Databases Pricing Trends

The page offers a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit for new Cloud organizations, and then moves to paid plans like 'Standard' and 'Mission Critical'. Source ↗

The free tier has changed. The current pricing page shows a Starter plan with $5 in free credits and usage-based pricing for writes, storage, and queries. Source ↗

The free tier now pauses projects after 1 week of inactivity. Source ↗

RAM and vCPU limits have changed. Source ↗

The free tier now offers 200,000 operations/month for Prisma Postgres, not 100,000 operations/month. The free tier also includes 1M requests/month for Prisma Compute, 360 GB-hours memory, 4 active vCPU-hours, and 10 GB outbound bandwidth. Source ↗

The free tier now has a limit of 2 projects, and the documentation details many more limits than were originally stated (e.g., API bandwidth, executions, storage, databases, buckets, functions, concurrent connections, messages, etc.). Source ↗

Momento Cache Flex starts at $13 per GB-month. Pub/sub Topics are priced at $1 per 1M operations. Data transfer is $0.01 per GB for Valkey Router and $0.05/GiB for ingress/egress. Source ↗

The free tier now has a 1 week inactivity pause, and compute is now a separate cost with a $10/month credit on paid plans. The free tier also has a spend cap. Source ↗

The vendor now has a $16/month minimum usage requirement for the 'scale' tier, effectively removing the truly pay-as-you-go option. Source ↗

The free tier still exists. The limits are daily instead of monthly. Previously limit remains at 1 GB. Source ↗

The free tier now has a maximum vector capacity of 200 Million vectors, up from 10K. Source ↗

The free tier now has specific limits: 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. The cloud offering is now structured into 'Free', 'Flex', and 'Premium' tiers. Source ↗

The free tier now has significantly reduced API call limits (1/sec, 500/day). Previously 60/minute. Source ↗

The deal now has specific eligibility criteria (less than $1.5M in revenue and funding, new to ScaleGrid). The discount is now tiered: 50% off for 12 months on BYOC plans (medium or larger) and 25% off dedicated hosting (medium or larger). Small plans get 50% off BYOC and 25% off dedicated for 3 months. Previously 'up to $50,000 for a year with 50% off'. 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 ↗

Hasura DDN Free plan replaced the legacy Hasura Cloud free tier (60 req/min, 1 GB passthrough). Free tier now offers unlimited API requests, unlimited concurrent users, and unlimited models at any scale. Restrictions: 1 supergraph developer and 15-minute observability retention. Source ↗

Xata Lite returned HTTP 410 Gone. Service has been discontinued. Source ↗

Free tier operations increased from 60,000 to 100,000/month. Max response size changed from 5 MB to unlimited. Source ↗

Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗

Storage reduced from 5GB to 150MB database + 1GB file storage. Developer seats reduced from 2 to 1. Source ↗

Free tier row limit increased from 2,000 to 10,000 Source ↗

Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless added to AWS Free Tier — managed PostgreSQL-compatible database now available at no cost with up to 4 ACUs per cluster and 1 GB storage. Part of AWS Free Plan (6 months + credits) Source ↗

Firebase Studio (formerly Project IDX) shut down March 19, 2026. Cloud IDE and AI code generation features discontinued. Existing projects accessible until March 2027 for migration Source ↗

Project pause policy tightened — inactive projects now pause after 1 week Source ↗

Moved to fully usage-based pricing model post-Databricks acquisition — free tier storage now per-project, projects increased 10→100, branches capped at 10 per project, Neon Auth added Source ↗

Fauna shut down entirely on May 30, 2025. The serverless document database ceased all operations. Over 80,000 development teams affected Source ↗

PlanetScale removed free Hobby plan entirely. All databases on free tier deleted after 30-day grace period. Minimum plan now Scaler at $39/month Source ↗

Redis switched from BSD license to dual SSPL/RSALv2 license, effectively ending open-source status. Triggered creation of Valkey fork by Linux Foundation. Redis Cloud pricing unchanged but community trust impacted Source ↗