PocketBase free tier includes Open-source backend in a single Go binary — SQLite database, real-time subscriptions, built-in auth… Not verified — the page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read. Compare with 8 alternatives in Databases.
Subtypes in Databases:backend_platform — bundles a database with auth, functions or storage as one product. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://pocketbase.io/, where it says: “Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard”How we use this.
Limits, pricing history, and 8 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-10-30.
PocketBase's free tier offers Open-source backend in a single Go binary — SQLite database, real-time subscriptions, built-in auth (email, OAuth2)… The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-30, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
The day we last read the vendor's page. Our last read of it, on 2026-10-30, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. We hold no confirmation of the terms we publish — the 2026-08-11 beside this date is not one we can source to a read that confirmed them.
Free Tier Details
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. Single executable, no dependencies
When You'll Outgrow PocketBase's Free Tier
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, 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.
Pricing Change History (0 recorded)
No recorded pricing changes for PocketBase — but the page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-30, so nothing we have read describes these terms. Treat the empty history as a statement about our records, not about this vendor's pricing.
How PocketBase 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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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:…
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.)
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.)
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We cannot confirm that today. The page we cite for PocketBase states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-30. Our stored record says PocketBase offers a free tier: 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 ... We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
What is PocketBase's free tier?
We cannot confirm that today. The page we cite for PocketBase states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-30. Our stored record calls PocketBase's free tier "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. Single executable, no dependencies. We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
Is PocketBase's free tier reliable?
We cannot say. The page we cite for PocketBase states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-30. Nothing we have read describes these terms, so we are not publishing a stability judgement for this vendor until that is fixed.
Is PocketBase's free tier good for production?
The page we cite for PocketBase states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-30. We cannot confirm what this offer provides today, so we are not recommending it for production or for anything else until we can.
What changed in PocketBase's pricing?
We hold no recorded pricing changes for PocketBase, but the page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-30, so that is a statement about our records rather than a positive signal.
What are the best free alternatives to PocketBase?
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 PocketBase 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 PocketBase's free tier?
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, 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 PocketBase in?
PocketBase 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.