Our take
Pick Beekeeper Studio if developers who will stay on Community free while they run a first film query — then Indie at $9/mo yearly when they need JSON sidebar / import-export, not Supabase’s Free $0 hosted editor first unless they want a hosted nest. Pick Postico if mac developers on macOS 14+ who will pay Personal $69 once for up to 3 devices while they run a first macos_version query — then Commercial at
Best for
Beekeeper Studio A query you start at a public $
Postico A Postgres query you start at a public $
Free plan
Beekeeper Studio No free plan
Postico $0 · no time limit. “A paid license is required to unlock all features.”
Lowest paid
Beekeeper Studio Indie $9/mo yearly
Postico Student $29
Next step up
Beekeeper Studio Professional $14/mo
Postico Personal $69
Runs where
Beekeeper Studio Hosted
Postico
Watch out
Beekeeper Studio Community misses sync / team
Postico Evaluation disables paid features
Last checked
Beekeeper Studio 2026-10-23 · beekeeperstudio.io/pricing
Postico 2026-10-23 · eggerapps.at/postico2/buy.html
developers who will stay on Community free while they run a first film query — then Indie at $9/mo yearly when they need JSON sidebar / import-export, not Supabase’s Free $0 hosted editor first unless they want a hosted nest.
Read the Beekeeper Studio pagemac developers on macOS 14+ who will pay Personal $69 once for up to 3 devices while they run a first macos_version query — then Commercial at $99/device when work pays, not TablePlus Basic $99 first unless they need MySQL / multi-engine beyond Postgres-family.
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