Compare 42 free databases tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 1 is not a free offer. We could not confirm today's terms for 11 of them: on 5 the page we cite did not answer, and on 6 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for Supabase and more.
What this name holds: Hosted databases and the platforms sold around them — relational, document, key-value and vector.
2 other names here answer “where do I put the data and query it”, and each holds a different list: Headless CMS (15), Search (5).
We track 41 databases services with a free tier we hold as current and 4 without. This category has seen some movement — 35 pricing changes recorded across vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
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| Supabase | 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.
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2026-11-02 |
| Neon | Free | Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 1 GB of Postgres storage per project (20 GB total across all projects), 5 GB of public network transfer per project per month, 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). No credit card is required. The AI Gateway (one Neon credential for models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others) is available on every plan, including Free. It requires a card and a $5 minimum purchase of prepaid credits in the Neon Console. The Free plan otherwise remains unchanged. Model prices match each provider's list price with no markup.
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2026-10-28 |
| MongoDB Atlas | M0 Free | Free 512 MB shared cluster (M0), always free, available on AWS/Azure/GCP. Includes Atlas Vector Search for AI/RAG applications
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2026-11-06 |
| CockroachDB | 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. | 2026-10-24 / 2026-08-31 |
| Turso | Free | Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free. On 2026-10-02 Turso announced that Supabase is acquiring it. Turso says the service keeps running and that databases, APIs and workflows continue as they do today.
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2026-10-30 |
| Upstash | Free | Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (250MB data). Vector: 200M vectors × dimensions and 10K queries a day free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free
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2026-10-28 / 2026-10-04 |
| Firebase | Spark | Spark plan, no payment method needed: Auth (50K MAU), Firestore Standard edition (1 GiB stored, 50K reads/day, 20K writes/day, 20K deletes/day), Realtime Database (100 simultaneous connections, 1 GB stored, 10 GB/month downloaded), Hosting (10 GB storage, 360 MB/day transfer), and no-cost Analytics, Crashlytics and Cloud Messaging. Firestore Enterprise on Spark includes 1 GiB stored, 10 GiB/month network egress, 40K write units/day, 50K read units/day, 50K real-time update units/day. Cloud Functions and Cloud Storage need the Blaze plan.
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2026-10-26 / 2026-10-03 |
| Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) | 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 includedThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-30, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-30 / 2026-08-12 |
| Convex | Free | Reactive backend — 1M function calls/month, 0.5 GB database + vector storage, 1 GB file storage, real-time sync | 2026-11-01 |
| Appwrite Cloud | 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, 500K database reads and 250K writes a month. Limit of 2 projects.
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2026-11-02 / 2026-08-23 |
| Aiven | Free | Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible), Apache Kafka, or OpenSearch — one free service of each type per organization. PostgreSQL and MySQL: 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB disk; PostgreSQL has 20 connections and no connection pooling. Valkey: 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM. Apache Kafka: 250 KiB/s ingress and 250 KiB/s egress, up to 5 topics with two partitions each. OpenSearch: 4 GB RAM, 20 GB storage. No credit card, no time limit. Developer plan for PostgreSQL is $5 a month with 8 GB storage.
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2026-10-30 / 2026-09-13 |
| Xata | Free | Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero. Self-hosted on Kubernetes — free forever. The managed platform, Xata Cloud, is paid: from $0.012 an hour plus $0.28 per GB-month of storage, billed by the minute, with a 14-day free trial.
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2026-11-02 |
| Cloudflare D1 | Free | SQLite at the edge — 5M rows read/day, 100K rows written/day, 5 GB total storage. Resets daily at midnight UTC
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2026-10-26 |
| Nhost | 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. | 2026-11-03 |
| PocketBase | 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 dependenciesThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-30, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-30 / 2026-08-11 |
| 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, 1,000 list requests/day, and 1 GB stored data. All limits reset daily at 00:00 UTC. | 2026-10-25 / 2026-10-01 |
| Momento | Retired | Managed Valkey cache, cluster and pub/sub, formerly a serverless cache with a free tier. No free tier. gomomento.com/pricing, read 2026-09-05, prices every plan: Momento Cache Flex from $13 per GB-month, Momento Cache Cluster from $0.0105 per instance-hour, Pub/sub Topics from $1 per 1M operations, Valkey Router $0.01 per GB of data transfer. The only $0 on the page is the Starter Basic Support plan, which is a support level and not a product allowance. | 2026-11-08 |
| Nile | 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) | 2026-11-05 |
| DynamoDB Local | 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 patternsThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-10 / 2026-08-15 |
| Redis Cloud | Free | Managed Redis — 30 MB memory, single database, shared deployment. Best-effort SLA, community support | 2026-11-09 |
| Prisma Accelerate | Free | Global query cache and connection pool for Prisma ORM, retiring December 1, 2026. Every plan includes 60,000 cache operations a month, with no overage rate on Free. Also available: Prisma Postgres, which continues after that date, has a Free plan with 200,000 operations a month, 2 GB of storage, 50 databases and 10 pooled connections, with no credit card required.
