{
  "slug": "pocketbase",
  "name": "PocketBase",
  "url": "https://pocketbase.io",
  "cat": "backend",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Single-binary Go backend on SQLite",
  "price": "Free and MIT-licensed. You pay only for a host — roughly $4-6/mo on Hetzner, Fly.io or a small VPS.",
  "tier": "free",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "One executable containing an embedded SQLite database, REST API, realtime subscriptions, email and OAuth2 authentication, file storage and an admin dashboard. Extensible through Go or JavaScript hooks. Still pre-1.0 at the v0.39 series, but widely run in production on a single small server.",
  "why": "Zero cloud bill, zero vendor account, and the entire backend is one file you can copy onto a $5 VPS. Ideal when you want the code and the data to be genuinely yours with no pausing rules.",
  "warn": "<b>Single node only</b> — no horizontal scaling and no managed backups, so you own uptime, patching and disk. Pre-1.0 means occasional breaking changes between minor releases.",
  "install": "Download the binary, then run ./pocketbase serve",
  "category": {
    "key": "backend",
    "name": "Databases & backend",
    "desc": "Where your data lives. Free-tier pausing behaviour is the field to read.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://pocketbase.io/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T22:10:46.578+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}