PocketBase pricing (2026)
Plans, free tier and how PocketBase's price stacks up against 14 other tools in Databases & backends. Verified from official pricing pages.
Current pricing
Free and open source (MIT); you pay only for your own server. No official hosting.
- Free tier
- Yes: free to self-host (no hosted plan)
- Value score
- 15 / 15
- Value rank
- #1 of 15 in Databases & backends
- Overall score
- 77 / 100
Sources: pocketbase.io · pocketbase.io/faq · github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase
How PocketBase's price compares in Databases & backends
Sorted by our pricing and free-tier score (out of 15), then overall score. Click a tool for its own pricing page.
| Tool | Value | Free tier | Score | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PocketBase(this page) | 15 | Yes | 77 | Free and open source (MIT); you pay only for your own server. No official hosting. |
| Cloudflare D1 | 15 | Yes | 75 | Workers Paid $5/mo account minimum: 25B rows read and 50M rows written/mo included (then $0.001/M reads, $1.00/M writes), 5 GB included then $0.75/GB-mo |
| Neon | 14 | Yes | 86 | Launch: usage-based, no monthly minimum ($0.106/CU-hour, $0.35/GB-month) |
| Turso | 14 | Yes | 77 | Developer $5.99/mo ($4.99 annual) |
| Supabase | 13 | Yes | 93 | Pro from $25/mo per org (includes $10 compute credit) |
| Prisma Postgres | 13 | Yes | 81 | Starter $10/mo (1M operations, then $8 per million; 10 GB, then $2/GB; spend limits); Pro $49/mo (10M ops, 50 GB); Business $129/mo (50M ops, 100 GB, HIPAA/SOC 2) |
| Upstash | 13 | Yes | 71 | Pay as you go: $0.20 per 100K commands |
| Convex | 12 | Yes | 84 | Professional $25/developer/mo; Starter $0 base plus pay-as-you-go |
| Appwrite | 12 | Yes | 80 | Pro from $25/mo per project (+$15/extra project); 200K MAU included, then $3 per 1,000 |
| Firebase | 12 | Yes | 77 | Blaze: pay as you go above free quotas |
| Nhost | 12 | Yes | 76 | Starter free (1 project). Pro from $25/mo with $15 compute credits included: 10 GB database (then $0.20/GB), 50 GB storage, 50 GB egress, daily backups. Team from $599/mo. Enterprise custom |
| Busabase | 12 | Yes | 66 | Open source self-hosted free; Cloud Free $0 (1 space, 3 seats, 5,000 records per space); paid from $10/seat/mo billed yearly ($120/seat/yr) |
| MongoDB Atlas | 11 | Yes | 76 | Flex $0.011/hr, about $8–$30/mo depending on ops/sec; Dedicated from $0.08/hr (M10, from ~$56.94/mo) |
| Xata | 10 | No | 71 | Xata Cloud pay as you go from $0.012/hr (micro, ~$9/mo) + $0.28/GB-month storage; no per-branch or per-seat fees; BYOC quoted |
| PlanetScale | 8 | No | 69 | From $5/mo (single-node Postgres PS-5); HA from $15/mo |
Cheaper or free alternatives to PocketBase
- Cloudflare D1
Value 15/15 · score 75
Yes: 5M rows read/day, 100K rows written/day, 5 GB total (500 MB per database, 10 databases)
Cloudflare D1 pricing →
Pricing history on PromptToProd
- Databases grows to 14 tools + full database guide for vibe-coded apps: Added · score 77 · Databases & backends
- Pricing last verified: Free and open source (MIT); you pay only for your own server. No official hosting.
- Started tracking PocketBase.
We re-check pricing pages regularly and log every change on the changelog.
FAQ
- How much does PocketBase cost in 2026?
- PocketBase pricing as of 2026-10-25: Free and open source (MIT); you pay only for your own server. No official hosting.. Plans change, so confirm on the official site.
- Is PocketBase free?
- Yes. PocketBase free tier: free to self-host (no hosted plan).
- Is PocketBase good value?
- PocketBase scores 15/15 on PromptToProd's pricing and free-tier criterion, #1 of 15 in Databases & backends on value, and 77/100 overall.
- What are cheaper or free alternatives to PocketBase?
- In Databases & backends, tools with a free tier and an equal or better pricing score include Cloudflare D1 (15/15, score 75).
- When was PocketBase pricing last checked?
- We last verified PocketBase's pricing on 2026-10-25 from its official pricing page and docs.
Read the full PocketBase review and score breakdown →
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