Our take
Pick DBeaver if developers who will stay on Community free while they run a first Customer/Invoice join — then Lite at $113/yr when they need the visual query builder, not Supabase’s Free $0 hosted editor first unless they want a hosted nest. Pick Sequel Ace if mac developers who will stay on Free / MIT while they open a first help_topic Content grid — then keep it at $0, not TablePlus Basic $99 first unless they
Best for
DBeaver A query you start at a public $
Sequel Ace A MySQL query you start at a public $
Free plan
DBeaver No free plan
Sequel Ace No free plan
Lowest paid
DBeaver Lite $113/mo
Sequel Ace Not published by the vendor
Next step up
DBeaver Ultimate $510/yr
Sequel Ace
Coding agent
DBeaver
Sequel Ace Claude Code (paid plans)
Runs where
DBeaver Hosted
Sequel Ace
Watch out
DBeaver Community lacks PRO cloud / enterprise connectors
Sequel Ace macOS-only
Last checked
DBeaver 2026-10-23 · dbeaver.com/edition
Sequel Ace 2026-10-23 · sequel-ace.com
developers who will stay on Community free while they run a first Customer/Invoice join — then Lite at $113/yr when they need the visual query builder, not Supabase’s Free $0 hosted editor first unless they want a hosted nest.
Read the DBeaver pagemac developers who will stay on Free / MIT while they open a first help_topic Content grid — then keep it at $0, not TablePlus Basic $99 first unless they need Postgres / multi-engine on more than macOS.
Read the Sequel Ace page
