6 free alternatives to Supabase

8base's free plan gives you a GraphQL backend, serverless functions, CLI access, community support, deployment, asset storage, auth, custom functions, and GraphQL subscriptions. It also includes 1 team member, 1 frontend app per project, up to 2,500 database rows, 0.5 GB of files, 1 GB-hour of serverless compute, 2 GB per month of bandwidth, 100,000 GraphQL API calls, 100,000 subscription events, and support for up to 5 client app users. Its main advantage over Supabase is the built-in app-platform workflow with frontend hosting and GraphQL-first development. It falls short on scale, especially database rows, bandwidth, and active users. Switch here if you want a more app-builder-oriented free stack and your project is still very small.

• Beats Supabase: Built-in frontend app hosting and GraphQL app-builder workflow
• Falls short: Much lower storage, bandwidth, and user scale
• Who should switch: Switch if you want a frontend-plus-backend free plan and can stay within small GraphQL and hosting limits.

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Neon Serverless Postgres free includes up to 100 projects, 100 CU-hours per project each month, 0.5 GB storage per project, databases up to 2 CU with 8 GB RAM, Neon Auth for up to 60K MAUs, 6-hour time travel and restores, autoscaling, branching, read replicas, and unlimited team members. Compared with Supabase, it gives you far more project count and stronger database workflow features like branching and restore windows. It falls short on breadth, since it is mainly a database platform rather than an all-in-one backend with storage, functions, realtime, and integrated APIs. Choose it if your priority is Postgres development and team workflows rather than a bundled backend suite.

• Beats Supabase: Far more projects plus database branching and restore features
• Falls short: No bundled backend stack like storage, functions, or realtime
• Who should switch: Switch if you mainly need managed Postgres with strong database workflow tools.

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Appwrite's free tier includes 5 GB API bandwidth per month, 2 GB storage, 750K executions, 75K monthly active users, community support, 1 database, 1 bucket, and 2 functions per project. It also allows 15-minute build timeouts, pauses free projects after 1 week of inactivity, and limits you to 2 projects. Against Supabase, its biggest advantage is the higher included execution allowance and a simpler cap set for app backends. It falls short on file storage and overall project flexibility, especially because Supabase includes more free storage, more active projects, and broader integrated platform features. Pick Appwrite if you want an app backend with a clear free execution ceiling.

• Beats Supabase: Higher free execution allowance for backend workloads
• Falls short: Less storage and fewer active projects
• Who should switch: Switch if your free-tier bottleneck is function or execution volume more than storage.

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Convex's free Starter plan includes access for 1 to 6 developers, file storage, text search, vector search, crons, auth, Node.js actions, a health and insights dashboard, preview deployments, selectable data region, serverless deployment type, S16 deployment class, 1,000 concurrent sessions, 16 concurrent queries, 64 concurrent actions, 1M function calls per month, 20 GB-hours of action compute, 0.5 GB database storage, 1 GB file storage, 0.5 GB search storage, 1 GB database I/O, 3,000 search query-GBs, and 1 GB data egress. It beats Supabase on included function calls and reactive app workflow features like crons and search. It falls short on raw database and traffic headroom, since Supabase gives more egress and more overall backend breadth. Switch if you want a TypeScript-first backend and your free usage is mostly compute and app logic.

• Beats Supabase: More free function calls and TypeScript-first backend workflow
• Falls short: Less egress and less general backend breadth
• Who should switch: Switch if your app lives in Convex-style backend code and you want more free compute allowance.

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Amazon Aurora DSQL's free tier gives you the first 100,000 DPUs free each month and 1 GB of storage free each month, with the free tier applied automatically to your bill and scoped per management account under AWS Organizations. Its main advantage over Supabase is that it is a database-only option with monthly usage credits and no app-layer extras to manage. It falls short on developer convenience and bundled features, since it does not include auth, storage, realtime, or edge functions. Choose it if you only need serverless SQL storage and want a minimal database bill to start.

• Beats Supabase: Database-only free usage credits with monthly reset
• Falls short: No bundled auth, storage, realtime, or functions
• Who should switch: Switch if you just need a managed SQL database and do not need a full backend platform.

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Upstash's free tier includes 1 database, 256 MB data size, 500K monthly commands, 10,000 max commands per second, 10 MB max request size, 100 MB max record size, 10 GB monthly bandwidth, 1 index, and 10K documents per index, with community support and free bandwidth usage. It is the best fit when you want a very small, serverless data layer with no credit card required. Compared with Supabase, it is much narrower, but it can be easier to adopt for cache, session, queue, or key-value use cases. It falls short on relational database features and full backend tooling, so it is not a drop-in match for an app platform. Switch if your workload is simple data access and command volume, not a full Postgres backend.

• Beats Supabase: No-card start and a very lightweight serverless data layer
• Falls short: Not a full relational backend platform
• Who should switch: Switch if you need a small serverless data store instead of a full backend platform.

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