Our take
Pick Convex if typeScript app teams who will stay on Free $0 (1M function calls, 0.5 GB database, 1–6 developers) while they ship a prototype, then buy Professional at $25 per developer / month when they need 25M calls, log streaming, and daily backups. Pick SurrealDB if app teams who will stay on Cloud Start at $0/hour (first instance, 1 GB storage, daily backups) while they open a first Instances list, then add a
Best for
Convex A hosted backend you start at $0, then $25 per developer
SurrealDB An instance you start at $0
Free plan
Convex $0 · /month. 1–6 developers. 1M function calls then $2.20/1M (Starter pay-as-you-go). 20 GB-hours of action compute then $0.33/GB-hour. 0.5 GB database then $0.22/GB. 1 GB files then $0.033/GB. 0.5 GB search then $0.55/GB. 1 GB database I/O then $0.22/GB. 3,000 search query-GBs then $0.11/1K. 1 GB egress then $0.132/GB. 40 deployments. 1,000 concurrent sessions. Query/mutation compute is free
SurrealDB $0 · /hour (Free · 0.25 vCPU · 1 GB). 1 GB storage free forever. Further instances from $0.021/hour. Daily automated backups. Vertical scale. Cloud RBAC/ABAC
Lowest paid
Convex Business & Enterprise $2/mo
SurrealDB Scale $0.192
Next step up
Convex Professional $25
SurrealDB Start storage $0.239
Coding agent
Convex
SurrealDB Self-host / Cloud
Runs where
Convex Hosted
SurrealDB Hosted
Watch out
Convex Free is 1M function calls and 0.5 GB of database
SurrealDB $0 is the first Start instance only
Last checked
Convex 2026-10-22 · convex.dev/pricing
SurrealDB 2026-10-23 · surrealdb.com/pricing
typeScript app teams who will stay on Free $0 (1M function calls, 0.5 GB database, 1–6 developers) while they ship a prototype, then buy Professional at $25 per developer / month when they need 25M calls, log streaming, and daily backups.
Read the Convex pageapp teams who will stay on Cloud Start at $0/hour (first instance, 1 GB storage, daily backups) while they open a first Instances list, then add a burstable small at $0.021/hour ($15.33/month if it ran 730 hours) when they need a second instance or more CPU.
Read the SurrealDB page