How much does FaunaDB cost?

FaunaDB publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $25/month for Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does FaunaDB have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 100k read ops, 50k write ops, 1gb storage. Paying starts at $25/month for Pro.

What is the difference between Free and Pro on FaunaDB?

Pro costs $25/month against Free, and adds pay per use, priority support, advanced features.

Which databases tools can I use without paying?

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

Does FaunaDB 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 FaunaDB 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 FaunaDB against before paying?

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

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FaunaDB pricing

FaunaDB 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, FaunaDB 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

FaunaDB 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.

FaunaDB pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	3	Entry tier
Pro	$25/month	3	+$25/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.

Free

The entry tier. It covers 100k read ops, 50k write ops, 1gb storage.

Pro

$25/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Pay per use
Priority support
Advanced features

Where FaunaDB stops being free

Free, Free

100K read ops
50K write ops
1GB storage

Pro, $25/month

The first thing you pay for:

Pay per use
Priority support
Advanced features

What the product covers

The full FaunaDB 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

Document-relational model
FQL v10
Distributed ACID transactions
HTTPS access
User-defined functions
Attribute-based access control
Document history
Event streaming
Apache 2.0 core
Self-hosted deployment

People bring FaunaDB in for keeping an existing fauna-backed application alive on self-hosted infrastructure while a migration is planned and funded, extracting historical data from a fauna dataset that can no longer be reached through the hosted api, studying a production implementation of deterministic distributed transactions, since the full server source is now readable under apache 2.0, forking the engine deliberately, where an organisation has jvm and distributed-systems staff and wants a document-relational store it fully controls. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to FaunaDB 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.

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

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 FaunaDB badges page.

Before you pay for FaunaDB

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 $25/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.

FaunaDB runs on web, and is published by Fauna Inc. of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the FaunaDB review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.

FaunaDB pricing on the vendor's own site

FaunaDB pricing questions

How much does FaunaDB cost?: FaunaDB publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $25/month for Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does FaunaDB have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 100k read ops, 50k write ops, 1gb storage. Paying starts at $25/month for Pro.
What is the difference between Free and Pro on FaunaDB?: Pro costs $25/month against Free, and adds pay per use, priority support, advanced features.
Which databases tools can I use without paying?: 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside FaunaDB have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
What am I actually paying for with FaunaDB?: The record lists 10 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for keeping an existing fauna-backed application alive on self-hosted infrastructure while a migration is planned and funded, extracting historical data from a fauna dataset that can no longer be reached through the hosted api, studying a production implementation of deterministic distributed transactions, since the full server source is now readable under apache 2.0.
Does FaunaDB 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 FaunaDB 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 FaunaDB against before paying?: The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with FaunaDB covering price, platforms and features.