Aiven free tier includes Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible), Apache Kafka, or OpenSearch — one free… Verified September 2026. Compare with 12 alternatives in Databases.

Aiven Free Tier 2026

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Subtypes in Databases: relational — tables, rows and joins under SQL — Postgres, MySQL, SQLite family. 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.

Limits, pricing history, and 12 alternatives. Verified September 2026. Last updated 2026-10-30.

Aiven's free tier offers Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible), Apache Kafka, or OpenSearch — one free service of each type per… We rate it stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Best for databases workloads — 12 alternatives available.

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Tier

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Free Tier Details

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.

We read that on 2026-10-30 from https://aiven.io/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Aiven as "aiven" and states "$5".

From aiven.io/pricing, read 2026-10-30:

Free $0 / month Get building 1 dedicated VM 1 CPU per VM 1 GB RAM per VM 1 GB total storage Cannot select a specific cloud or region No integrations or connection pooling

Aiven may power off a free service that has no usage in its first few hours, or that has no continuing activity. Aiven sends a notification before powering off an inactive service. The service can be powered back on. (From aiven.io/docs/platform/concepts/service-pricing, read 2026-10-18.)

When You'll Outgrow Aiven's Free Tier

At 1 GB storage, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 12 alternatives in Databases are each listed with the free tier they offer, so you can compare what they give you against what you have outgrown.

Pricing Change History (1 recorded)

reduced discovered 2026-10-06 · effective date unknown high impact

Retracted — this record was our error (2026-10-06). Retracted 2026-10-06: no change. aiven.io/pricing, read 2026-10-06, gives each service's Free plan as "1 dedicated VM, 1 CPU per VM, 1 GB RAM per VM, 1 GB total storage": the same 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM and 1 GB of disk per service that our listing states. Source ↗

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Alternatives in Databases

How Aiven compares against every one of the 12 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service	Free Tier	Stability
Aiven	Free	stable
Cloudflare D1	Free SQLite at the edge — 5M rows read/day, 100K rows written/day, 5 GB total storage. Resets daily at midnight UTC On the Free plan, once the account reaches its daily read or write limit, D1 refuses queries and returns errors until the limits reset at 00:00 UTC; upgrading to Workers Paid removes the limits. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-20.) On the Free plan a single D1 database can hold at most 500 MB, and an account can have at most 10 databases, within the 5 GB account total. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits, read 2026-10-20.) Cloudflare D1's free plan needs no credit card. (From cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/d1, read 2026-10-22.) D1 usage past Free limits requires the Workers Paid plan. That plan has a minimum charge of $5 per month per account. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) The Workers Paid plan includes 25 billion rows read, 50 million rows written, and 5 GB storage monthly. Rows read overage is $0.001 per million. Rows written overage is $1.00 per million. Storage overage is $0.75 per GB-mo. There are no egress charges. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) Time Travel restores a database from up to 30 days ago on Workers Paid and 7 days on Free. The paid plan has a 10 GB maximum database size and 1 TB storage per account. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)	stable
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.	stable
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.	stable
Xata	Free Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero. Self-hosted on Kubernetes — free forever.	stable
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.	stable
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…	stable
Nile	Free Postgres for multi-tenant apps — 1 GB storage, 50M serverless query tokens, 500 max connections. Unlimited databases and tenant DBs.	stable
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).	stable
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.	stable
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.	stable
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…	stable
CockroachDB	Trial Distributed SQL database. No free plan for new deployments since 2026-09-15, when CockroachDB moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing.	risky

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), PlanetScale (we have not classified this record), Cloudflare Vectorize (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in Databases, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

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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 list above is every one of the 12 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.

date: 2026-11-14
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tie_count: 11

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Aiven free?

Yes, Aiven offers a free tier: 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 ...

What is Aiven's free tier?

Aiven's free tier is called "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. Aiven may power off a free service that has no usage in its first few hours, or that has no continuing activity. Aiven sends a notification before powering off an inactive service. The service can be powered back on. (From https://aiven.io/docs/platform/concepts/service-pricing, read 2026-10-18.)

Is Aiven's free tier reliable?

Aiven's free tier is considered stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. See the pricing history below.

Is Aiven's free tier good for production?

Aiven's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible), Apache Kafka, or OpenSearch — one free service of each type per…, so it's a reasonable starting point. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.

What changed in Aiven's pricing?

The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.

What are the best free alternatives to Aiven?

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 12 free alternatives to Aiven in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 11 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

When will I outgrow Aiven's free tier?

At 1 GB storage, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.

What category is Aiven in?

Aiven is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 12 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.