Databases
Postgres hosts, BaaS, vector databases, and storage.
Tool | Category | Plan | Pricing Model | Free Tier Durability | Sleeps / Pauses? | Sleep / Pause Trigger | Included Limits | Overages / Paid Usage | Backups / Restore | Regions / Cloud | Best Use | Production Fit | |||
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| Backend DB | Free | Free hard quota | Forever-free with active project limits | ✓ | Free projects pause after 1 week of inactivity | 500 MB database, 50k MAU, 5 GB egress, 1 GB file storage, 2 active projects | Upgrade to Pro for more resources and no inactivity pause | No automatic backups on Free | Managed Supabase cloud | Vibe-coded MVPs needing Postgres, auth, storage in one place | Prototype / small hobby | ||||
| Backend DB | Pro | Subscription + usage | Paid subscription | ✕ | Never on paid plans | First project included; 8 GB disk/project, 100k MAU, 250 GB egress, 100 GB file storage | Additional projects from $10/mo; disk $0.125/GB; egress $0.09/GB | Daily backups stored 7 days | Managed Supabase cloud | Production MVPs needing full backend bundle | Production starter | ||||
| Backend DB | Team | Subscription + usage | Paid subscription | ✕ | Never on paid plans | Pro resources plus org controls, SOC2/ISO, SSO dashboard, priority support | Usage-based add-ons after included quotas | Daily backups stored 14 days | Managed Supabase cloud | Teams needing compliance controls | Production team | ||||
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| Postgres | Free | Free usage allowance | Forever-free | ✓ | Compute scales to zero after 5 minutes idle; fixed on Free | 100 projects; 100 CU-hours/month per project; 0.5 GB storage/project; 5 GB public transfer; Neon Auth 60k MAU | Upgrade to Launch or Scale for usage-based compute/storage | 6-hour restore/time travel window | Multi-cloud regions | Serverless Postgres for AI agents and web apps | Prototype / light production tests | ||||
| Postgres | Launch | Usage-based | Paid usage-based | Configurable | Scale-to-zero can be used; CU-hours billed only while compute runs | 100 projects, up to 16 CU autoscaling, 7-day restore window, 1M Auth MAU | $0.106/CU-hour; $0.35/GB-month storage; extra branches $1.50/branch-month | 7-day time travel/restores | Multi-cloud regions | Production path from Free without migration | Production starter | ||||
| Postgres | Scale | Usage-based | Paid usage-based | Configurable | Scale-to-zero available for eligible computes; larger computes stay active | 1,000+ projects, up to 56 CU fixed, 30-day restore, private networking, compliance options | $0.222/CU-hour; $0.35/GB-month storage; private transfer $0.01/GB | 30-day restore window | Multi-cloud regions | Larger production Postgres workloads | Production scale | ||||
| SQLite / Edge DB | Free | Free hard quota | Forever-free | ✓ | Free Starter scales databases to zero after 1 hour of no activity | 100 databases; plan-specific storage and usage limits | Upgrade to Developer, Scaler, or Pro | Plan-dependent | Global edge database locations | Edge apps, small SaaS, local-first patterns | Prototype / hobby | ||||
| SQLite / Edge DB | Developer | Subscription | Paid subscription | Likely scale-to-zero / serverless behavior | Provider scale-to-zero behavior applies by plan; verify for production | Unlimited databases; higher quotas than Free | Upgrade to Scaler or Pro | Plan-dependent | Global edge database locations | Cheap production-ish edge DB | Production starter | ||||
| SQLite / Edge DB | Scaler | Subscription | Paid subscription | Likely scale-to-zero / serverless behavior | Provider scale-to-zero behavior applies by plan; verify for production | Unlimited databases; higher included usage | Upgrade to Pro or Enterprise | Plan-dependent | Global edge database locations | Apps needing more Turso quota | Production | ||||
| SQLite / Edge DB | Pro | Subscription | Paid subscription | Likely scale-to-zero / serverless behavior | Provider scale-to-zero behavior applies by plan; verify for production | Unlimited databases; high quota tier | Enterprise for dedicated/BYOC | Plan-dependent | Global edge database locations | High usage Turso workloads | Production | ||||
| Postgres | Free | Free hard quota | Forever-free | ✓ | Serverless database scales to zero | 100k operations, 500 MB storage, 5 databases, no credit card | Upgrade to Starter/Pro/Business; operation and storage overages by plan | No paid backup retention on Free | Managed Prisma platform | Weekend ideas, Prisma-first apps | Prototype | ||||
| Postgres | Starter | Subscription + usage | Paid subscription | ✓ | Serverless scale-to-zero architecture | 1M operations, 10 GB storage, 10 databases, spend limits | $0.008 per 1k ops; $2/GB storage over included | Daily backups stored 7 days | Managed Prisma platform | Prisma apps moving toward launch | Production starter | ||||
