Compare All Database as a Service Software 2026
Side-by-side comparison of 16 database as a service tools. Find the right fit for your team and budget.
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Database as a Service software pricing ranges from Free to $7.7K per user per month in 2026. The category average is $322/user/month. 13 of 16 tools offer free tiers.
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| Product | Starting Price | Popular Tier | Enterprise | Free Tier | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon RDS | Custom | Custom | Custom | No | See website for current tier pricing — will auto-populate on next extraction |
| Cloud Firestore | Free /varies | Free /varies | Free /varies | Yes | Small apps, prototypes, and development workloads within free quotas |
| Neon | Free /month | Free /month | Free /month | Yes | Prototypes and side projects |
| Redis Cloud | Free /MB | Free /MB | Free /MB | Yes | - |
| CockroachDB | Free /month | $0.18 /month | $0.60 /month | Yes | Smaller, bursty workloads |
| Amazon DynamoDB | Free /varies | $0.39 /varies | $0.78 /varies | Yes | Personal apps, prototypes, learning, and low-volume workloads using provisioned capacity on DynamoDB Standard table class |
| Railway (PostgreSQL) | Free /per month | $5 /per month | $20 /per month | Yes | - |
| PlanetScale | Free /month | $15 /month | $50 /month | Yes | Development |
| Turso | Free /month | $24.92 /month | $416.58 /month | Yes | Hobbyists and small projects |
| Supabase | Free /month | $25 /month | $599 /month | Yes | Hobby projects, prototypes, and simple websites |
| Convex | Free /month | $25 /month | $25 /month | Yes | - |
| MongoDB Atlas | Free /varies | $28.47 /varies | $56.94 /varies | Yes | Learning and exploring MongoDB in a cloud environment |
| Timescale (TimescaleDB Cloud) | $30 /month | $36 /month | $36 /month | No | - |
| Upstash (Redis/Kafka serverless) | Free /month | $200 /month | $1.5K /month | Yes | - |
| Aiven | Free /varies | $950 /varies | $1.9K /varies | Yes | Evaluation and small experiments with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, or Kafka |
| Crunchy Bridge | $9 /varies | $3.8K /varies | $7.7K /varies | No | Smallest dev/test workloads |
Category Summary
16
Products
$2
Avg Starting
$322
Avg Popular
13
Free Tiers