# Xata

Managed Postgres with branching and anonymised copies

- Site: https://xata.io
- Category: Databases
- Best for: Teams who need realistic staging data without copying real customers
- Price: From $9/mo
- Free: No free plan. 14-day trial with no card required, then from $9/mo.
- Trial: 14 days
- Open source: yes
- Rating: fewer than 3 reviews, so none is published
- Pricing checked: 2026-08-28

## Tiers

- **Xata Cloud, Micro**, $9/mo: 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/mo: Same features, larger instance
- **Xata Cloud, Medium**, $35/mo: Same features, larger instance
- **Xata Cloud, Large**, $70/mo: Same features, larger instance

## Good

- Anonymised copies of production, so staging can have realistic data without real customer records
- Branching with no per-branch fee
- Open source and can run in your own cloud account, not just theirs

## Not good

- No free plan at all, just a 14-day trial
- The product was rebuilt in 2025, so anything written about the old Xata no longer applies
- Priced per instance size, which is a step function rather than usage

## Specifics

- 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

## 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 Xata has got more expensive, the answer is no, not in that window.

## Sources

- https://xata.io
- https://xata.io/pricing

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