| Postgres | Pro | Subscription + usage | Paid subscription | ✓ | Serverless scale-to-zero architecture | 10M operations, 50 GB storage, 100 databases, spend limits | $0.002 per 1k ops; storage overages apply | Daily backups stored 7 days | Managed Prisma platform | Growing Prisma-backed apps | Production | ||||
| Postgres | Business | Subscription + usage | Paid subscription | ✓ | Serverless scale-to-zero architecture | 50M operations, 100 GB storage, 1,000 databases, spend limits | $0.001 per 1k ops; lower storage overage than lower tiers | Daily backups stored 30 days | Managed Prisma platform | Mission-critical Prisma apps before custom enterprise | Production team | ||||
| Serverless SQL | Workers Free | Free daily caps | Always has a Free plan for prototyping | No compute billing | Scale-to-zero; no queries means no compute bill | 5M rows read/day, 100k rows written/day, 5 GB total storage | Upgrade to Workers Paid to remove daily caps and use monthly included usage | Time Travel/backups available per D1 features | Cloudflare global network | Cloudflare Workers apps and edge APIs | Prototype / small production with caps | ||||
| Serverless SQL | Workers Paid | Subscription + usage | Paid plan | No compute billing | Scale-to-zero; no queries means no compute bill | First 25B rows read/month, 50M rows written/month, first 5 GB storage | $0.001 per million rows read; $1/million rows written; $0.75/GB-month storage | Time Travel/backups available per D1 features | Cloudflare global network | Edge apps with predictable row-based pricing | Production starter | ||||
| Document DB | Spark | Free hard quota | Forever-free with monthly/daily quotas | ✕ | No inactivity sleep documented; quota exhaustion can shut off product for the cycle | 1 GiB stored data, 50k reads/day, 20k writes/day, 20k deletes/day, 10 GiB outbound/month | Upgrade to Blaze for pay-as-you-go beyond no-cost quota | Backups/PITR require billing | Google Cloud / Firebase | Mobile/web apps needing Firebase ecosystem | Prototype / small production | ||||
| Document DB | Blaze | Pay-as-you-go | Paid usage-based | ✕ | No inactivity sleep documented | No-cost quotas continue, then pay for usage beyond | Reads/writes/deletes/storage charged by location after free quota | Paid backup/PITR/restore features available | Google Cloud / Firebase | Firebase production apps | Production | ||||
| Document DB | M0 Free | Free hard quota | Free forever | ✕ | No inactivity sleep stated on pricing page | 512 MB storage, shared RAM, shared vCPU | Upgrade to Flex, M2/M5, or Dedicated | Limited/free-tier feature set | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud | Learning MongoDB and small prototypes | Prototype | ||||
| Document DB | M2 | Subscription | Paid subscription | ✕ | No inactivity sleep stated | 2 GB storage, shared RAM/vCPU | Upgrade to M5/Flex/Dedicated | Paid-tier feature set | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud | Small apps that outgrow M0 | Light production / dev | ||||
| Document DB | M5 | Subscription | Paid subscription | ✕ | No inactivity sleep stated | 5 GB storage, shared RAM/vCPU | Upgrade to Dedicated for production isolation | Paid-tier feature set | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud | Small MongoDB workloads | Light production | ||||
| Document DB | Dedicated M10 | Hourly / monthly | Paid usage-based | ✕ | No inactivity sleep stated | 10-128 GB storage, 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU | Starts at $0.08/hour; larger dedicated sizes available | Production backup options | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud | Production MongoDB workloads | Production | ||||
| Distributed SQL | Basic | Usage-based with free allowance | Free monthly allowance | ✓ | On-demand compute scales down to zero | First 50M RUs/month and first 10 GiB storage/month free; storage up to 3 TiB | Usage beyond free allowance billed by RU/storage | Managed backups, plan-dependent | Multi-region capable | Distributed SQL apps that need free-to-start | Prototype / production starter | ||||
| Distributed SQL | Standard | Provisioned / usage | Paid plan | No scale-to-zero like Basic | Provisioned compute with instant scaling | vCPU-based up to 200 vCPUs; on-demand storage | Usage billed for provisioned resources | Managed backups and maintenance windows | Multi-region capable | Production distributed SQL | Production | ||||
| PaaS Postgres | Free | Free temporary instance | Temporary free database | May restart | No sleep, but expires 30 days after creation | 1 GB fixed storage; one Free Postgres per workspace | Upgrade to paid instance during 14-day grace period after expiration | No backups on Free | Render regions | Demos and temporary prototypes | Prototype only | ||||
