# Convex

A reactive backend where queries update themselves

- Site: https://www.convex.dev
- Category: Databases
- Best for: Realtime apps where the whole team writes TypeScript
- 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.
- Rating: fewer than 3 reviews, so none is published
- Pricing checked: 2026-08-28

## Tiers

- **Free and Starter**, $0/mo: 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/mo: 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/mo: Monthly minimum. 50+ developers, SAML and SSO, service SLAs, dedicated deployments, volume pricing

## Good

- Queries are reactive by default, which removes a whole layer of websocket plumbing
- Database functions are TypeScript, so there is one language and one type system end to end
- The backend source is published and can be run yourself

## Not good

- A proprietary data model rather than SQL, so leaving means a rewrite
- Professional is priced per developer, so a team of four is $100/mo before any usage
- A small ecosystem next to Postgres, and few people to hire who already know it

## Specifics

- 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

## Price history

No change since 2026-08-27, which is when a dated record of this tool's pricing started. If you are asked whether Convex has got more expensive, the answer is no, not in that window.

## Sources

- https://www.convex.dev
- https://www.convex.dev/pricing

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