Xata review
Open sourceManaged Postgres with branching and anonymised copies
Postgres with instant branching and the ability to make an anonymised copy of production, which is the version of staging data most teams actually want. Runs managed, self-hosted or in your own cloud account.
Entry price
From $9/mo
Free: No free plan. 14-day trial with no card required, then from $9/mo.
Our Xata verdict
Xata costs from $9/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 who need realistic staging data without copying real customers. There is a 14-day trial, but no free plan.
- Who it is not for
- No free plan at all, just a 14-day trial
- What this is based on
- Based on pricing read from Xata'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xata Cloud, Micro | $9 | Same as monthly | Managed Postgres from $0.012/hour plus $0.28 per GB a month of storage, branching and anonymisation included, 14-day trial with no card |
| Xata Cloud, Small | $18 | Same as monthly | Same features, larger instance |
| Xata Cloud, Medium | $35 | Same as monthly | Same features, larger instance |
| Xata Cloud, Large | $70 | Same as monthly | Same features, larger instance |
Xata price history
Every price changeXata's pricing has not moved since we started tracking it on 2026-08-27. We read it off Xata's own pricing page on every update, and this section fills in when something changes.
Read from Xata'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
Postgres
Free tier
None, 14-day trial
Self-host
Yes, open source or in your own cloud
Auth and storage built in
No, database only
Scales to zero
Yes
Portability
Standard Postgres, dump and go
Review Xata
All Xata reviewsReviews of Xata
We do not publish a score until 3 people have left one, because an average of one review is not a rating. It takes about a minute: verify an email so we know you are a person, pick a score, and say what it is actually like to use.
No password, no newsletter, one review per person per tool.
Loading reviews…
Xata ratings elsewhere
These are not saas4that reviews and they are not part of our rating. They are figures other people published, with the day we read them and a link so you can check whether they still say that.
- GitHub1,055stars28 August 2026Check it
Product Hunt, Trustpilot and GitHub figures come from those publishers' own public APIs. We do not cite rival directories. GitHub stars are a count of people who starred a repository, not a rating, and are shown only for the open-source tools here. How we source everything.
Alternatives
Databases
Postgres with auth, storage and realtime built in
Best for founders who want a normal database they can leave with
Databases
Google's app backend, strongest on mobile
Best for mobile apps that need realtime sync and offline support out of the box
Databases
Serverless Postgres that branches like git
Best for teams who want a real database branch on every preview deploy
More on Xata
The rest of the stack
Xata does one job. These are the jobs that usually come next, and what we would look at for each.
Workflow Automation
Compare allA database is where data rests. These are how it gets there and where it goes next.
Website Building
Compare allSomething has to sit in front of it before anybody can use it.
Chosen by what job comes next, not by any integration between them: we have not verified that these products talk to each other, so we are not going to imply it. A slot in this block is not for sale and paid placement is excluded from it outright, but some of these links do earn us a commission and the ones that do say so above.
Do you make Xata?
Claim the listing, reply to reviews, and put your rating on your own site with a badge that keeps itself up to date.