| PaaS Postgres | Paid flexible | Workspace + compute/storage | Paid plan | ✕ | Paid databases do not use the Free expiration model | Storage and compute set independently; expandable storage | Expandable storage $0.30/GB; compute per selected plan | PITR windows depend on workspace plan | Render regions | Apps already hosted on Render | Production starter | ||||
| PaaS DB Templates | Free Trial | Trial credit | 30-day trial / $5 one-time credit | Resource-based | Stateful volumes deleted 30 days after trial credit expiration if not upgraded | $5 credit, up to 30 days, databases allowed; trial resources limited | Upgrade to Hobby or Pro; usage billed | User-managed template DB backups unless configured | Railway platform | Fast prototyping with app + DB together | Prototype | ||||
| Postgres | Free 5h | Free limited active time | One free DB with active-hour limit | ✓ | Scale-to-zero on inactivity; free DB limited to 5 active hours and 1 GB storage | 0.25 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB storage, 5 active hours | Upgrade to Small/Medium/Large or paid platform plan | Plan-dependent | US, EU, Singapore regions | Tiny prototypes and tests | Prototype only | ||||
| Postgres | Small | Hourly usage | Paid usage-based | ✓ | Scale-to-zero in case of inactivity | 0.25 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, expandable storage | $0.04/hour; storage $0.50/GB-month | Plan-dependent | US, EU, Singapore regions | Small production Postgres on Koyeb | Production starter | ||||
| Postgres | Medium | Hourly usage | Paid usage-based | ✓ | Scale-to-zero in case of inactivity | 0.5 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, expandable storage | $0.08/hour; storage $0.50/GB-month | Plan-dependent | US, EU, Singapore regions | Heavier small production Postgres | Production | ||||
| Managed OSS DB | Free | Free limited instance | Free with no time limit | Potential unused shutdown | Aiven reserves right to shut down unused services | Single node, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB disk storage | Use paid plans or $300/30-day full platform trial for larger services | Backups included; 0-day retention on Free per pricing FAQ context | Aiven cloud regions | Free managed Postgres without auto-charge | Prototype | ||||
| Managed OSS DB | Free | Free limited instance | Free with no time limit | Potential unused shutdown | Aiven reserves right to shut down unused services | Single node, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB disk storage | Use paid plans or trial for larger services | Backups included; limited retention | Aiven cloud regions | Free managed MySQL option | Prototype | ||||
| Managed OSS DB | Free | Free limited instance | Free with no time limit | Potential unused shutdown | Aiven reserves right to shut down unused services | Single node, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM; maxmemory set to 50% | Use paid plans or trial for larger services | Backups/integrations included; limited retention | Aiven cloud regions | Redis-compatible cache without paid signup | Prototype | ||||
| Managed OSS DB | Free Trial | Trial credit | 30-day / $300 credit | ✕ | No sleep; credits expire | $300 credit for 30 days across service types and plan sizes | Paid usage after trial if continued | Plan-dependent | Aiven cloud regions | Testing production-like managed DBs | Trial / evaluation | ||||
| Backend DB | Free | Free hard quota | Forever-free with project limits | ✓ | Free projects pause after 1 week of inactivity | 1 database, 1 bucket, 2 functions per project; 5 GB bandwidth; 2 GB storage; 75k MAU; 2 projects | Upgrade to Pro for dedicated resources and unlimited DBs/functions | No daily backup retention on Free | Appwrite Cloud | Firebase-like backend with document DB | Prototype / small apps | ||||
| Backend DB | Pro | Subscription + usage | Paid subscription | ✕ | No inactivity pause stated for Pro | Dedicated resources; 2 TB bandwidth, 150 GB storage, 200k MAU, unlimited databases/buckets/functions | Additional bandwidth $15/100GB; additional storage $2.8/100GB; users $3/1k | Daily backups stored 7 days | Appwrite Cloud | Production backend alternative to Firebase/Supabase | Production starter | ||||
| Reactive Backend DB | Free / Starter | Free, then pay-as-you-go starter | Free plan with built-in resources; Starter pay-as-you-go beyond limits | No explicit DB sleep | Serverless backend; no database sleep called out on pricing page | Developers 1-6; file storage, text/vector search, crons, auth, actions, preview deployments | Starter can exceed included resources with usage-based pricing | Plan-dependent; daily backups on Professional | Selectable data region | Real-time apps and AI apps where backend is Convex-native | Prototype / startup | ||||
