Best Database as a Service Software 2026: 16 Tools Compared
Best Database as a Service Software 2026: 16 Tools Compared
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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.

Quick Picks

Best Value

Amazon RDS

From Free/varies

Best Free Tier

Aiven

Free plan available

Most Feature-Rich

Crunchy Bridge

Up to $7.7K/varies

Full Comparison Matrix

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