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Convex pricing
Convex publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, Convex pricing is free across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Convex plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free & Starter | Free | 8 | Entry tier |
| Professional | $25/month per developer | 9 | +$25/month per developer, 9 more features |
| Business & Enterprise | $2500/month minimum | 5 | +$2475/month minimum, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free & Starter
FreeThe entry tier. It covers supports 1-6 developers, reactive database, file storage, text and vector search, crons, authentication.
Professional
$25/month per developerOver Free & Starter, this tier adds:
- Supports up to 20 developers
- All Starter features
- Log streaming
- Exception reporting
- Daily backups
- Custom domains
- Email support
- Higher resource quotas
- Reduced per-unit rates on overages
Business & Enterprise
$2500/month minimumOver Professional, this tier adds:
- Supports 50+ developers
- SAML/SSO
- Service SLAs
- Dedicated deployments
- Custom agreements
Where Convex stops being free
Free & Starter, Free
- Supports 1-6 developers
- Reactive database
- File storage
- Text and vector search
- Crons
- Authentication
- Node.js actions
- Pay-as-you-go for usage overages
Professional, $25/month per developer
The first thing you pay for:
- Supports up to 20 developers
- All Starter features
- Log streaming
- Exception reporting
- Daily backups
- Custom domains
- Email support
- Higher resource quotas
- Reduced per-unit rates on overages
What the product covers
The full Convex feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Reactive queries
- TypeScript server functions
- ACID transactions
- Document database
- Scheduling and workflows
- File storage
- Text and vector search
- End-to-end types
- Self-hosting
- Streaming export
People bring Convex in for collaborative applications where several users see the same data and every client must reflect a change immediately, agent backends that need durable state, scheduled work and transactional writes without assembling a queue, a database and a cache, small product teams who need a complete backend, including auth integration, file storage and subscriptions, without hiring infrastructure engineers, prototypes that must become production without a rewrite of the data layer, where end-to-end typescript types remove a class of integration bugs. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Convex are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Too few databases tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convex (this page) | Free | subscription | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs Convex |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Convex |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Convex |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Convex |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Convex |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Convex |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Convex badges page.
Before you pay for Convex
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $2500/month minimum, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Convex runs on not recorded. The full record is on the Convex review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Convex pricing questions
- How much does Convex cost?
- Convex publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free & Starter up to $2500/month minimum for Business & Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Convex have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free & Starter tier costs nothing and covers supports 1-6 developers, reactive database, file storage. Paying starts at $25/month per developer for Professional.
- What is the difference between Free & Starter and Professional on Convex?
- Professional costs $25/month per developer against Free, and adds supports up to 20 developers, all starter features, log streaming, exception reporting.
- Is the Business & Enterprise plan on Convex worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is supports 50+ developers, saml/sso, service slas, dedicated deployments. It costs $2500/month minimum against $25/month per developer for Professional. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Convex have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Convex?
- The record lists 10 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for collaborative applications where several users see the same data and every client must reflect a change immediately, agent backends that need durable state, scheduled work and transactional writes without assembling a queue, a database and a cache, small product teams who need a complete backend, including auth integration, file storage and subscriptions, without hiring infrastructure engineers.
- Does Convex charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Convex prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Convex against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Convex covering price, platforms and features.