Databases Software Pricing (2026)
What 19 databases tools actually charge, taken from their own pricing pages and re-checked as they change. Cheapest first.
Pricing verified Sep 30, 2026
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Databases pricing at a glance
| Product | Entry price | Plans | Free plan | Free trial |
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| Redis Cloud | $0/mo | 3 | Yes | Yes |
| MongoDB Atlas | $0/mo | 4 | Yes | No |
| Xata | $0/mo | 3 | Yes | Yes |
| CockroachDB | $0/mo | 2 | No | Yes |
| Upstash | $0/mo | 4 | Yes | Yes |
| SingleStore | $0/mo | 4 | Yes | Yes |
| Aiven | $5/mo | 6 | Yes | Yes |
| PlanetScale | $5/mo | 2 | No | No |
| Turso | $5/mo | 5 | Yes | No |
| Airtable | $24/mo | 4 | Yes | Yes |
| Appwrite | $25/mo | 3 | Yes | No |
| Convex | $25/mo | 3 | Yes | No |
| Nhost | $25/mo | 4 | Yes | No |
| Supabase | $25/mo | 4 | Yes | No |
| MotherDuck | $250/mo | 3 | Yes | Yes |
| ClickHouse | Custom | 3 | No | Yes |
| Firebase | Custom | 2 | Yes | No |
| InfluxDB | Custom | 5 | Yes | Yes |
| Neon | Custom | 3 | Yes | No |
Every databases tool we track, cheapest first
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Redis Cloud
Managed Redis from the source.
Redis Cloud plays the low-friction, land-and-expand game — dirt-cheap per-unit pricing and a free tier make it easy to say yes to instead of a per-seat competitor with a scary sticker price upfront. But the moment you need Enterprise-grade features or on-prem, they pull pricing behind a sales wall, which signals they're optimizing for volume in the self-serve middle market while still gatekeeping bigger accounts for custom deals.
Plans: Free $0/mo · Essentials $0/mo · Pro $0/mo
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MongoDB Atlas
Managed cloud database service.
MongoDB's undercutting itself at the low end with sub-cent hourly rates to hook indie devs and startups, while quietly pushing everyone toward Dedicated as the 'real' product — that's the tier built to compete with RDS and other managed database plays. Enterprise Advanced exists purely to capture large accounts who'd otherwise walk to Oracle or a self-hosted open-source stack, and hiding the price is a signal they're negotiating deal-by-deal rather than competing on rate card.
Plans: Free $0/mo · Flex $0/mo · Dedicated $0/mo · Enterprise Advanced Contact Sales
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Xata
Serverless data platform.
Sitting in the lean, usage-metered middle of the Postgres-platform pack — cheaper to start than fully managed premium players, but not free-forever like raw open source. They're courting devs who hate flat per-seat database pricing and want costs that scale with actual bytes stored rather than team size.
Plans: Open Source $0/mo · Xata Cloud $0/mo · BYOC Contact Sales
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CockroachDB
Distributed SQL that survives anything.
This isn't a budget play — usage-based vCPU pricing plus a premium Mission Critical tier signals they're chasing teams who need serious distributed-SQL muscle (multi-region, strong consistency) and are willing to pay for it, going head-to-head with Google Spanner and Yugabyte more than commodity Postgres hosting. The lack of a free plan reinforces that they're not fishing for hobbyists.
Plans: Standard $0/mo · Mission Critical $0/mo
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Upstash
Serverless Redis and Kafka.
Upstash plays the low-friction, developer-first budget option — a $0.2 entry point and a real free tier make it easy to try against Redis-as-a-service incumbents like Redis Enterprise Cloud or AWS ElastiCache, which don't offer anywhere near this granularity at the low end. It's not chasing enterprise budgets with the base pricing; the Enterprise tier and Prod Pack are bolted on afterward for teams that need compliance and SLAs once they're already hooked.
Plans: Free $0/mo · Pay as You Go $0/mo · Fixed 250MB $10/mo · Enterprise Contact Sales
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SingleStore
Real-time unified database.
At under a dollar an hour to start, SingleStore undercuts the sticker shock of enterprise data warehouses while still competing for the same real-time analytics and HTAP workloads as Snowflake or ClickHouse Cloud. They're positioning as the affordable entry point for teams that want fast SQL analytics without committing to a big upfront platform spend, while reserving custom/enterprise pricing for the buyers who need compliance and dedicated infrastructure.
Plans: Shared $0/mo · Standard $0/mo · Enterprise $1/mo · Standard Contact Sales
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Aiven
Managed open-source data platforms.
Aiven sits mid-to-premium compared to raw cloud-native options like RDS or Cloud SQL, trading lower absolute cost for a fully managed, multi-cloud abstraction layer. They're chasing teams who want Postgres (or Kafka, ClickHouse, etc.) without being locked into one hyperscaler, not teams purely hunting rock-bottom price.
Plans: Free $0/mo · Developer $5/mo · Hobbyist $12/mo · Startup $75/mo · Business $180/mo · Premium $270/mo
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Turso
Edge database based on libSQL.
Turso's entry tiers undercut most managed Postgres/MySQL competitors, positioning it as the affordable edge-database option for indie devs and small teams. But the leap to $499 for Pro signals they're not trying to own the mid-market — they'd rather push serious usage straight to custom Enterprise deals.
