CockroachDB free tier includes Distributed SQL database… Verified September 2026. Compare with 13 alternatives in Databases.
How it ended: effective 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 ↗ Full history ↓
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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://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.
CockroachDB's free tier offers Distributed SQL database… Its free tier has ended — one recorded free tier removal, on 2026-09-15. We no longer rate it. Best for databases workloads — 13 alternatives available.
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.
We read that on 2026-09-16 from https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names CockroachDB as "cockroachdb".
How CockroachDB compares against every one of the 13 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CockroachDB | Trial | risky |
| Supabase | Free | stable |
| filess.io | Free | stable |
| CrateDB | Free (CRFREE) | stable |
| Nile | Free | unrated |
| Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL | Free Tier | stable |
| Turso | Free | stable |
| Aiven | Free | stable |
| Koyeb | Free (Database Only) | stable |
| Neon | Free | stable |
| Xata | Free | stable |
| Cloudflare D1 | Free | stable |
| Nhost | Free | stable |
| SurrealDB Cloud | Free | caution |
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