SurrealDB Cloud free tier includes Multi-model cloud database — The 'Start' plan offers 1GB of storage free, forever, and a free… Verified October 2026. Compare with 24 alternatives in Databases.

SurrealDB Cloud Free Tier 2026

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Subtypes in Databases: relational — tables, rows and joins under SQL — Postgres, MySQL, SQLite family; document — schemaless JSON/BSON documents as the stored unit; graph — nodes and edges are the primary model, with a traversal query language; vector — stores embeddings and answers similarity queries as its primary access path. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://surrealdb.com/, where it says: “SurrealDB is a database and an agent memory layer. Documents, graphs, vectors, and SQL in one engine - and context for your AI agents wherever your data lives.” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 24 alternatives. Verified October 2026. Last updated 2026-10-28.

SurrealDB Cloud's free tier offers Multi-model cloud database — The 'Start' plan offers 1GB of storage free, forever, and a free compute instance with… We rate it stable. One recorded limit reduction narrowed the terms, discovered 2026-04-12. Best for databases workloads — 24 alternatives available.

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⚠️ Pricing change: The free tier now includes a compute instance with 0.25 vCPU and 1 GB memory, but also lists several paid tiers with varying compute and storage options. The free tier is now explicitly a 'Start' plan with hourly billing for additional resources beyond the free limits. Source ↗ (discovered 2026-10-04 · effective date unknown) View in changelog →

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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.

We read that on 2026-10-28 from https://surrealdb.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names SurrealDB Cloud as "surrealdb cloud" and states "$0" and "$0.021" and "$ 0.000" and "$ 0.021".

From surrealdb.com/pricing, read 2026-10-28:

1GB of storage free, forever

When You'll Outgrow SurrealDB Cloud's Free Tier

When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 24 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 (2 recorded)

restructured discovered 2026-10-04 · effective date unknown medium impact

The free tier now includes a compute instance with 0.25 vCPU and 1 GB memory, but also lists several paid tiers with varying compute and storage options. The free tier is now explicitly a 'Start' plan with hourly billing for additional resources beyond the free limits. Source ↗

Before: Multi-model cloud database — 1 GB storage, 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB memory free. Supports SQL-like queries, graph relations, document storage, real-time subscriptions. Includes team collaboration and RBAC

After: 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.

