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  "slug": "xata",
  "name": "Xata",
  "url": "https://xata.io",
  "cat": "backend",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Branch-native Postgres with CoW forks",
  "price": "Xata Cloud is pay-as-you-go from about $0.012/hr compute plus $0.28/GB-mo storage; the micro instance works out around $9/mo. Self-hosted open source is free.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Vanilla Postgres 18 with copy-on-write branching: a branch of any size is created in seconds and stores only what changes. Idle branches hibernate and wake in about a second. Xata relaunched as a Postgres platform, replacing its earlier serverless data API product.",
  "why": "A branch per coding agent or preview deploy costs cents — Xata quotes a thousand branches for a dollar. Useful when you want agents experimenting against production-sized data without any risk to it.",
  "warn": "The old Xata serverless platform and its 15GB free tier are gone; the current Postgres cloud has <b>no permanently free hosted plan</b>, only pay-as-you-go compute or self-hosting.",
  "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://xata.io/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T22:10:46.578+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}