Xata free tier includes Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 13 alternatives in Databases.
Subtypes in Databases:relational — tables, rows and joins under SQL — Postgres, MySQL, SQLite family. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://xata.io/, where it says: “Postgres platform with instant branching and scale-to-zero compute.”How we use this.
Limits, pricing history, and 13 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-10-08.
Xata's free tier offers Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero… We rate it stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Best for databases workloads — 13 alternatives available.
The day we last read the vendor's page. Our last read of it, on 2026-10-08, found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record. We hold no confirmation of the terms we publish — the 2026-08-22 beside this date is not one we can source to a read that confirmed them.
Free Tier Details
Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero. Self-hosted on Kubernetes — free forever. The managed platform, Xata Cloud, is paid: from $0.012 an hour plus $0.28 per GB-month of storage, billed by the minute, with a 14-day free trial.
We read that on 2026-10-08 from https://xata.io/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Xata as "xata" and states "$0.012" and "$0.28" and "$ 0.012" and "$ 0.28". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
From xata.io/pricing, read 2026-10-08:
Free Self-host on your own infrastructure. Branching Included Scale-to-zero Included Wake-up time ~10s Storage OpenEBS/Mayastor Anonymization Standard Provisioning Self-managed Support Community Observability Not included Compliance Not included Multi-region Not included
When You'll Outgrow Xata's Free Tier
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 13 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 (2026-09-28). Retracted 2026-09-28: Xata's managed platform had no free tier to end in April 2026. Its pricing page showed pay-as-you-go plans and a free trial from the Internet Archive's 2025-06-11 capture on; the 15 GB free plan this record names was on the page in the 2025-05-01 capture and belonged to the old platform, which became Xata Lite and was retired on 2026-02-28 (our Xata Lite record). Xata's April 2026 change was the Apache 2.0 open-source release of 2026-04-15, which added a free self-hosted edition. Source ↗
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How Xata compares against every one of the 13 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.
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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 13 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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Yes, Xata offers a free tier: Free. Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero. Self-hosted on Kubernetes — free forever. The managed platform, Xata Cloud, is paid: from $0.012 an hour plus...
What is Xata's free tier?
Xata's free tier is called "Free". Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero. Self-hosted on Kubernetes — free forever. The managed platform, Xata Cloud, is paid: from $0.012 an hour plus $0.28 per GB-month of storage, billed by the minute, with a 14-day free trial.
Is Xata's free tier reliable?
Xata'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 Xata's free tier good for production?
Xata's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero…, 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 Xata's pricing?
The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.
What are the best free alternatives to Xata?
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 13 free alternatives to Xata in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 11 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is demoted with the reason named, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Xata'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 Xata in?
Xata is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 13 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.