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Xata pricing: tiers, seat costs, and hidden fees

Short answer

Branch-friendly Postgres priced by instance size and storage GB. Open-source self-hosted is free; managed cloud starts at $9 per Micro instance.

Last verified: 2026-05-17 Model: month Official pricing

Public pricing tiers

TierMonthlyAnnual monthly equivalentNotes
Open Source $0 month $0 month Self-hosted on Kubernetes. Copy-on-write branches, scale-to-zero.
Standard Micro $9 month $9 month <=2 vCPU, 1GB RAM. Hourly billing + storage.
Standard Medium $35 month $35 month <=2 vCPU, 4GB RAM.
Standard Large $70 month $70 month 2 vCPU, 8GB RAM.
Standard 4XLarge $561 month $561 month 16 vCPU, 64GB RAM.

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$9 / month

For 10 seats on Standard Micro, current public pricing implies $9 per month when annual pricing is available, or $9 month-to-month.

Hidden fees and quote risks

  • General Purpose EBS storage at $0.17/GB/month, Premium NVMe at $0.30/GB/month.
  • $100 trial credit only lasts 14 days; production usage charges immediately after.
  • Observability and anonymization features ride along with Standard tier.

Enterprise notes

Enterprise adds BYOC (AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner), white-label, Solution Architect, custom SLAs.

Closest alternatives

Other managed postgres tools buyers shortlist when they compare Xata.

Neon Serverless postgres
Supabase Backend-as-a-service
PlanetScale Managed database

Sources

Pricing changes frequently. Confirm directly with the vendor before purchase.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Xata cost?

Xata pricing depends on its Hourly compute + per-GB storage. The page lists public tiers and flags custom or usage-based items that require vendor confirmation.

What is the main hidden fee risk for Xata?

General Purpose EBS storage at $0.17/GB/month, Premium NVMe at $0.30/GB/month.

Which Xata alternatives should buyers compare?

Neon, Supabase, PlanetScale are the closest alternatives most procurement teams compare against Xata.