Nhost free tier includes Open-source backend with Postgres and Hasura GraphQL, plus Auth, Storage and Functions… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 19 alternatives in Databases.

Nhost Free Tier 2026 stable

Subtypes in Databases: relational — tables, rows and joins under SQL — Postgres, MySQL, SQLite family; backend_platform — bundles a database with auth, functions or storage as one product. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://nhost.io/, where it says: “Nhost is a managed backend platform with Postgres, GraphQL, Auth, Storage, and serverless Functions.” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 19 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-09-24.

Nhost's free tier offers Open-source backend with Postgres and Hasura GraphQL, plus Auth, Storage and Functions… We rate it stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Best for databases workloads — 19 alternatives available.

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Tier
Free
Category
Pricing Page
Catalogue date
2026-08-25
Last read
2026-09-24
The day we last read the vendor's page. Our last read of it, on 2026-09-24, found the page different from the terms we hold. We hold no confirmation of the terms we publish — the 2026-08-25 beside this date is not one we can source to a read that confirmed them.

Free Tier Details

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. It is limited to 1 project, and the project is paused after 1 week of inactivity. Pro starts at $25 a month with $15 of compute credits, a 10 GB database, 50 GB storage and 50 GB egress.

We read that on 2026-09-24 from https://nhost.io/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Nhost as "nhost" 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.

When You'll Outgrow Nhost's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (1 recorded)

Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). The free tier now pauses projects after 1 week of inactivity. Retracted 2026-09-27: nothing changed on 2026-09-07. The Internet Archive's capture of Nhost's pricing page on 2026-08-28 shows the same Starter plan this record reports: "$0 / month Limit of 1 project. Project paused after 1 week of inactivity. 1 GB database 1 GB storage 5 GB egress". The record compared the page with our own listing text. Source ↗
Before: Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres + Hasura GraphQL — 1 GB database, 5 GB storage, 5 GB bandwidth free
After: The Starter plan is free forever with a limit of 1 project. The project will be paused after 1 week of inactivity. It includes 1 GB database, 1 GB storage, and 5 GB egress.

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Alternatives in Databases

How Nhost compares against every one of the 19 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
Nhost Free stable
8base.com Free stable
Appwrite Cloud Free caution
Neon Free stable
Firebase Spark stable
Turso Free stable
Xata Free stable
SurrealDB Cloud Free caution
CrateDB Free (CRFREE) stable
Convex Free stable
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Free Tier stable
Cloudflare D1 Free stable
codehooks.io Free caution
Nile Free unrated
filess.io Free stable
Aiven Free stable
Supabase Free stable
Koyeb Free (Database Only) stable
PocketBase Free source unconfirmed
CockroachDB Trial risky

Left out of this list: MongoDB Atlas (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash (shares no subtype with this product), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), 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), 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). 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 19 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
2026-09-30
query_key
alternatives:Databases:Nhost
seed
6aa991c60c25200c97db34c559fa19907696c2eeb92f43d7d9184f66fcc3bfc2
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17

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Nhost free?
Yes, Nhost offers a free tier: 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 u...
What is Nhost's free tier?
Nhost's free tier is called "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. It is limited to 1 project, and the project is paused after 1 week of inactivity. Pro starts at $25 a month with $15 of compute credits, a 10 GB database, 50 GB storage and 50 GB egress.
Is Nhost's free tier reliable?
Nhost'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 Nhost's free tier good for production?
Nhost's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Open-source backend with Postgres and Hasura GraphQL, plus Auth, Storage and Functions…, 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 Nhost's pricing?
The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.
What are the best free alternatives to Nhost?
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 19 free alternatives to Nhost in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 17 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 Nhost'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 Nhost in?
Nhost is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 19 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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