Best free databases with no credit card (2026) Every database below has a renewable free tier you can start using without entering a credit card. They are ranked by our free-value score, which weighs storage and compute allowances against the limits attached. We only list databases whose no-card free access is confirmed in our data.
How these scores work
No credit card required Ranked by free-value score. Every tier here renews rather than expiring.
# Service Main constraint Score 1 Turso Hosted SQLite/libSQL near the edge. 500M rows read/month 6.0/10 2 TiDB Cloud Starter PingCAP's TiDB Cloud Starter is a MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database with both row and columnar storage and a large always-free monthly allowance. 250M Request Units/month free 5.7/10 3 Tinybird Free Serverless managed ClickHouse with HTTP data ingest and SQL-published APIs, free forever with no time limit and no credit card. 1,000 API requests/day 5.3/10 4 Cloudflare D1 SQLite-backed database for Cloudflare Workers. 5M rows read / day 5.2/10 5 MongoDB Atlas Managed document database with free shared cluster option. 512 MB storage cap 4.9/10 6 Neon Serverless Postgres with branching and generous developer UX. 100 CU-hours/month per project 4.9/10 7 Nile Nile is Postgres re-engineered for B2B/SaaS multi-tenancy, letting you create unlimited free databases and tenants. 50M query tokens/month 4.9/10 8 Supabase Database, auth, storage, realtime, and edge functions. 500 MB database size 4.4/10 9 Aiven Free Plans Free $0/month managed single-node PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Valkey (Redis-compatible) plans on Aiven's open-source data platform. One service per type per org 4.3/10 10 Firebase / Firestore Realtime app database, auth, hosting, storage, and functions. Firestore 50K reads/day 4.2/10 11 Upstash | Redis Serverless Redis-compatible data store for hot state, queues, sessions, rate limits, and lightweight automation registries. 10 free databases 4.0/10 12 Upstash | Search Standalone managed search product combining full-text and semantic search over documents you index through the API. 20K queries/month 3.9/10 13 FalkorDB Cloud Fully managed in-memory graph database (Cypher/OpenCypher) with a no-card free tier on AWS or GCP. 100 MB RAM / graph dataset 3.5/10 14 Prisma Postgres Hosted Postgres built on unikernels integrated with Prisma ORM, free tier with 500MB storage and 5 databases, no credit card. 100,000 operations/month 3.5/10 15 SurrealDB Cloud Fully managed multi-model database (document, graph, vector, time-series) with an ACID free tier that gives 1 GB of storage free forever. 1 GB storage 3.2/10 16 InfluxDB Cloud Serverless Fully managed serverless time-series database (InfluxDB 3, Apache Arrow + Parquet) with a free tier for low-volume metrics and IoT workloads. 2 buckets 3.1/10 17 Neo4j AuraDB Free Fully managed cloud graph (Cypher) database with a free-forever tier for learning and prototyping, no credit card required. One instance only 3.1/10
One-time credits & programs Kept separate from the ranking above: these are trial credits or eligibility-gated programs that eventually run out or require qualification, not renewable free tiers.
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