| Reactive Backend DB | Professional | Per developer subscription + usage | Paid subscription | No explicit DB sleep | Serverless backend | Developers 1-20; 25M function calls, 50 GB DB storage, 50 GB DB I/O, daily backups | Overage rates for function calls, action compute, storage, I/O, egress | Daily backups | Selectable data region | Production Convex apps | Production | ||||
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| Postgres | Free | Free usage allowance | Free tier | ✕ | Database never pauses; no cold start on free tier | Unlimited DBs/tenants within workspace limits; usage limits distributed across DBs | Can pay for additional capacity without moving tiers | Plan-dependent | Nile cloud | B2B multi-tenant apps and AI apps | Prototype / startup | ||||
| Postgres | Pro | Subscription + usage | Paid subscription | ✕ | No cold start; always-on serverless compute | 150M query tokens, 5 GB storage, unlimited DBs/tenants, 10k connections, 99.95% SLA | $0.05 per million query tokens; $1/GB storage | 1-week DB and tenant backups coming/plan-listed | All regions listed by Nile | Production B2B apps | Production starter | ||||
| Postgres | Scale | Subscription + usage | Paid subscription | ✕ | No cold start; always-on serverless compute | Higher limits; intended for scale tier | Usage-based query token and storage billing | Plan-dependent | All regions listed by Nile | Scaling B2B apps | Production scale | ||||
| MariaDB | Foundation | Free serverless option / usage | Forever-free serverless option for experimenting and early development | Serverless | Serverless option scales elastically | Foundation tier starts free; up to 16 vCPU/128 GB provisioned; up to 1000 GB storage | Provisioned resources billed by topology/region/instance/storage | Nightly backups; snapshots depending on configuration | AWS, GCP, Azure, 40+ regions | MariaDB-compatible apps | Prototype / starter | ||||
| MariaDB | Power | Hourly usage | Paid usage-based | Serverless / provisioned options | Autoscaling serverless option available | Enterprise-grade features, higher availability options | Starts at $0.16/hour plus storage/data transfer | Self-service snapshots/full/incremental/logical backups | AWS, GCP, Azure, 40+ regions | Mission-critical MariaDB apps | Production | ||||
| MariaDB | PowerPlus | Hourly usage | Paid usage-based | Serverless / provisioned options | Autoscaling serverless option available | Geo-distributed resilience and analytics features | Starts at $0.21/hour plus storage/data transfer | Extended backup options | AWS, GCP, Azure, 40+ regions | Advanced MariaDB production workloads | Production scale | ||||
| Redis / KV | Free | Free hard quota | Free plan | Serverless | Not billed while idle; limits not sleep-based | 1 free DB, 256 MB data, 500k monthly commands, 10 GB bandwidth | Upgrade to Pay as You Go or Fixed | Persistence included; production pack is paid add-on | AWS, GCP, Vercel-supported platforms | Rate limits, queues, session/cache for serverless apps | Prototype / light production | ||||
| Redis / KV | Pay as You Go | Usage-based | Paid usage-based | Serverless | No idle compute charge model | 100 GB data size, unlimited monthly bandwidth | $0.20 per 100k commands | Production pack +$200/month per database | AWS, GCP, Vercel-supported platforms | Variable traffic serverless Redis | Production starter | ||||
| Redis / KV | Fixed 250MB | Subscription | Paid subscription | Serverless | No per-command pricing on fixed plan | 250 MB data, 50 GB bandwidth, no per-command pricing | Read regions $5 each; storage overage pricing may apply by fixed plan | Production pack optional | AWS, GCP, Vercel-supported platforms | Predictable Redis costs for small production apps | Production starter | ||||
| Redis / KV | Essentials Free | Free limited instance | Free for training/prototyping | Deleted if inactive | Free 30 MB database can be deleted after 14 days without read/write commands | 30 MB memory, 30 concurrent connections | Upgrade to paid Essentials, Flex, or Pro | No backups/recovery on Free | Redis Cloud regions | Learning Redis and tiny prototypes | Prototype only | ||||
| Redis / KV | Essentials Paid | Subscription / usage | Paid subscription | No inactivity deletion | Paid databases are not deleted due to inactivity | 250 MB to 12 GB memory, 256-10k concurrent connections | Plan-size based pricing | Persistence/backup options by plan | Redis Cloud regions | Managed Redis with official Redis Cloud | Production starter | ||||
