Neon
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Free has no fixed fee; Launch and Scale have no fixed fee either, so the “cliff” is metered cost: $0.106 per CU-hour on Launch, $0.222 on Scale, and $0.35 per GB-month.
Supabase alternatives
Supabase: Free to Pro is +$25 a month, and the Free plan pauses a project after a week without activity. Here are the other database and backend platforms we track (10 so far), each with its own steps.
Appwrite
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Free to Pro is +$25 a month per project. A new Start plan from $10 a month exists in selected regions; the old $599 Scale plan is retired.
Convex
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free & Starter: $0Free & Starter: $0Free & Starter: $0
Free to Professional is +$25 a month per developer — the seat count, not the project, is what multiplies. Business starts at a $2,500 monthly minimum.
MongoDB Atlas
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free (M0): $0Free (M0): $0Free (M0): $0
Free to Flex is about +$8 a month at the lowest band, capped at $30. Dedicated starts at $56.94 a month for M10. M2 ($9) and M5 ($25) still appear on the pricing page but are no longer supported, per the docs.
PlanetScale
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Postgres single-node: $5/moPostgres single-node: $5/moPostgres single-node: $5/mo
No free tier — the Hobby plan was retired in April 2024. Postgres starts at $5 a month for a single node, $15 for high availability; MySQL-compatible Vitess starts at $39. Storage, backups and egress are extra, and prices are quoted for AWS us-east-1 and vary by region.
Turso
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Free to Developer is +$4.99 a month on annual billing ($5.99 month-to-month). Turso announced in October 2026 that it is joining Supabase; pricing is unchanged so far.
Xata
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Trial: $0Trial: $0Trial: $0
No free plan on Xata Cloud — the old Free and $25 Pro plans are gone. Cloud is pay as you go from $9 a month for Micro, plus $0.28 per GB of storage. The open-source edition is free to self-host.
Crunchy Bridge
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Hobby-0: $9/moHobby-0: $9/moHobby-0: $9/mo
No free tier. Hobby clusters start at $9 a month; Standard starts at $70. Storage is $0.10 per GB a month on top, and prices are quoted for AWS East and vary by region.
Nhost
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Starter: $0Starter: $0Starter: $0
Free to Pro is +$25 a month. Team is $599 a month.
Contentful
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Free to Lite is +$300 a month — the steepest first step on this site. The plan formerly called Basic is now Lite.
Pick a use. Plans the vendor’s own terms forbid for it turn grey and dashed. “Unknown” means we have not found a restriction in the page we read, not that none exists. Heights use a square-root scale so $5 and $599 both show.
| Platform | Plan | Base fee | Commercial use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neon | Free | $0 | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Neon | Launch (usage-based) | metered | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Neon | Scale (usage-based) | metered | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Appwrite | Free | $0 | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Appwrite | Start | $10/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Appwrite | Pro | $25/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Appwrite | Enterprise | not captured | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Convex | Free & Starter | $0 | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Convex | Professional | $25/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Convex | Business & Enterprise | $2500/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| MongoDB Atlas | Free (M0) | $0 | no restriction found on the page we read |
| MongoDB Atlas | Flex | $8/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| MongoDB Atlas | Dedicated (M10) | $56.94/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| PlanetScale | Postgres single-node | $5/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| PlanetScale | Postgres HA | $15/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| PlanetScale | Vitess MySQL (HA) | $39/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| PlanetScale | Postgres Metal | $50/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Turso | Free | $0 | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Turso | Developer | $5/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Turso | Scaler | $25/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Turso | Pro | $417/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Turso | Enterprise | not captured | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Xata | Trial | $0 | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Xata | Micro | $9/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Xata | Small | $18/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Xata | Medium | $35/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Xata | Large | $70/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Xata | XLarge | $140/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Crunchy Bridge | Hobby-0 | $9/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Crunchy Bridge | Hobby-1 | $18/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Crunchy Bridge | Hobby-2 | $35/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Crunchy Bridge | Hobby-4 | $70/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Crunchy Bridge | Standard-4 | $70/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Crunchy Bridge | Standard-8 | $140/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Crunchy Bridge | Standard-16 | $280/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Nhost | Starter | $0 | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Nhost | Pro | $25/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Nhost | Team | $599/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Nhost | Enterprise | not captured | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Contentful | Free | $0 | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Contentful | Lite | $300/mo | no restriction found on the page we read |
| Contentful | Enterprise | not captured | no restriction found on the page we read |
Not a recommendation: features differ. This page prices only the steps. Supabase details.
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