Pick Nile if
b2B app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (50 million query tokens, 1 GB) while they open a first Tenants list, then buy Pro at $15 / month when they want 150 million tokens, 5 GB, and the 99.95% SLA.
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Our take
Pick Nile if b2B app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (50 million query tokens, 1 GB) while they open a first Tenants list, then buy Pro at $15 / month when they want 150 million tokens, 5 GB, and the 99.95% SLA. Pick Xata if teams who will stay on Cloud micro at $0.012 / hour + $0.28 / GB-month (no card) while they open a first Projects list, then size up to small / medium when a branch needs 2–4 GB RAM.
Best for
Nile Tenant-isolated Postgres you start at $0
Xata Copy-on-write branches you start without a per-branch fee
Free plan
Nile $0 · no pauses. 50 million query tokens, then $0.06 per million. 1 GB storage, then $1.50 / GB. 500 connections. Unlimited databases, tenant DBs, embeddings, users, tenants. Community support. Tenant insights 1 day
Xata No free plan
Lowest paid
Nile Usage meters on the calculator we fetched $1.00
Xata Xata Cloud $0.012
Next step up
Nile Pro $15
Xata
Runs where
Nile Hosted
Xata Hosted
Watch out
Nile Free is 50 million query tokens and 1 GB
Xata Cloud $0.012 / hr is a running micro, not unlimited
Last checked
Nile 2026-10-23 · thenile.dev/pricing
Xata 2026-10-23 · xata.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Xata if
teams who will stay on Cloud micro at $0.012 / hour + $0.28 / GB-month (no card) while they open a first Projects list, then size up to small / medium when a branch needs 2–4 GB RAM.
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