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  "slug": "electric",
  "name": "Electric (ElectricSQL)",
  "url": "https://electric.ax",
  "cat": "rt",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Postgres sync engine, read path",
  "price": "Cloud pay-as-you-go: $0/mo base, $1 per 1M writes, $0.10 per GB-month retention, with usage under $5/mo waived. Reads, egress, fan-out and concurrent users are free. Pro $249/mo; Scale $1,999/mo. Sync service is open source and self-hostable",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Sync engine that streams partial replicas of Postgres — called shapes — to clients over plain HTTP. It handles the read path only: your app writes through your own API and Electric fans the resulting changes out to every subscribed client. Now rebranded simply as Electric and positioned around collaborative multi-agent systems.",
  "why": "Turns an ordinary Postgres table into a live-updating client cache without rewriting your backend or adopting a proprietary database. Because reads and fan-out are free, a liveblog read by 50,000 people costs close to nothing.",
  "warn": "Read-path only — writes, conflict resolution and auth remain your problem, which catches out people expecting two-way sync. The project has moved domains from electric-sql.com to electric.ax and revised its pricing model more than once.",
  "install": "npm i @electric-sql/client",
  "category": {
    "key": "rt",
    "name": "Realtime, comments & collab",
    "desc": "Live updates, comment systems, video, community.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://electric.ax/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}