LanceDB free tier includes Embedded vector database — OSS: fully free, runs locally or in your cloud, no limits… Catalogue date October 2026. Compare with 2 alternatives in Databases.
Subtypes in Databases: analytical — columnar warehouse for aggregate scans, not row-level transactions. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://docs.lancedb.com/, where it says: “Multimodal lakehouse for AI.” How we use this.
LanceDB's free tier offers Embedded vector database — OSS: fully free, runs locally or in your cloud, no limits… It's stable — the change we last considered recording restated the terms we already publish. Best for databases workloads.
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.
We read that on 2026-11-08 from https://lancedb.com/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names LanceDB as "lancedb" and states amounts, none of which we matched to the terms we publish. A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
No recorded pricing changes for LanceDB. This is a good sign — stable pricing.
How LanceDB compares against every one of the 2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LanceDB | Open Source | stable |
| Google Cloud BigQuery | Always Free Always Free: 1 TiB queries/month, 10 GiB storage. Serverless data warehouse with SQL, ML, and BI built in. |
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 |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
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