12 of the 16 databases we list have a free plan, confirmed on their own website. Here they are side by side.
Listed alphabetically. A tool is ranked by its reviews once it has 3.
| Tool | Reviews | Lowest paid plan | Free plan | Free trial | Public API | Runs on | Main features |
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| ReviewsNone yetWrite one for Aiven | Lowest paid plan$5per month, for PostgreSQLDeveloper, as of October 23, 2026 | Free planYes | Free trial30 days | Public APIYes | Runs onCLI | Main features
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AppwriteAn open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. | ReviewsNone yetWrite one for Appwrite | Lowest paid planSee plans | Free planYes | Free trialNot confirmed | Public APINot confirmed | Runs onNot confirmed | Main features
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| ReviewsNone yetWrite one for Convex | Lowest paid plan$25per developer per monthProfessional, as of October 20, 2026 | Free planYes | Free trialNot confirmed | Public APIYes | Runs onCLI | Main features
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MongoDB AtlasCloud document database with built-in resilience, scalability and enterprise-grade security | ReviewsNone yetWrite one for MongoDB Atlas | Lowest paid plan$0.08per hour for M10, from $56.94 per monthDedicated, as of October 19, 2026 | Free planYes | Free trialNot confirmed | Public APIYes | Runs onCLI | Main features
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MotherDuckFast, serverless analytics powered by DuckDB with dedicated compute for every user and every agent. | ReviewsNone yetWrite one for MotherDuck | Lowest paid plan$250per org per month plus usageBusiness, as of October 28, 2026 | Free planYes | Free trial7 days | Public APINot confirmed | Runs onNot confirmed | Main features
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| ReviewsNone yetWrite one for Neon | Lowest paid planSee plans | Free planYes | Free trialNot confirmed | Public APIYes | Runs onNot confirmed | Main features
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| PineconePinecone is a fully managed vector database built for AI. | ReviewsNone yetWrite one for Pinecone | Lowest paid plan$20per month, flatBuilder, as of October 28, 2026 | Free planYes | Free trial3 weeks | Public APIYes | Runs onTerminal | Main features
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Redis CloudFully-managed Redis with faster commands, more data structures, and real-time performance at scale. | ReviewsNone yetWrite one for Redis Cloud | Lowest paid planSee plans | Free planYes | Free trialNot confirmed | Public APINot confirmed | Runs onAWS, Azure, GCP | Main features
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SingleStoreThe real-time database for AI, apps and analytics. | ReviewsNone yetWrite one for SingleStore | Lowest paid planSee plans | Free planYes | Free trialYes | Public APIYes | Runs onAzure, Google Cloud | Main features
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SupabasePostgres development platform with auth, instant APIs, realtime, functions, storage and vectors | ReviewsNone yetWrite one for Supabase | Lowest paid plan$25per month, plus compute and usagePro, as of October 14, 2026 | Free planYes | Free trialNot confirmed | Public APINot confirmed | Runs onWeb, CLI | Main features
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TursoSQLite-based database architecture for a database per user, agent and tenant | ReviewsNone yetWrite one for Turso | Lowest paid planSee plans | Free planYes | Free trialNot confirmed | Public APIYes | Runs onCLI | Main features
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UpstashServerless data platform, one platform for all your data needs | ReviewsNone yetWrite one for Upstash | Lowest paid plan$0.2per 100K commandsPay as You Go, as of October 20, 2026 | Free planYes | Free trialNot confirmed | Public APIYes | Runs onCLI | Main features
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From each tool's own website. “Not confirmed” means we couldn't confirm it there, not that the tool doesn't have it. Each tool's page says when its facts were checked.
A tool is listed here only when we've confirmed on its own website that it has a free plan. Tools we couldn't confirm it for are left out, even if they may have it. Vendors can't pay for a place on this list. Add a tool we missed