Supabase
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Free to Pro is +$25 a month, and the Free plan pauses a project after a week without activity.
Where does the price jump?
Free tiers end somewhere. Some end at a usage limit, some end the moment you run an ad or take a payment. CliffMap draws each platform’s steps and shows which plans you are allowed to use.
All 21 platforms, one chart each
Choose what the project will do:
Pick a use. Plans the vendor’s own terms forbid for it turn grey and dashed. “Unknown” means we have not found a restriction in the page we read, not that none exists. Heights use a square-root scale so $5 and $599 both show.
Neon
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Free has no fixed fee; Launch and Scale have no fixed fee either, so the “cliff” is metered cost: $0.106 per CU-hour on Launch, $0.222 on Scale, and $0.35 per GB-month.
Vercel
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Hobby: $0Pro: $20/mo (first step)Pro: $20/mo (first step)
Any site that earns money, including through ads, must be on Pro, so the real first step is $0 to $20 a month.
Netlify
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Credits, not bandwidth, are the limit: 300 on Free, 1,000 on Personal, 3,000+ on Pro. Enterprise is custom-priced; Netlify publishes no figure for it.
Render
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Hobby: $0Hobby: $0Hobby: $0
Workspace fee steps $0, $25, $499 a month before any compute is billed. Free instances are not for production applications, per Render’s docs — its terms set no personal-use limit.
Railway
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free trial: $0Free trial: $0Free trial: $0
The fee is also usage credit: $5 or $20 a month buys the same amount of usage; going past it bills extra.
Cloudflare Pages
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Pro: $20/mo (first step)
Builds step 500, 5,000, 20,000 by plan. Pro is $20 a month and Business $200, both billed annually; bandwidth is unlimited on every plan.
Heroku
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Eco: $5/moEco: $5/moEco: $5/mo
No free tier since 28 November 2022. The cheapest dyno is $5 a month and sleeps; the cheapest always-on dyno is $7. Postgres adds from $5 a month.
Fly.io
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Trial: $0Trial: $0Trial: $0
No plan fee and no free tier. A 256 MB Machine running all month is $2.19 in the cheapest regions, and a bill under $5 is waived — so one small Machine is effectively free, but nothing is included.
DigitalOcean App Platform
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Static: $0Static: $0Static: $0
Static sites are free (3 apps, 1 GiB outbound each). The first paid container is $5 a month; dedicated CPUs start at $29. Billed per container, per second.
Appwrite
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Free to Pro is +$25 a month per project. A new Start plan from $10 a month exists in selected regions; the old $599 Scale plan is retired.
Convex
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free & Starter: $0Free & Starter: $0Free & Starter: $0
Free to Professional is +$25 a month per developer — the seat count, not the project, is what multiplies. Business starts at a $2,500 monthly minimum.
MongoDB Atlas
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free (M0): $0Free (M0): $0Free (M0): $0
Free to Flex is about +$8 a month at the lowest band, capped at $30. Dedicated starts at $56.94 a month for M10. M2 ($9) and M5 ($25) still appear on the pricing page but are no longer supported, per the docs.
PlanetScale
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Postgres single-node: $5/moPostgres single-node: $5/moPostgres single-node: $5/mo
No free tier — the Hobby plan was retired in April 2024. Postgres starts at $5 a month for a single node, $15 for high availability; MySQL-compatible Vitess starts at $39. Storage, backups and egress are extra, and prices are quoted for AWS us-east-1 and vary by region.
Turso
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Free to Developer is +$4.99 a month on annual billing ($5.99 month-to-month). Turso announced in October 2026 that it is joining Supabase; pricing is unchanged so far.
Xata
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Trial: $0Trial: $0Trial: $0
No free plan on Xata Cloud — the old Free and $25 Pro plans are gone. Cloud is pay as you go from $9 a month for Micro, plus $0.28 per GB of storage. The open-source edition is free to self-host.
Crunchy Bridge
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Hobby-0: $9/moHobby-0: $9/moHobby-0: $9/mo
No free tier. Hobby clusters start at $9 a month; Standard starts at $70. Storage is $0.10 per GB a month on top, and prices are quoted for AWS East and vary by region.
Nhost
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Starter: $0Starter: $0Starter: $0
Free to Pro is +$25 a month. Team is $599 a month.
Contentful
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Free: $0
Free to Lite is +$300 a month — the steepest first step on this site. The plan formerly called Basic is now Lite.
Strapi
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Starter: $35/moStarter: $35/moStarter: $35/mo
Strapi Cloud starts at $35 a month per project and sleeps when idle; always-on starts at $90. The self-hosted Community edition is free under the MIT licence.
Cloudflare Workers
Cheapest plan not known to forbid this: Free: $0Free: $0Paid: $5/mo (first step)
Free to Paid is +$5 a month, and the $5 buys 10M requests a month. There is no charge for data transfer.
The rules that change the price
Commercial use
Vercel Hobby forbids any site that earns money. Cloudflare’s terms bar collecting card details on Free-service sites. Netlify and Railway state commercial use is allowed on free. Quotes, dated.
Supabase alternatives
What the other tracked databases charge, and where they step.
Vercel alternatives
Netlify, Render, Railway and Cloudflare Pages on the same chart.
Up to 3 sponsored cards per page, always labelled Sponsored, never ranked. First 20 vendors: 30 days free. Planned prices & waitlist