Plans: Free $0/mo · Developer $5/mo · Scaler $29/mo · Pro $499/mo · Enterprise Contact Sales
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Airtable
Spreadsheet-database hybrid for teams.
Airtable sits at the premium end of the no-code database/workflow category — pricier per seat than a Google Sheets or Notion-style tool, but cheaper than heavyweight platforms like Smartsheet Enterprise or dedicated app-building tools. They're chasing teams that have outgrown spreadsheets and need real relational data structure but don't want to hire developers.
Plans: Free $0/mo per seat · Team $24/mo per seat · Business $54/mo per seat · Enterprise Scale Contact Sales
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Appwrite
Open-source backend as a service.
Plans: Free $0/mo · Pro $25/mo · Enterprise Contact Sales
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Convex
Reactive backend for app developers.
Convex is cheap at the entry point to hook indie devs and small teams, but that $2,500/mo floor for Business & Enterprise puts them in premium territory once you're a real company — there's almost nothing in between. They're winning developers early and betting that switching costs keep them once usage scales into serious money.
Plans: Free & Starter $0/mo · Professional $25/mo · Business & Enterprise $2500/mo
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Nhost
Open-source Firebase alternative with GraphQL.
Against Supabase and Firebase, Nhost's free and Pro tiers are competitively priced and aimed at the same indie-dev and small-team audience. But that $599 Team tier is a big leap with no clear mid-tier bridge, which makes them look thinner in the mid-market compared to competitors who ladder pricing more gradually before enterprise.
Plans: Starter $0/mo · Pro $25/mo · Team $599/mo · Enterprise Contact Sales
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Supabase
Open source Firebase alternative.
Supabase undercuts Firebase and traditional managed Postgres on entry price, using the free tier and cheap Pro plan to hook indie devs and startups away from rolling their own infra. The jump to $599 for Team is steep though, positioning it less as 'affordable at scale' and more as a wedge to land small teams cheap then monetize hard once they're locked into Postgres, Auth, and Storage.
Plans: Free $0/mo · Pro $25/mo · Team $599/mo · Enterprise Contact Sales
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MotherDuck
Serverless DuckDB analytics.
Sitting in the middle of the modern data warehouse pack — pricier than pure open-source DuckDB setups you'd self-host, but cheaper and lighter-weight than Snowflake or BigQuery for teams that don't need massive distributed compute. They're courting teams who want warehouse power without warehouse overhead or price tags.
Plans: Lite $0/mo · Business $250/mo · Enterprise Contact Sales
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ClickHouse
Fast open-source OLAP database.
ClickHouse Cloud sits in the middle-to-premium range for analytical databases — pricier per-unit than running open-source ClickHouse yourself on raw cloud infra, but cheaper than Snowflake or BigQuery for high-throughput analytical workloads at scale. They're going after teams that have outgrown Postgres/MySQL for analytics and are comparing managed OLAP options rather than competing on being the budget pick.
Plans: Basic Contact Sales · Scale Contact Sales · Enterprise Contact Sales
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Firebase
Backend-as-a-service from Google.
Firebase competes on accessibility, not price predictability — it's cheap to start and can get genuinely expensive at scale, which puts it in the middle of the pack once you're a real business. They're clearly optimizing to win developers early (solo devs, startups, hackathons) and bet that migration costs keep you there once you're big.
Plans: No-cost (Spark plan) $0/mo · Pay as you go (Blaze plan) Contact Sales
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InfluxDB
Time series database platform.
They're playing a barbell strategy: free enough at the bottom to compete with any time-series DB for developer mindshare, but custom-quoted and premium at the top where they compete with Datadog, TimescaleDB Enterprise, and cloud-native monitoring stacks. The usage pricing on Serverless is aggressive on paper ($250 free credit, cheap per-MB rates) but the real money is clearly in locking in enterprise accounts that need dedicated infrastructure.
Plans: Cloud Serverless $0/mo · InfluxDB 3 Core $0/mo · InfluxDB 3 Enterprise Contact Sales · Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Contact Sales · Cloud Dedicated Contact Sales
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Neon
Serverless Postgres.
Neon isn't competing on a low headline price — it's competing on architecture, pitching serverless Postgres with instant branching to teams who'd otherwise run RDS or self-hosted Postgres. The usage-based model makes it cheap to start but hard to benchmark against flat-rate competitors like Supabase, which puts pressure on Neon to prove the 'typical spend' numbers hold up in practice.
Plans: Free $0/mo · Launch Contact Sales · Scale Contact Sales
Databases Software Pricing FAQ
- How much does databases software cost?
- Entry prices run from $0/mo (Redis Cloud) to $250/mo (MotherDuck), with a median entry price of $5/mo across the 15 priced products we track.
- What is the cheapest databases software?
- Redis Cloud has the lowest entry price of the databases software we track, at $0/mo. MongoDB Atlas ($0/mo) and Xata ($0/mo) are next. Redis Cloud and MongoDB Atlas are free to start on.
- Is there free databases software?
- Yes — Redis Cloud, MongoDB Atlas, Xata and 13 more offer a free plan.
- How is databases software usually priced?
- 11 of the 19 databases tools we track use usage based pricing, against 7 on hybrid and 1 on per seat.