How much does Couchbase cost?

Couchbase publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Community up to Free for Capella Free. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Couchbase have a free plan?

Yes. The Community tier costs nothing and covers full features, community support, self-managed.

What is the difference between Community and Capella Free on Couchbase?

Capella Free costs Free against Free, and adds managed service, limited resources, cloud hosted.

Does Couchbase charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Couchbase 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 Couchbase against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Couchbase to make a useful price comparison.

Software · pricing

Couchbase pricing

Couchbase publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Couchbase 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.

Couchbase pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Community	Free	3	Entry tier
Capella Free	Free	3	+$0/month, 3 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.

Community

Free

The entry tier. It covers full features, community support, self-managed.

Capella Free

Free

Over Community, this tier adds:

Managed service
Limited resources
Cloud hosted

Where Couchbase stops being free

Community, Free

Full features
Community support
Self-managed

No paid tier on record

Couchbase lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Couchbase 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.

Core

JSON Document Model
SQL++ Query
Full-text Search
Eventing
Analytics
Mobile Sync
Multi-dimensional Scaling

Integrations

Kafka
Spark
Kubernetes
Spring
Sync Gateway

Platform

Linux support
Windows support
Mac support
Docker support
Web support

People bring Couchbase in for running a distributed nosql document database as a managed service, mobile sync and offline first applications backed by a cloud database. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Couchbase are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Couchbase

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: 2 tiers between Free and Free, 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.

Couchbase runs on linux, windows, mac, docker, web, and is published by Couchbase Inc. of Santa Clara, California. The full record is on the Couchbase review.

Couchbase pricing on the vendor's own site