MongoDB Atlas review
Free tierThe managed version of the document database everyone knows
Hosted MongoDB with search and vector search attached. The document model that a large number of developers already have in their hands, run by the company that makes it.
Entry price
Free, then $8/mo
Free: Free forever M0 cluster: 512 MB storage, shared CPU and RAM, up to 100 operations a second.
Our MongoDB Atlas verdict
MongoDB Atlas costs free, then $8/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.
Teams already writing MongoDB who want somebody else running it. There is a free tier: Free forever M0 cluster: 512 MB storage, shared CPU and RAM, up to 100 operations a second..
- Who it is not for
- The jump from Flex to Dedicated is where the bill stops being small
- What this is based on
- Based on pricing read from MongoDB Atlas'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 (M0) | Free | Same as monthly | 512 MB storage, shared vCPU and RAM, 32 MB sort memory, up to 100 operations a second |
| Flex | $8 | Same as monthly | Billed at $0.011/hour and capped: MongoDB says a month costs between $8 and $30 depending on use |
| Dedicated | $56.94 | Same as monthly | From $0.08/hour for dedicated CPU and RAM, with the full feature set |
MongoDB Atlas price history
Every price changeMongoDB Atlas's pricing has not moved since we started tracking it on 2026-08-27. We read it off MongoDB Atlas's own pricing page on every update, and this section fills in when something changes.
Read from MongoDB Atlas'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
MongoDB (document)
Free tier
512 MB, 100 ops a second
Self-host
Community edition, under the SSPL
Auth and storage built in
No, database only
Scales to zero
No
Portability
MongoDB dump, portable to any Mongo host
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