Appwrite Cloud free tier includes Open-source BaaS — 75K MAU, 2 GB storage, 750K function executions/month, 5 GB bandwidth… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 8 alternatives in Databases.
Why caution:effective 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 ↗Full history ↓
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Limits, pricing history, and 8 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-11-02.
Appwrite Cloud's free tier offers Open-source BaaS — 75K MAU, 2 GB storage, 750K function executions/month, 5 GB bandwidth, 1 database, 1 bucket and… We rate it caution — one recorded limit reduction, on 2026-06-29. Best for databases workloads — 8 alternatives available.
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Free Tier Details
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.
Appwrite Cloud runs its own MCP server. "The Appwrite MCP server is a remote server that uses the HTTP transport." (From https://appwrite.io/docs/tooling/ai/mcp-servers, read 2026-10-20.) The endpoint is https://mcp.appwrite.io/, the transport is HTTP, and authentication uses OAuth.
We read that on 2026-11-02 from https://appwrite.io/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Appwrite Cloud as "appwrite cloud" and states "$0". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
The Free plan's resources are shared across the account's 2 projects, which draw on one allowance. Paid plans give each project its own resources. (From appwrite.io/docs/advanced/billing/free, read 2026-10-11.)
A Free project with no development activity in the Appwrite Console for 7 days is paused. User traffic does not prevent pausing. The project becomes inaccessible to users and stops running backups, cron jobs, and scheduled functions until reactivated in the Console. (From appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-02-20-1, read 2026-10-11.)
From October 19, 2026, cron schedules for functions on Appwrite Cloud need a paid plan. On the Free and Education plans, functions run only on an interval of 60 minutes or longer. Existing cron schedules become intervals close to how often they ran. (From appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-10-15-1, read 2026-10-19.)
If a Free project reaches any resource limit, such as function executions or monthly active users, it freezes and the Console becomes read-only until the next billing cycle, or the owner upgrades to Pro or removes the resources over the limit. (From appwrite.io/pricing, read 2026-10-05.)
From November 5, 2026, Appwrite Cloud deletes inactive function and site deployments more than 30 days old by default. A deployment's age counts from the day it was created. The active deployment and any deployment a custom domain points to are kept. On the Free plan, retention can be raised to at most 90 days and each function or site keeps at most its 100 newest inactive deployments. (From appwrite.io/blog/post/default-deployment-retention, read 2026-10-22.)
Pro starts at $25 a month. It includes one project with 2TB bandwidth, 150GB storage, 3.5M executions and 200K monthly active users. Each additional project costs $15. (From appwrite.io/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
Additional API bandwidth costs $15 per 100GB a month. Additional storage costs $2.8 per 100GB. Additional executions cost $2 per 1m. Additional users cost $3 per 1,000 users. Additional reads cost $0.060 per 100k and writes $0.10 per 100k. (From appwrite.io/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
On Pro, Appwrite automatically buys extra resources when an organization exceeds its limits. The budget cap limits how much it can scale. (From appwrite.io/docs/advanced/billing/pro, read 2026-10-29.)
When You'll Outgrow Appwrite Cloud's Free Tier
At 2 GB storage, you'll need to upgrade.
At 5 GB bandwidth, you'll need to upgrade.
At 75K MAU, you'll need to upgrade.
At 1 database, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 8 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.
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). Retracted 2026-09-27: nothing changed on 2026-09-05. The Internet Archive's capture of Appwrite's pricing page on 2026-08-09 shows the same Free plan this record reports: 5GB bandwidth, 2GB storage, 750K executions, 75K monthly active users, 1 Database and 1 Bucket per project, "Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity. Limit of 2 projects." The record compared the page with our own listing text, which left the project limit out. Source ↗
Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source ↗
Before: Free: paused projects kept their data until resumed
After: Free: projects paused for 90 days are deleted with all their resources, after email alerts
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 ↗
Before: Free: 3M Realtime messages a month on the pricing page, not enforced; no maximum message size stated
After: Free: 2M Realtime messages a month, enforced from 2026-04-30; 256 KB maximum message size
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 ↗
Before: Free: "Never paused." (pricing page, 2025-07-20 to 2025-12-24)
After: Free: projects with no development activity for 7 consecutive days are paused automatically and can be resumed from the Console
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 ↗
Appwrite limited its Free plan to two projects per organization, down from unlimited. It announced the limit on 2025-07-23, and organizations with more projects kept them until 2025-09-01. Source ↗
Before: Free: unlimited projects (pricing table, "Number of projects: Unlimited")
After: Free: "limited to two projects per organization" from 2025-09-01
How Appwrite Cloud compares against every one of the 8 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.
