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CouchDB pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for CouchDB. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the databases tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, CouchDB pricing is free. 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
- Open-source
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The CouchDB catalogue entry carries no price and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the CouchDB review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full CouchDB 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
- Multi-master Replication
- HTTP/JSON API
- MapReduce Views
- ACID Semantics
- Offline-first
- Conflict Resolution
- Fauxton UI
Integrations
- PouchDB
- Cloudant
- Mango Queries
- Erlang
- Nano
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Docker support
People bring CouchDB in for offline-first applications requiring seamless replication across mobile and server environments, multi-master deployments where data consistency eventually resolves across regions, iot and edge computing scenarios with intermittent connectivity. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to CouchDB 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CouchDB (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs CouchDB |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CouchDB |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs CouchDB |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs CouchDB |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs CouchDB |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CouchDB |
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 CouchDB badges page.
Before you pay for CouchDB
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
CouchDB runs on docker, windows (x64), macos, linux (debian, ubuntu, rhel, centos), raspberry pi, and is published by Apache Software Foundation of Wakefield, Massachusetts. The full record is on the CouchDB review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
CouchDB pricing questions
- How much does CouchDB cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for CouchDB, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does CouchDB have a free plan?
- Yes, CouchDB is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside CouchDB have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with CouchDB?
- The record lists 16 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for offline-first applications requiring seamless replication across mobile and server environments, multi-master deployments where data consistency eventually resolves across regions, iot and edge computing scenarios with intermittent connectivity.
- Does CouchDB charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 CouchDB 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 CouchDB against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with CouchDB covering price, platforms and features.