| Vector DB | Starter | Free included usage | Free plan | Serverless | No dedicated idle instance; serverless usage limits | 2 GB storage, 2M write units/month, 1M read units/month, 1 project, 2 users | Upgrade to Builder/Standard; paid unit pricing varies by cloud/region | Backups not on Starter | USA region on Starter | RAG prototypes and agent memory | Prototype / small apps | ||||
| Vector DB | Builder | Flat subscription | Paid subscription | Serverless | No dedicated idle instance; serverless usage | Increased usage limits; multiple projects/users; monitoring | Additional usage beyond Builder limits is blocked rather than billed | Plan-dependent | Cloud/region choice coming soon per pricing page | Solo dev vector apps with predictable cap | Production starter | ||||
| Vector DB | Standard | Minimum spend + pay-as-you-go | Paid plan / trial credits | Serverless | Usage-based serverless | $50 minimum usage; 3-week trial includes $300 credits | Pay-as-you-go beyond minimum | Backup and restore available | Cloud and region selection | Production vector search | Production | ||||
| Vector DB | Free Tier | Free limited cluster | Free forever | No sleep stated | No inactivity sleep stated on pricing page | Single-node cluster, 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB disk | Upgrade to Standard when exceeding free resources | No standard backup/DR on Free | AWS, Azure, GCP | Vector search prototypes | Prototype | ||||
| Vector DB | Standard | Resource usage-based | Paid usage-based | No sleep stated | Dedicated resources; scalable cluster | Dedicated resources, vertical/horizontal scaling, HA setups, backup/DR, 99.5% SLA | Cluster resource usage based pricing | Backup and disaster recovery included | AWS, Azure, GCP | Production vector search | Production | ||||
| Vector DB | Free Trial | 14-day trial | 14-day free trial | No sleep stated | Trial ends then pay-as-you-go | Sandbox/shared cloud cluster with core DB toolkit | Flex starts at $45/month after trial | Plan-dependent | Weaviate Cloud | Trying Weaviate without ops | Trial / evaluation | ||||
| Vector DB | Flex | Subscription / pay-as-you-go | Paid subscription | No sleep stated | No inactivity sleep stated | Shared cloud cluster, no-commit entry point | Usage/cluster pricing by selected setup | Plan-dependent | Weaviate Cloud | Small production vector DB | Production starter | ||||
| Cloud DB | Always Free | Always Free resource | Always Free | May stop if idle | Always Free Autonomous DB may be stopped after inactivity per OCI policies; can be restarted | Up to 2 Always Free Autonomous DB instances; limits include 30 simultaneous sessions | Upgrade instance to paid in OCI | Autonomous backups/features by service | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions | Free relational DB with Oracle SQL/APEX | Prototype / small apps | ||||
| Cloud DB | Free Tier | Lifetime free allowance | Lifetime free allowance for one account per subscription | ✕ | No inactivity sleep stated | 1,000 RU/s provisioned throughput and 25 GB storage free each month | Standard Cosmos DB charges beyond free tier | Backups/PITR plan-dependent | Azure regions | Apps already on Azure needing NoSQL free allowance | Prototype / small production | ||||
| Cloud DB | Standard | Provisioned / serverless usage | Paid usage-based | ✕ | No inactivity sleep stated | Free tier allowance can apply to eligible account; otherwise pay by RU/s/storage or serverless usage | Azure Cosmos DB pricing by API, region, throughput, storage | Backups/PITR available by configuration | Azure regions | Production Azure-native NoSQL | Production | ||||
| Cloud DB | Free Tier | Always-free allowances | Always-free style allowances | ✕ | No inactivity sleep stated | 25 GB storage included in AWS Free Tier; free read/write capacity allowances depend on billing mode/account eligibility | On-demand or provisioned charges beyond free tier | PITR/backups paid features | AWS regions | Serverless key-value workloads on AWS | Prototype / production starter | ||||
| Cloud DB | Free Plan | New customer free plan / credits | Temporary / eligibility-based | ✕ | No inactivity sleep stated | New AWS customers can start at no cost under AWS Free Tier / Free Plan limits | Paid plan charges after credits/free usage depleted | Automated backups on paid/eligible configs | AWS regions | Testing traditional managed relational DBs | Trial / evaluation | ||||
| Paid-only DB | Scaler Pro | Paid only | No free plan | ✕ | No inactivity sleep stated; paid databases accrue charges while created | No free plan; Scaler Pro required for new databases | Resource-based Scaler Pro pricing by region/calculator | Plan-dependent | AWS/GCP regions | MySQL/Vitess with branching at scale | Production | ||||
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