reduced discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown low impact

Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗

Before: 1 GB memory

After: 512 MB memory

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Alternatives in Databases

How SurrealDB Cloud compares against every one of the 24 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
SurrealDB Cloud	Free	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
Upstash	Free Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (250MB data). Vector: 200M vectors × dimensions and 10K queries a day free.	stable
Nile	Free Postgres for multi-tenant apps — 1 GB storage, 50M serverless query tokens, 500 max connections. Unlimited databases and tenant DBs.	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
Chroma	Open Source Open-source AI-native embedding database (Apache 2.0). Chroma Cloud, its hosted service, is winding down: read-only from December 7, 2026, no reads from December 22, 2026.	stable
Cloudflare Vectorize	Free Vectorize is Cloudflare's vector database for Workers. Workers Free includes 30 million queried vector dimensions per month and 5 million stored vector dimensions (about 6,500 vectors of 768 dimensions, or about 3,250 vectors of 1,536 dimensions).	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
MongoDB Atlas	M0 Free Free 512 MB shared cluster (M0), always free, available on AWS/Azure/GCP. Includes Atlas Vector Search for AI/RAG applications Atlas automatically pauses Free (M0) clusters after 30 days of inactivity where there are zero connections to the cluster. (From mongodb.com/docs/atlas/reference/free-shared-limitations, read 2026-10-18.) A Free cluster allows at most 500 connections and 100 read and write operations per second; operations over that limit are queued. (From mongodb.com/docs/atlas/reference/free-shared-limitations, read 2026-10-18.) MongoDB Atlas's free M0 cluster needs no credit card. (From mongodb.com/resources/basics/databases/cloud-databases/free-cloud-database, read 2026-10-22.) An agent can create a MongoDB Atlas M0 cluster via the API without an account. A person must sign in to claim the cluster, which then becomes a standard Free cluster with no expiration. Unclaimed clusters pause after 2 days and delete after 7. (From mongodb.com/docs/atlas/tutorial/create-ephemeral-cluster, read 2026-10-22.) The Flex tier has a monthly base price of $8.00, which includes 5GB storage, 100 operations per second and unlimited data transfer. More operations per second cost extra by tier, and Flex clusters are capped at $30 per month. (From mongodb.com/docs/atlas/billing/atlas-flex-costs, read 2026-10-29.) Flex clusters limit total data storage to 5 GB and the number of read and write operations to 500 operations per second. (From mongodb.com/docs/atlas/reference/flex-limitations, read 2026-10-29.) Upgrading a Free cluster asks for payment information and starts billing. Changing from a Free cluster to a Flex cluster requires downtime. (From mongodb.com/docs/atlas/scale-cluster, read 2026-10-29.)	stable
Nhost	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.	stable
Upstash Vector	Free Serverless vector database by Upstash. Free: 200M vectors × dimensions (about 130,000 vectors at the maximum 1,536 dimensions), 100 namespaces, 10K queries and updates a day, 1 GB of data	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
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
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
restdb.io	Free a fast and straightforward NoSQL cloud database service. With restdb.io you get schema, relations, automatic REST API (with MongoDB-like queries), and an efficient multi-user admin UI for working with data.	stable
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
Zilliz Cloud	Free Managed Milvus vector database — free tier: 5 GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/month, up to 5 collections. Milvus open-source also free to self-host with no limits	stable
Weaviate	Open Source Open-source vector database — self-hosted free. Cloud: permanent free tier with 1 cluster, 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection, up to 3 tenants, 2,000 embedding requests/day and 1,000 Query Agent requests/month.	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
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
Neo4j AuraDB	Free Graph database cloud service — free tier: single database, up to 200,000 nodes and 400,000 relationships. Full Cypher query language support.	stable
Couchbase Capella	Free deploy a forever free tier fully managed database cluster with 1 node and 8GB storage, built for developers to create the next generation of applications across IoT to AI	source unconfirmed
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
Turbopuffer	Pay-as-you-go Serverless vector database. No free tier: every plan has a monthly minimum, $16 on Launch and $256 on Scale, and usage above the minimum is billed.	unrated

Left out of this list: Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Convex (shares no subtype with this product), Appwrite Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), PocketBase (shares no subtype with this product), 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), LanceDB (shares no subtype with this product), Gel (we have not classified this record), InfluxDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Hasura (extends another product), 8base.com (shares no subtype with this product), codehooks.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 24 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: 2026-11-14
query_key: alternatives:Databases:SurrealDB Cloud
seed: 4ae4f88c4f655419ae812749a8a0e3b6cf9e7b600f7bfc5eb5f536e09e33366b
tie_count: 20

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is SurrealDB Cloud free?

Yes, SurrealDB Cloud offers a free tier: 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/h...

What is SurrealDB Cloud's free tier?

SurrealDB Cloud's free tier is called "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.

Is SurrealDB Cloud's free tier reliable?

SurrealDB Cloud's free tier is considered stable. One recorded limit reduction narrowed the terms, discovered 2026-04-12. See the pricing history below.

Is SurrealDB Cloud's free tier good for production?

SurrealDB Cloud's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Multi-model cloud database — The 'Start' plan offers 1GB of storage free, forever, and a free compute instance with…, so it's a reasonable starting point. One recorded limit reduction narrowed the terms, discovered 2026-04-12. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.

What changed in SurrealDB Cloud's pricing?

SurrealDB Cloud has had 2 recorded pricing changes. Most recently: The free tier now includes a compute instance with 0.25 vCPU and 1 GB memory, but also lists several paid tiers with varying compute and storage options. The free tier is now explicitly a 'Start' plan with hourly billing for additional resources beyond the free limits. Source: https://surrealdb.com/pricing (discovered 2026-10-04).

What are the best free alternatives to SurrealDB Cloud?

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 24 free alternatives to SurrealDB Cloud in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 20 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 3 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 SurrealDB Cloud'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 SurrealDB Cloud in?

SurrealDB Cloud is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 24 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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