This document provides a comparison between hosted, serverless (no cost or management to spin down to zero) providers of SQL cloud databases.
- PlanetScale has been removed due to their ending of free plans.
- Render has been removed since their free plan is disabled after 30 days.
- Tembo has been removed since their free plan is disabled after 14 days.
- Nhost has been removed since they sporadically shut down active projects.
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| Dialect | Status | Cloud | Cnxn | OSS | Examples | Docs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora Serverless v2 (AWS)² | PostgreSQL / MySQL | GA | AWS | ||||
| Azure SQL Serverless | GA | Azure | |||||
| CockroachDB | Postgres compat. | GA | AWS / GCP | Pool | ✅ | Link | 🚀 |
| D1 (Cloudflare) | SQLite | GA | Cloudflare | HTTP | 🚫 | Link | 🚀 |
| Gel (fka EdgeDB) | PosgreSQL + EdgeQL | Early | AWS | ||||
| LiteFS | SQLite | GA (v0) | Fly.io | N/A | ✅ | Link | 🚀 |
| MotherDuck | DuckDB | ||||||
| Neon | PostgreSQL | GA | |||||
| Nile | PostgreSQL | Early | Pool | Link | 👍 | ||
| Prisma | Prisma ¹ | GA | Vultr | ✅ | Link | 🚀 | |
| Supabase | PostgreSQL | Pool / HTTP | 🚀 | ||||
| SurrealDB | SurrealQL (PSQL-ish) | ✅ | Link | 🚀 | |||
| Turso | SQLite | GA | ? | Embed + HTTP | ✅ | Link | 🚀 |
| Xata | PostgreSQL | Early |
- Prisma uses PostgreSQL but does not expose a database connection. It requires the Prisma client library.
- Unlike v1, Aurora Serverless v2 has a minimum and does not scale down to zero. However it is kept here since it is a common point of comparison.
Note that the "Free Plan" is intended to represent ongoing free resources i.e. not trials or sign-up credits.
| Free Plan | Bill Limits | First Paid Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora Serverless v2 (AWS) | None | $0.12 / ACU (~1 GB RAM) hour (varies by region) + $0.10 / GB-month storage + $0.20 / 1M reqs (non-optimized tier) | |
| Azure SQL Serverless | |||
| CockroachDB | 10 GiB + 50M RUs / mo. | Yes | $0.50 / GiB + $0.20 / 1M RUs (over free) |
| D1 (Cloudflare) | 5M RR / day + 100k RW / day + 5 GB | $5 / mo for 25B RR + 50M RW + 5GB, after $0.001 / M RR + $1.00 / M RW + $0.75 / GB-mo | |
| Gel | 1/16 vCPU, 1/2 GiB RAM, 1GB storage | $20 / mo for 1/8 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM, 10GiB storage, 100GiB transfer | |
| LiteFS (Fly.io) | 3 GB storage (including VM) + 160 GB egress (per ?) | ? | $0.15 per GB / mo + $0.02 per GB egress (over free, min $5 / mo) + optional $0.50/GB / mo for backups |
| MotherDuck | |||
| Neon | 500 MB, 190 CPU hours | $20 / mo = 10 GB, 300 CPU hours | |
| Nile | 1GB storage, 50M query tokens | $15 / mo = 5GB storage, 150M query tokens | |
| Prisma | 1 GB storage, 100k ops, 5MB response, 10s duration | Yes | $50/mo = 5 GB storage (+ $1.5 / GB), 100k ops (+ $8 / M), 10 MB response, 20s durtration |
| Supabase | 500 MB, 5GB bw, 50k MAU | $25 / mo = 8GB storage, 250 GB bw + $0.125 / GB + $0.09 / GB bw | |
| SurrealDB | 1 GB storage Limited compute node size | ||
| Turso | 500 DBs, 9 GB, 1B row reads | 10k DBs, 24 GB | |
| Xata | 15 GB storage | $20/mo = 15 GB storage + $2 / GB |
RUs = CPU + IOPs, mo = month, M = million, k = thousand, RR = rows read, RW = rows written, B = billion, bw = bandwidth
| DB Size | # DBs | Duration | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default / Free | Max / Paid | Default / Free | Max / Paid | ||
| Aurora Serverless v2 (AWS) | |||||
| Azure SQL Serverless | |||||
| CockroachDB | |||||
| D1 | 500 MB | 2 GB | 10 | 50k | 30 s |
| LiteFS | |||||
| MotherDuck | |||||
| Neon | |||||
| Prisma | 10 | 60 | See above | ||
| Supabase | |||||
| Turso | 9 GB | 24 GB | 500 | 10k | |
| Xata | Early |
| Ours | Forum | GitHub | SO | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora Serverless v2 (AWS) | |||||
| Azure SQL Serverless | |||||
| CockroachDB | Forum Slack | GitHub | SO | r/CockroachDB | |
| D1 (Cloudflare) | Forum Discord | Projects | SO | r/CloudFlare | |
| Gel | |||||
| LiteFS (Fly.io) | Fly.io Forum | LiteFS | |||
| MotherDuck | |||||
| Neon | |||||
| Nhost | |||||
| Nile | |||||
| Prisma | |||||
| Supabase | |||||
| Turso | Discord | GitHub | SO | ||
| Xata |
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