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2026-11-06 |
| SurrealDB Cloud | Free | Multi-model cloud database — The 'Start' plan offers 1GB of storage free, forever, and a free compute instance with 0.25 vCPU and 1 GB memory ($0.000/hr). Further instances are available from $0.021/hr. | 2026-10-28 |
| Weaviate | 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)
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2026-10-26 |
| Zilliz Cloud | 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 | 2026-11-07 |
| LanceDB | Open Source | Embedded vector database — OSS: fully free, runs locally or in your cloud, no limits. LanceDB Cloud is closed to new accounts: its sign-up page says "Sign ups are currently disabled" (read 2026-10-14), and lancedb.com/pricing redirects to a contact form, so the one-time $100 Cloud credit is no longer offered. LanceDB Enterprise is sold through sales. | 2026-11-08 / 2026-10-14 |
| Upstash Vector | Free | Serverless vector database by Upstash. Free: 200M vectors × dimensions (about 130,000 vectors at the maximum 1,536 dimensions), 100 namespaces, 10K queries and updates a day, 1 GB of data | 2026-10-28 |
| Chroma | Open Source | Open-source AI-native embedding database (Apache 2.0). Chroma Cloud, its hosted service, is winding down: read-only from December 7, 2026, no reads from December 22, 2026. Until then, Chroma Cloud's Starter plan is $0 a month plus usage, with $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.
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2026-11-07 |
| Turbopuffer | Pay-as-you-go | Serverless vector database. No free tier: every plan has a monthly minimum, $16 on Launch and $256 on Scale, and usage above the minimum is billed. Turbopuffer cut the Launch minimum from $64 to $16 a month in June 2026. | 2026-10-25 / 2026-08-19 |
| 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 space | 2026-11-07 |
| 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 cluster per org. No credit card required | 2026-11-12 |
| Neo4j AuraDB | 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 requiredOur read on 2026-10-31 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-10-31 / 2026-08-15 |
| InfluxDB Cloud | Free | Time-series database — Cloud Serverless Free Plan: 5 MB of writes and 300 MB of query responses per 5 minutes, 2 buckets, 30-day data retention. New accounts start on the Free Plan. | 2026-10-24 / 2026-07-05 |
| Hasura | 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 | 2026-11-01 / 2026-08-22 |
| 8base.com | 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.When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-11-08, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-11-08 / 2026-07-15 |
| codehooks.io | 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. | 2026-11-12 |
| Couchbase Capella | 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 AIThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-12 / 2026-07-15 |
| 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: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. | 2026-10-29 |
| restdb.io | 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. | 2026-11-03 |
| SeaTable | Free | Flexible, Spreadsheet-like Database built by the Seafile team. Unlimited tables, 10,000 rows, 1-month versioning, up to 25 team members.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-12 / 2026-07-12 |
| skyvia.com | 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. | 2026-11-09 / 2026-07-14 |
| StackBy | 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 read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-10-08, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, and we have read it again since, on 2026-11-04, without confirming them, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-11-04 / 2026-07-16 |
| 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 infrastructure to manage
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2026-10-29 / 2026-08-17 |
| Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL | Free Tier | Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless on AWS Free Tier — managed PostgreSQL-compatible database with automatic scaling. Free plan: up to 4 ACUs and 1 GiB of storage per cluster, paid from AWS credits ($100 at sign-up, up to $100 more). The Free plan closes after 6 months or when the credits run out | 2026-10-30 |
| PlanetScale | Retired | Managed MySQL, Postgres and Vitess, formerly a serverless MySQL with a free Hobby plan. No free tier. planetscale.com/pricing, read 2026-09-19, prices every plan: Postgres EBS non-HA PS-5 from $5/month, Neki PS-10 arm64 $30/month, Vitess PS-10 $39/month, Metal from $50/month. | 2026-11-05 |
| Cloudflare Vectorize | Free | Vectorize is Cloudflare's vector database for Workers. Workers Free includes 30 million queried vector dimensions per month and 5 million stored vector dimensions (about 6,500 vectors of 768 dimensions, or about 3,250 vectors of 1,536 dimensions). It allows 100 indexes. Workers Paid includes 50 million queried dimensions per month and 10 million stored dimensions. Overage is $0.01 per million queried dimensions and $0.05 per 100 million stored dimensions. CPU, memory and active index hours are not billed. Each vector can have up to 1536 dimensions. Each index can hold up to 20 million vectors.
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2026-11-03 |