Convex review
Free tierA reactive backend where queries update themselves
Database, server functions and realtime subscriptions written entirely in TypeScript. A query is reactive by default, so a change to the data pushes to every client without you wiring up websockets.
Entry price
Free, then $25/mo
Free: Free and Starter plan: 25M function calls, 50 GB database storage, 100 GB file storage, up to 6 developers.
Our Convex verdict
Convex costs free, then $25/mo. Nobody has reviewed it here yet, so this page is about what it costs and what it does, not how well it does it.
Realtime apps where the whole team writes TypeScript. There is a free tier: Free and Starter plan: 25M function calls, 50 GB database storage, 100 GB file storage, up to 6 developers..
- Who it is not for
- A proprietary data model rather than SQL, so leaving means a rewrite
- What this is based on
- Based on pricing read from Convex's own page on 2026-08-28, and what the product says it does. No reviews yet, so no score.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual /mo | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free and Starter | Free | Same as monthly | 1 to 6 developers, 25M function calls, 250 GB-hours action compute, 50 GB database storage, 100 GB file storage, 50 GB egress, then pay as you go |
| Professional | $25 | Same as monthly | Per developer per month, 1 to 20 developers. Adds log streaming, exception reporting, daily backups, HIPAA and SOC 2 reports, custom domains |
| Business and Enterprise | $2500 | Same as monthly | Monthly minimum. 50+ developers, SAML and SSO, service SLAs, dedicated deployments, volume pricing |
Convex price history
Every price changeConvex's pricing has not moved since we started tracking it on 2026-08-27. We read it off Convex's own pricing page on every update, and this section fills in when something changes.
Read from Convex's own pricing page, dated on the day we read it. We only claim a change happened between two dates we actually looked, never on a date we did not.
Engine
Proprietary document store, TypeScript queries
Free tier
25M function calls, 50 GB
Self-host
Yes, source-available backend
Auth and storage built in
Yes
Scales to zero
Yes
Portability
Proprietary, expect a rewrite to leave
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