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Convex free tier

TypeScript backend where database queries and server functions live together and update clients live.

Checked against Convex's official pages on 1 Nov 2026. Free tiers change, so confirm before you commit.

What Convex's free plan gives you

1M function calls, 0.5 GB database, 1 GB file storage and 1 GB bandwidth per month for up to 6 developers.

Convex free plan limits
Limit	Free plan
Function calls	1M / month
Database	0.5 GB
File storage	1 GB
Bandwidth	1 GB / month
Action compute	20 GB-hours
Deployments	40

The catch

Hard caps on the free plan: writes can fail once you hit them.

Pros and cons

Good

Live-updating queries
Type-safe end to end
Team up to 6 on free

Watch out

Only 1 GB bandwidth
Not SQL
Paid tier priced per developer

How to start on Convex

1
Run npm create convex@latest
2
Log in with GitHub when prompted
3
Write a query in convex/
4
Run npx convex dev
5
Call it from React with useQuery

Convex: questions

Is Convex free?

1M function calls, 0.5 GB database, 1 GB file storage and 1 GB bandwidth per month for up to 6 developers. Free plan ends: Never.

Does Convex need a credit card?

No, you can sign up for Convex's free plan without a card.

What is the catch with Convex's free plan?

Hard caps on the free plan: writes can fail once you hit them.

What are the best free alternatives to Convex?

Cloudflare D1, Firebase (Spark plan), Turso. Compare their limits on this page or open each one for details.

Alternatives to Convex

Cloudflare D1
Serverless SQLite
100
SQLite databases that run alongside Cloudflare Workers on the free Workers plan.
Databases
10
Storage
5 GB total
Row reads
5M / day
The catch: Only 100,000 row writes per day, which resets daily.
No cardNo end date
Paid from $5/mo (Workers Paid)
Firebase (Spark plan)
BaaS + hosting
100
Google's app backend: static hosting, auth and Firestore on the free Spark plan.
Hosting
10 GB storage, 360 MB/day transfer
Firestore
1 GiB, 50K reads / 20K writes per day
Realtime DB
1 GB, 100 connections
The catch: Cloud Functions, App Hosting and (for new projects) Cloud Storage need the pay-as-you-go Blaze plan.
No cardNo end date
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Turso
Edge SQLite
92
Hosted SQLite (libSQL) with many small databases and edge replicas.
Databases
100
Storage
5 GB
Row reads
500M / month
The catch: Only one day of point-in-time restore on the free plan.
No cardNo end date
Paid from $4.99/mo (Developer)
Upstash
Serverless Redis
92
Serverless Redis you call over HTTP, priced per request.
Data size
250 MB
Commands
500K / month
Bandwidth
10 GB / month
The catch: 500K commands a month runs out fast if you poll or cache every request.
No cardNo end date
Paid from $10/mo (Fixed 250 MB (or pay as you go $0.20 per 100K commands))
MongoDB Atlas
Managed MongoDB
87
Hosted MongoDB with a free shared cluster that has no end date.
Storage
512 MB
Throughput
Up to 100 ops/sec
Connections
500
The catch: 512 MB fills quickly, and there is a 100 ops/sec cap.
No cardNo end dateSleeps when idle
Paid from Usage-based
Neon
Serverless Postgres
87
Serverless Postgres with branching that scales to zero when unused.
Compute
100 CU-hours / project / month, up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM)
Storage
1 GB per project, 20 GB total
Projects
100
The catch: Only 1 GB of storage per project.
No cardNo end dateSleeps when idle
Paid from Usage-based

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