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RavenDB pricing
RavenDB 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, RavenDB 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
RavenDB 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Professional | $499/year | 3 | +$499/year, 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
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 3 cores, 6gb ram, community support.
Professional
$499/yearOver Community, this tier adds:
- Production use
- Professional support
- Advanced features
Where RavenDB stops being free
Community, Free
- 3 cores
- 6GB RAM
- Community support
Professional, $499/year
The first thing you pay for:
- Production use
- Professional support
- Advanced features
What the product covers
The full RavenDB 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
- ACID Transactions
- Auto-indexing
- Full-text Search
- Graph Queries
- Distributed Counters
- Time Series
- Document Compression
Integrations
- .NET
- Node.js
- Java
- Python
- Go
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Docker support
- Web support
People bring RavenDB in for running a distributed document database with acid transactions, self hosting a multi node database cluster on your own hardware, replicating operational data out to analytics systems through etl. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to RavenDB 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RavenDB (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs RavenDB |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs RavenDB |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs RavenDB |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs RavenDB |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs RavenDB |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs RavenDB |
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 RavenDB badges page.
Before you pay for RavenDB
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 $499/year, 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.
RavenDB runs on linux, windows, mac, docker, web, and is published by Hibernating Rhinos of Hadera, Israel. The full record is on the RavenDB review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
RavenDB pricing questions
- How much does RavenDB cost?
- RavenDB publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Community up to $499/year for Professional. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does RavenDB have a free plan?
- Yes. The Community tier costs nothing and covers 3 cores, 6gb ram, community support. Paying starts at $499/year for Professional.
- What is the difference between Community and Professional on RavenDB?
- Professional costs $499/year against Free, and adds production use, professional support, advanced features.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside RavenDB have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with RavenDB?
- The record lists 17 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for running a distributed document database with acid transactions, self hosting a multi node database cluster on your own hardware, replicating operational data out to analytics systems through etl.
- Does RavenDB 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 RavenDB 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 RavenDB against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with RavenDB covering price, platforms and features.