How much does Dgraph cost?

Dgraph publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Community up to $39/month for Cloud. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Community and Cloud on Dgraph?

Cloud costs $39/month against Free, and adds managed service, auto-scaling, enterprise support.

Which databases tools can I use without paying?

5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Dgraph have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.

Does Dgraph 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 Dgraph 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 Dgraph against before paying?

The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Dgraph covering price, platforms and features.

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Dgraph pricing

Dgraph 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.

As of 30 August 2026, Dgraph pricing is free across 2 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: Freemium
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Dgraph 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.

Dgraph pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Community	Free	3	Entry tier
Cloud	$39/month	3	+$39/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 native graphql, graph queries, full-text search.

Cloud

$39/month

Over Community, this tier adds:

Managed service
Auto-scaling
Enterprise support

Where Dgraph stops being free

Community, Free

Native GraphQL
Graph queries
Full-text search

Cloud, $39/month

The first thing you pay for:

Managed service
Auto-scaling
Enterprise support

What the product covers

The full Dgraph 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

Apache 2.0 licence
Generated GraphQL API
DQL query language
Predicate sharding
Raft replication
Distributed ACID transactions
Written in Go
Full-text and geo indexing
Bulk and live loaders
Access control and backups

People bring Dgraph in for an application whose core data is a graph, such as permissions, social connections or product relationships, where the frontend already consumes graphql, a knowledge graph that outgrew a single machine and needs storage distributed across nodes without a per-core licence negotiation, recommendation or fraud-detection features that traverse several hops at request time, where a relational join chain has become the bottleneck, teams that want a graph database they can read, fork and self-host under a permissive licence rather than a source-available one. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Dgraph 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.

Dgraph entry price against other Databases tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Dgraph (this page)	Free	freemium	-
Canary Labs	$3000/year	Per tag band per year	-	vs Dgraph
Presto	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Dgraph
Privacera	On request	quote	-	vs Dgraph
Dremio	Free, then $0.2/hour	Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed	-	vs Dgraph
Solace PubSub+	Free	quote	-	vs Dgraph
StarRocks	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Dgraph

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 Dgraph badges page.

Before you pay for Dgraph

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 $39/month, 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.

Dgraph runs on linux, mac, docker, web, and is published by Dgraph Labs of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the Dgraph review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.

Dgraph pricing on the vendor's own site

Dgraph pricing questions

How much does Dgraph cost?: Dgraph publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Community up to $39/month for Cloud. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Dgraph have a free plan?: Yes. The Community tier costs nothing and covers native graphql, graph queries, full-text search. Paying starts at $39/month for Cloud.
What is the difference between Community and Cloud on Dgraph?: Cloud costs $39/month against Free, and adds managed service, auto-scaling, enterprise support.
Which databases tools can I use without paying?: 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Dgraph have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
What am I actually paying for with Dgraph?: The record lists 10 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an application whose core data is a graph, such as permissions, social connections or product relationships, where the frontend already consumes graphql, a knowledge graph that outgrew a single machine and needs storage distributed across nodes without a per-core licence negotiation, recommendation or fraud-detection features that traverse several hops at request time, where a relational join chain has become the bottleneck.
Does Dgraph 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 Dgraph 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 Dgraph against before paying?: The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Dgraph covering price, platforms and features.