Xata

Branch-native Postgres with CoW forks

Free tier + paidDatabases & backendxata.io

What it is

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 it earns a slot

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.

Know before you commit

The old Xata serverless platform and its 15GB free tier are gone; the current Postgres cloud has no permanently free hosted plan, only pay-as-you-go compute or self-hosting.

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Pricing snapshot

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.

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Context: Branch-native Postgres with CoW forks. 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.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): 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.
Watch out for: The old Xata serverless platform and its 15GB free tier are gone; the current Postgres cloud has no permanently free hosted plan, only pay-as-you-go compute or self-hosting.
Pricing: 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.
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