Xata free tier includes Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero… Verified November 2026. Compare with 12 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 12 alternatives. Verified November 2026. Last updated 2026-11-02.
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 The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.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 — 12 alternatives available.
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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.
Xata runs its own MCP server. "A hosted MCP server that runs alongside the Xata API — there is nothing to install or run locally." (From https://xata.io/docs/platform/mcp, read 2026-10-20.) The endpoint is https://api.xata.tech/mcp, the transport is Streamable HTTP, and authentication uses OAuth in the browser, or a Xata API key in the header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_XATA_API_KEY".
We read that on 2026-11-02 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".
From xata.io/pricing, read 2026-11-02:
Free Self-host on your own infrastructure. Branching badge 13 Included Scale-to-zero badge 13 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 GitHub
Xata announced on November 9, 2026 that it is joining ClickHouse. Xata continues to accept new sign-ups and customers can use it as usual. Xata will eventually migrate customers to ClickHouse Managed Postgres after feature parity. Xata did not give a date for the migration. (From xata.io/blog/xata-is-joining-clickhouse, read 2026-11-10.)
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 12 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 ↗
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 3 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
How Xata compares against every one of the 12 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.
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.)
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.)
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.
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).
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
Distributed SQL database. No free plan for new deployments since 2026-09-15, when CockroachDB moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing.
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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... Xata runs its own MCP server. "A hosted MCP server that runs alongside the Xata API — there is nothing to install or run locally." (From https://xata.io/docs/platform/mcp, read 2026-10-20.) The endpoint is https://api.xata.tech/mcp, the transport is Streamable HTTP, and authentication uses OAuth in the browser, or a Xata API key in the header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_XATA_API_KEY".
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. Xata announced on November 9, 2026 that it is joining ClickHouse. Xata continues to accept new sign-ups and customers can use it as usual. Xata will eventually migrate customers to ClickHouse Managed Postgres after feature parity. Xata did not give a date for the migration. (From https://xata.io/blog/xata-is-joining-clickhouse, read 2026-11-10.) Xata runs its own MCP server. "A hosted MCP server that runs alongside the Xata API — there is nothing to install or run locally." (From https://xata.io/docs/platform/mcp, read 2026-10-20.) The endpoint is https://api.xata.tech/mcp, the transport is Streamable HTTP, and authentication uses OAuth in the browser, or a Xata API key in the header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_XATA_API_KEY".
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 12 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. 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 12 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.