Supabase free tier includes Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 25 alternatives in Databases.
Subtypes in Databases:relational — tables, rows and joins under SQL — Postgres, MySQL, SQLite family; vector — stores embeddings and answers similarity queries as its primary access path; backend_platform — bundles a database with auth, functions or storage as one product. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://supabase.com/, where it says: “Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings.”How we use this.
Limits, pricing history, and 25 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-09-19.
Supabase's free tier offers Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions… We rate it stable. One recorded limit reduction narrowed the terms, on 2026-02-01. Best for databases workloads — 25 alternatives available.
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Free Tier Details
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 invocations, and Realtime with 200 concurrent connections and 2 million messages a month. Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity, with a limit of 2 active projects. Pro starts at $25 a month for the first project and includes $10 a month of compute credits, enough for one Micro instance.
We read that on 2026-09-19 from https://supabase.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Supabase as "supabase" and states "$ 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 Supabase's Free Tier
At 5 GB bandwidth, you'll need to upgrade.
At 50,000 MAU, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 25 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.
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). The free tier now has a 1 week inactivity pause, and compute is now a separate cost with a $10/month credit on paid plans. The free tier also has a spend cap. Retracted 2026-09-27: nothing changed on 2026-09-03. The Internet Archive's captures of Supabase's pricing page on 2025-05-30, 2026-08-02 and 2026-09-08 all say "Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity. Limit of 2 active projects." and give the Pro plan $10 of compute credits a month, and the spend cap they describe is the Pro plan's ("The Pro Plan has a spend cap enabled by default"), not the Free plan's. The 2025-05-30 capture also says "Compute instances are billed hourly", and the closest capture before the record, 2026-08-22, shows the same Free plan. The record compared the page with our own listing text. Source ↗
Before: Open source Firebase alternative — 500 MB Postgres database, 50K monthly active users, 1 GB file storage, 5 GB bandwidth (uncached egress across all services: Storage, Auth, Functions, Database, Realtime) + 5 GB CDN cached egress, 500K edge function invocations, 200 concurrent realtime connections, 2 free projects. Includes Auth, Storage, Realtime, and Edge Functions
After: The free tier includes unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, 500 MB database size, 5 GB egress, 1 GB file storage. Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity. Paid plans include $10/mo in compute credits.
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Yes, Supabase offers a free tier: 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 50...
What is Supabase's free tier?
Supabase's free tier is called "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 invocations, and Realtime with 200 concurrent connections and 2 million messages a month. Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity, with a limit of 2 active projects. Pro starts at $25 a month for the first project and includes $10 a month of compute credits, enough for one Micro instance.
Is Supabase's free tier reliable?
Supabase's free tier is considered stable. One recorded limit reduction narrowed the terms, on 2026-02-01. See the pricing history below.
Is Supabase's free tier good for production?
Supabase's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions…, so it's a reasonable starting point. One recorded limit reduction narrowed the terms, on 2026-02-01. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.
What changed in Supabase's pricing?
Supabase has had 1 recorded pricing change. Most recently: Project pause policy tightened — inactive projects now pause after 1 week Source: https://supabase.com/pricing (2026-02-01).
What are the best free alternatives to Supabase?
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 25 free alternatives to Supabase in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 22 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, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Supabase's free tier?
At 5 GB bandwidth, 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 Supabase in?
Supabase is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 25 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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