Free Database Services

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Name	Type	Storage	Free Tier Limits (per month)
Supabase	Postgres	500MB	5GB out
Tembo	Postgres	10GB	1TB out
EdgeDB	EdgeDB (Postgres)	1GB	2GiB network egress
MongoDB Atlas	MongoDB	5GB	10GB in, 10GB out
Neon	Serverless Postgres	512MB	?
CockroachDB	Serverless Postgres	10GB	50M Request Units
Xata	Serverless Postgres	-	15GB I/O+storage
Cloudflare D1	Serverless D1 (SQLite)	5GB	5M reads/day, 100k writes/day
Turso	LibSQL (SQLite)	9GB	1B reads, 25M writes
Vercel Postgres	Serverless Postgres	256MB	60 hours compute time
Nile	Serverless Postgres	1GB	50M query tokens
Upstash	Serverless Redis	256MB	10k cmds/day, 50GB in/out
Deno KV	Deno KV	1GB	450k reads, 300k writes
MotherDuck	DuckDB	10GB	10 CU Hours Per Month

Supabase

Pricing

• 2 Core shared CPU, 1 GB RAM
• 2 active free projects, as many as you want paused projects (500MB storage per project)
• Pausing after 1 week of inactivity
• PostgREST, pg_graphql
• Additional features
  • Auth: 50,000 monthly active users
  • Storage: 1GB, 50MB max file size
  • Realtime: Postgres Changes, 200 Concurrent Peak Connections, 2M Messages/Month
  • Edge Functions: 500,000 Invocations, 10MB Script size, 10 Functions

Tembo

Pricing

• 3 Free Instances
• 0.25 vCPU & 1 GB Memory
• Unlimited Reads/Writes
• PostgREST, pg_graphql
• User Defined Applications - deploy containers next to your Postgres instance

EdgeDB

Pricing

• Free tier instance includes:
  • 1/4 compute unit (1/16 vCPU, 1/2 GiB RAM)
  • 1GiB disk space
  • 2GiB network egress

MongoDB Atlas

Pricing | Free Shared Limitations

• 512MB to 5GB of storage
• You can deploy at most one M0 free cluster per Atlas project
• 250 Projects per Atlas User (source)

Neon

Pricing | Plans

• 1 project w/10 branches
• 0.25 vCPU, 1GB RAM
• Always-available primary branch compute, 5 compute hours (20 active hours)/month on branch computes
• Autosuspend: Compute scales to zero after 5 minutes of inactivity
• Region availability: The Free Tier is available in all supported regions
• Advanced Postgres features: Connection pooling, logical replication, and 60+ Postgres extensions

CockroachDB

Pricing | Plan a CockroachDB Serverless Cluster

• All cluster activity, including SQL queries, bulk operations, and background jobs, is measured in Request Units, or RUs. An RU is an abstracted metric that represents the compute and I/O resources used by a database operation. In addition to queries that you run, background activity, such as automatic statistics to optimize your queries or connecting a changefeed to an external sink, also consumes RUs

Xata

Pricing | Pricing (Docs)

• The storage size represents the amount of data stored in the transactional database. Database storage in Xata encompasses not only disk space but also I/O rates and compute resources. The listed price per GB combines the costs of the three components allocated to each workspace
• Free plan: 15 parallel requests (6 primary + 9 from replicas) to the database
• Free tier: Limited to 75 requests/second (qps)
• Additional Features
  • Elasticsearch integration
  • File attachments (2GB, S3 and Cloudflare's CDN)
  • Image transformations (10k)
  • 250 AI-powered questions per workspace
  • Free plan users can request data restoration from a daily backup through our support team

Cloudflare D1

Pricing

• There are no data transfer (egress) or throughput (bandwidth) charges for data accessed from D1.

Turso

Pricing | Usage & Billing

• Up to 500 databases
• Up to 3 locations
• Point in time restore (1 day)
• Unlimited Embedded Replicas
• Database Branching

Vercel Postgres

Pricing | Limits

• 1 database
• 60 hours compute time (per month)
• Databases for those on Hobby plans are configured with 0.25 logical CPUs
• Compute time is calculated based on the active time of your database, multiplied by the number of CPUs available
• If there are no incoming requests for a specified duration (default 300 seconds), the database scales down to zero, effectively pausing compute time billing
• Each Postgres database uses 33MB of storage space, even before any data is stored

Nile

Pricing

• Query tokens are abstract units of CPU and memory used when queries are executed on the serverless compute
  • Reading one row of 1024 bytes - ~680K query tokens for 1M queries
  • Writing one row of 1024 bytes - ~1.46M query tokens for 1M queries
  • Scanning 1000 rows of 1024 bytes, return 1 - ~9M query tokens for 1M queries
• Unlimited number of databases
• Unlimited number of tenant DBs

Upstash

Pricing

• 1,000 Max commands per second
• 10,000 Daily command limit
• 1MB Max request size
• 100MB Max record size
• Persistence
• REST API
• Global replication: Free tier allows max one read replica

Deno KV

Deno KV | Deno Deploy Pricing

• Can connect to KV from outside of Deno Deploy
• 450,000 KV read units/mo (4kb)
• 300,000 KV write units/mo (1kb)
• 1 DB region

MotherDuck

Pricing