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Serverless Postgres with copy-on-write branches and scale-to-zero. Positioned as the cheapest pure-Postgres alternative to Neon and Supabase for cost-conscious teams. Distinctive for zero-copy branching (spinning up a dev branch of production data costs almost nothing). Restructured 2026 to pure pay-as-you-go pricing — no more $25/mo Pro subscription. Xata Cloud now bills purely on compute-hours ($0.012/hr micro instance minimum ~$9/mo always-on) + storage ($0.28/GB/mo). Open Source tier free (self-hosted). Popular with indie hackers, lean startups, and AI-agent platforms where every dollar of infra matters.
In other words, Xata is worth it for developers building modern serverless apps that want Postgres + copy-on-write branching + scale-to-zero — particularly if you're spawning many dev branches or running per-tenant databases for AI agents. Xata Cloud is pure pay-as-you-go starting at $9/mo for a micro instance running 24/7; storage adds $0.28/GB/mo. Open Source self-hosted is free. Very easy setup for TypeScript/Next.js developers. Native integrations with Vercel, Netlify, and popular JS frameworks. Downside: 2026 shift to pure pay-as-you-go surprised legacy customers who liked the predictable $25 Pro subscription, and smaller ecosystem than Supabase/Neon.
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Pay as you go
Varies by usage
RESOLVED 2026-08-12: Manually verified against xata.io/pricing. Xata fully restructured to pure pay-as-you-go pricing in 2026 — no more $25/mo Pro subscription. Current lineup: Open Source free (self-hosted), Xata Cloud PAYG ($0.012/hr per micro instance + $0.28/GB/mo storage), BYOC custom quote. Entry Price Monthly = $9 (cheapest realistic monthly = micro instance running 24/7 with no storage). Real-world production costs $300-400/mo per vendor calculator. Deleted the Jul 29 'Pro $25' snapshot (plan retired); fresh Aug 12 Xata Cloud $9 baseline added as Stable (a $25 fixed plan vs a $9 PAYG floor is apples-to-oranges, not a price cut). VERIFIED UNCHANGED 2026-08-20: PAYG rates re-confirmed exactly (srvrlss, softwares.com, vendor blog). Extra detail captured: small dev instance (2 vCPU / 2GB) $0.024/hr ≈ $18/mo, and EU regions carry a ~1.15x multiplier on US rates. VERIFIED UNCHANGED 2026-09-08 (daily refresh): rates re-confirmed a third time from the vendor pricing page plus srvrlss and FitGap — micro from ~$0.012/hr, storage $0.28/GB/mo billed by the minute and prorated per branch lifetime, compute scales to zero when idle, no per-user and no per-branch charges. Entry Price Monthly $9 still the correct floor. No price movement, no snapshot written. NEW DETAILS for the record: the published rate card now also exposes the top and middle of the compute ladder — source compute $0.768/hr for a 4xlarge instance and branch compute $0.048/hr per CU-equivalent — which is useful for the planned AI/usage calculator work since it gives a real per-hour ladder rather than a single entry point. Also note the free tier is now framed as a $100 onboarding credit that expires after 14 days, after which billing is pure usage; that is a meaningful tightening of the free offer even though no list price moved, and it is the kind of change worth a newsletter line under 'free tier erosion'. VERIFIED UNCHANGED 2026-09-18 (daily refresh): fourth consecutive confirmation. Micro $0.012/hr (~$9/mo always-on), storage $0.28/GB/mo prorated, scale-to-zero intact, EU ~1.15x multiplier restated (makerkit calculator, srvrlss, FitGap). Full instance ladder also re-confirmed: small $0.024/hr ≈ $17/mo, medium $0.048/hr ≈ $35/mo, large $0.096/hr ≈ $69/mo, xlarge $0.192/hr ≈ $138/mo. Entry Price Monthly $9 holds. No price movement, no snapshot written. MINOR TIER-TEXT DRIFT TO TIDY: our BYOC tier text says it is 'priced as % of Xata managed cloud spend', but as of 2026-09-06 the pricing page simply lists BYOC as quote-only, and BYOC now also covers Hetzner alongside AWS/Azure/GCP. Stored value is already 'custom' so no price field is affected; this is a Pricing Tiers wording fix, not a price change.
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Need Postgres with scale-to-zero + a free tier? Pick Neon. Full BaaS (auth + storage + database)? Supabase. Predictable flat-fee Postgres for small production? Render or Fly.io.
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| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Key limit |
|---|---|---|---|
Open Source | Free | Free | Self-hosted on your own infrastructure, community support, no branching/observability included |
Xata CloudEntry tier | $9 | $9 | Fully managed, pay-as-you-go: $0.012/hr per micro instance ($9/mo always-on) + $0.28/GB/mo storage; scale-to-zero + branching included; SOC 2 + GDPR |
BYOC | Custom | Custom | Your cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), 24/7 dedicated SE, SOC 2 + GDPR + BAA, priced as % of Xata managed cloud spend |
All tier prices verified September 18, 2026 · View source →
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- Is Xata worth it?
- Xata is worth it for developers building modern serverless apps that want Postgres + copy-on-write branching + scale-to-zero — particularly if you're spawning many dev branches or running per-tenant databases for AI agents. 28/GB/mo.
- What are the pricing tiers of Xata?
- Xata has 3 plans: Open Source (free), Xata Cloud ($9/mo), BYOC (free).
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