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Yes, Appwrite Cloud offers a free tier: 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 proj... Appwrite Cloud runs its own MCP server. "The Appwrite MCP server is a remote server that uses the HTTP transport." (From https://appwrite.io/docs/tooling/ai/mcp-servers, read 2026-10-20.) The endpoint is https://mcp.appwrite.io/, the transport is HTTP, and authentication uses OAuth.
What is Appwrite Cloud's free tier?
Appwrite Cloud's free tier is called "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. The Free plan's resources are shared across the account's 2 projects, which draw on one allowance. Paid plans give each project its own resources. (From https://appwrite.io/docs/advanced/billing/free, read 2026-10-11.) A Free project with no development activity in the Appwrite Console for 7 days is paused. User traffic does not prevent pausing. The project becomes inaccessible to users and stops running backups, cron jobs, and scheduled functions until reactivated in the Console. (From https://appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-02-20-1, read 2026-10-11.) Free projects are deleted after 90 days paused. (From https://appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-06-29, read 2026-10-05.) From October 19, 2026, cron schedules for functions on Appwrite Cloud need a paid plan. On the Free and Education plans, functions run only on an interval of 60 minutes or longer. Existing cron schedules become intervals close to how often they ran. (From https://appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-10-15-1, read 2026-10-19.) If a Free project reaches any resource limit, such as function executions or monthly active users, it freezes and the Console becomes read-only until the next billing cycle, or the owner upgrades to Pro or removes the resources over the limit. (From https://appwrite.io/pricing, read 2026-10-05.) From November 5, 2026, Appwrite Cloud deletes inactive function and site deployments more than 30 days old by default. A deployment's age counts from the day it was created. The active deployment and any deployment a custom domain points to are kept. On the Free plan, retention can be raised to at most 90 days and each function or site keeps at most its 100 newest inactive deployments. (From https://appwrite.io/blog/post/default-deployment-retention, read 2026-10-22.) On the Free plan, inactive deployments count toward the same 2 GB of storage as files and databases. (From https://appwrite.io/blog/post/default-deployment-retention, read 2026-10-22.) Pro starts at $25 a month. It includes one project with 2TB bandwidth, 150GB storage, 3.5M executions and 200K monthly active users. Each additional project costs $15. (From https://appwrite.io/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) Additional API bandwidth costs $15 per 100GB a month. Additional storage costs $2.8 per 100GB. Additional executions cost $2 per 1m. Additional users cost $3 per 1,000 users. Additional reads cost $0.060 per 100k and writes $0.10 per 100k. (From https://appwrite.io/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) On Pro, Appwrite automatically buys extra resources when an organization exceeds its limits. The budget cap limits how much it can scale. (From https://appwrite.io/docs/advanced/billing/pro, read 2026-10-29.) Appwrite Cloud runs its own MCP server. "The Appwrite MCP server is a remote server that uses the HTTP transport." (From https://appwrite.io/docs/tooling/ai/mcp-servers, read 2026-10-20.) The endpoint is https://mcp.appwrite.io/, the transport is HTTP, and authentication uses OAuth.
Is Appwrite Cloud's free tier reliable?
Appwrite Cloud's free tier requires caution because of one specific recorded change, on 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: https://appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-06-29
Is Appwrite Cloud's free tier good for production?
Appwrite Cloud's free tier is usable for prototyping and development, but we rate it caution because of one recorded limit reduction, on 2026-06-29. Consider alternatives with more stable pricing for critical services.
What changed in Appwrite Cloud's pricing?
Appwrite Cloud has had 5 recorded pricing changes. Most recently: Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source: https://appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-06-29 (2026-06-29).
What are the best free alternatives to Appwrite Cloud?
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 8 free alternatives to Appwrite Cloud in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 6 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 2 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Appwrite Cloud's free tier?
At 2 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 Appwrite Cloud in?
Appwrite Cloud is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 8 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.