About
Convex is a backend platform for building applications in TypeScript. It combines a reactive database, file storage, text search, vector search, auth, crons, webhooks, and Node.js actions in a single developer workflow. Backend code lives alongside application code and is typechecked, autocompleted, and used with generated APIs.
The free offering is the Free & Starter plan, which includes 1-6 developers, file storage, text search, vector search, crons, auth, Node.js actions, a health and insights dashboard, preview deployments, and a selectable data region. Resource limits on the free plan include 40 deployments, 1,000 concurrent sessions, 16 concurrent queries, 64 concurrent actions, 1M function calls per month, 20 GB-hours per month 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 per month, and 1 GB per month of data egress.
- Reactive database and realtime sync
- TypeScript backend development
- File storage and text search
- Vector search and webhooks
- Crons and Node.js actions
- 1M function calls per month
- 0.5 GB database storage
- 1 GB file storage
- 40 deployments
- Selectable data region
Free Tier Value
Convex’s Free & Starter plan is capped and pay-as-you-go beyond the included limits, so it is a free tier rather than an unbounded always-free plan. Using the page’s resource pricing, the free tier includes 1M function calls ($2.20/1M), 20 GB-hours action compute ($0.33/GB-hour), 0.5 GB database storage ($0.22/GB-mo), 1 GB file storage ($0.033/GB-mo), 0.5 GB search storage ($0.55/GB-mo), 1 GB database I/O ($0.22/GB), 3,000 search query-GBs ($0.11/1000), and 1 GB egress ($0.132/GB), which sums to about $1.10/month. Feature parity is set to 50 because the free tier excludes several Professional features such as log streaming, exception reporting, backups, custom domains, and higher limits.
What's included in the free tier
- Access for 1–6 developers.
- File storage included.
- Text search included.
- Vector search included.
- Crons included.
- Auth included.
- Node.js actions included.
- Health and insights dashboard included.
- Preview deployments included.
- Selectable data region included.
- 40 deployments maximum.
- 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 per month.
- 0.5 GB database storage total.
- 1 GB file storage total.
- 0.5 GB search storage total.
- 1 GB database I/O per month.
- 3,000 search query-GBs per month.
- 1 GB data egress per month.
See Convex pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Professional
- developers
- 1-20
- deployments
- 300
- concurrent sessions
- 10,000
- concurrent queries
- 256
- concurrent actions
- 512
- function calls
- 25M/month
- Everything in Free & Starter
- Developers (1-20)
- Log streaming
- Exception reporting
- HIPAA/SOC 2 reports
- Daily backups
- Custom domains
- Email support
Business & Enterprise
- deployments
- Unlimited
- deployment type
- Serverless & Dedicated
- deployment class
- Custom
- concurrent sessions
- Custom
- concurrent queries
- Custom
- concurrent actions
- Custom
- Everything in Professional
- Developers (50+)
- SAML/SSO
- Service SLAs
- High-scale dedicated deployments
- Custom MSA
- Volume pricing
Pricing extracted from Convex's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
