Nhost free tier includes Open-source backend with Postgres and Hasura GraphQL, plus Auth, Storage and Functions… Verified November 2026. Compare with 18 alternatives in Databases.

Nhost Free Tier 2026

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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 18 alternatives. Verified November 2026. Last updated 2026-11-03.

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 The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.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 — 18 alternatives available.

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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 2026-11-03 from https://nhost.io/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Nhost as "nhost" and states "$0" and "$25" and "$15" and "$ 15".

From nhost.io/pricing, read 2026-11-03:

Starter Get your idea off the ground for free. $0 / month Limit of 1 project. Project paused after 1 week of inactivity. 1 GB database 1 GB storage 5 GB egress

When You'll Outgrow Nhost's Free Tier

At 1 GB storage, you'll need to upgrade.
At 5 GB bandwidth, you'll need to upgrade.
At 1 project, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 18 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)

restricted discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown medium impact

Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). 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 ↗

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Alternatives in Databases

How Nhost compares against every one of the 18 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
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
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
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
Aiven	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.	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
Nile	Free Postgres for multi-tenant apps — 1 GB storage, 50M serverless query tokens, 500 max connections. Unlimited databases and tenant DBs.	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
Convex	Free Reactive backend — 1M function calls/month, 0.5 GB database + vector storage, 1 GB file storage, real-time sync	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
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
Firebase	Spark Spark plan, no payment method needed: Auth (50K MAU), Firestore Standard edition (1 GiB stored, 50K reads/day, 20K writes/day, 20K deletes/day), Realtime Database (100 simultaneous connections, 1 GB stored, 10 GB/month downloaded), Hosting (10 GB storage, 360 MB/day transfer), and no-cost…	caution
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
codehooks.io	Free The free plan includes 1 Developer, API/Functions: 1/sec, 500/day, 1 Worker per queue, Worker timeout 30s, 150 MB Database Storage, 1 GB File Storage, 1 Space Chat and Email Support. No Credit Card Required.	caution
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
PocketBase	Free Open-source backend in a single Go binary — SQLite database, real-time subscriptions, built-in auth (email, OAuth2), file storage (S3-compatible), REST API. Completely free and self-hosted, no vendor lock-in.	source unconfirmed
Appwrite Cloud	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 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.) Free projects are deleted after 90 days paused. (From 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 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.) On the Free plan, inactive deployments count toward the same 2 GB of storage as files and databases. (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.)	caution
8base.com	Free 8base is a full-stack low-code development platform built for JavaScript developers built on top of MySQL and GraphQL and serverless backend-as-a-service. It allows you to start building web applications quickly using a UI app builder and scale quickly, The Free tier includes rows: 2,500, Storage:…	unrated
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), 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), 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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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 18 free alternatives to Nhost in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 14 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 4 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 18 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.