

5
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.

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

6
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

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

7
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)

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

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.

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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
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.

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

10
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.

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

11
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

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

12
Aiven stable
Free

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

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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

13
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.

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it 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 ↗

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.

−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 ↗

Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it relational. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.cockroachlabs.com/, where it says: “CockroachDB is a cloud-agnostic, AI-native, PostgreSQL-compatible data platform built for modern applications.”. How we use this

  • −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.
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.
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Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
Turso Free Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free stable 2026-09-18
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free relational 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 13 free relational 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 relational databases tiers have held their terms?

13 offers meet our criteria on this page. 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. 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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