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Database & backend price cliffs

Where database and backend free plans end and the paid price starts. 11 platforms so far.

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.

Supabase

$0Free+$25+$574

Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0

Free to Pro is +$25 a month, and the Free plan pauses a project after a week without activity.

Neon

$0FreemeteredLaunchmeteredScale

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.

Appwrite

$0Free+$10+$15?Enterprise

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

$0Free+$25+$2475

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

$0Free (M0)+$8+$48.94

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

+$10+$24+$11

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

$0Free+$5+$20+$392?Enterprise

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

$0Trial+$9+$9+$17+$35+$70

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

+$9+$17+$35+$70+$140

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

$0Starter+$25+$574?Enterprise

Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Starter: $0Starter: $0Starter: $0

Free to Pro is +$25 a month. Team is $599 a month.

Contentful

$0Free+$300?Enterprise

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.

All plans

PlatformPlanBase feeCommercial use
SupabaseFree$0no restriction found on the page we read
SupabasePro$25/mono restriction found on the page we read
SupabaseTeam$599/mono restriction found on the page we read
NeonFree$0no restriction found on the page we read
NeonLaunch (usage-based)meteredno restriction found on the page we read
NeonScale (usage-based)meteredno restriction found on the page we read
AppwriteFree$0no restriction found on the page we read
AppwriteStart$10/mono restriction found on the page we read
AppwritePro$25/mono restriction found on the page we read
AppwriteEnterprisenot capturedno restriction found on the page we read
ConvexFree & Starter$0no restriction found on the page we read
ConvexProfessional$25/mono restriction found on the page we read
ConvexBusiness & Enterprise$2500/mono restriction found on the page we read
MongoDB AtlasFree (M0)$0no restriction found on the page we read
MongoDB AtlasFlex$8/mono restriction found on the page we read
MongoDB AtlasDedicated (M10)$56.94/mono restriction found on the page we read
PlanetScalePostgres single-node$5/mono restriction found on the page we read
PlanetScalePostgres HA$15/mono restriction found on the page we read
PlanetScaleVitess MySQL (HA)$39/mono restriction found on the page we read
PlanetScalePostgres Metal$50/mono restriction found on the page we read
TursoFree$0no restriction found on the page we read
TursoDeveloper$5/mono restriction found on the page we read
TursoScaler$25/mono restriction found on the page we read
TursoPro$417/mono restriction found on the page we read
TursoEnterprisenot capturedno restriction found on the page we read
XataTrial$0no restriction found on the page we read
XataMicro$9/mono restriction found on the page we read
XataSmall$18/mono restriction found on the page we read
XataMedium$35/mono restriction found on the page we read
XataLarge$70/mono restriction found on the page we read
XataXLarge$140/mono restriction found on the page we read
Crunchy BridgeHobby-0$9/mono restriction found on the page we read
Crunchy BridgeHobby-1$18/mono restriction found on the page we read
Crunchy BridgeHobby-2$35/mono restriction found on the page we read
Crunchy BridgeHobby-4$70/mono restriction found on the page we read
Crunchy BridgeStandard-4$70/mono restriction found on the page we read
Crunchy BridgeStandard-8$140/mono restriction found on the page we read
Crunchy BridgeStandard-16$280/mono restriction found on the page we read
NhostStarter$0no restriction found on the page we read
NhostPro$25/mono restriction found on the page we read
NhostTeam$599/mono restriction found on the page we read
NhostEnterprisenot capturedno restriction found on the page we read
ContentfulFree$0no restriction found on the page we read
ContentfulLite$300/mono restriction found on the page we read
ContentfulEnterprisenot capturedno restriction found on the page we read

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