Appwrite Pricing 2026: Free, Pro $25, Extra Projects, Overages

Appwrite Cloud costs $25/mo on Pro for one project, plus $15/mo for each additional project, with $10 of database compute credit included each month and usage above the plan quotas billed pay as you go. The Free plan is $0 for up to two projects with shared resources, paused after a week of inactivity. A three-project Pro organization is $55/mo before overages, by our arithmetic on the published prices.

Appwrite is an open-source backend, auth, database, storage, functions, messaging and hosting in one API, sold as a managed cloud and free to self-host. Since September 2025 its cloud bills per project rather than per team member, so the question is no longer how many developers you have but how many apps you run. This page prices the plans, the overages, the dedicated database tiers and the three-project case.

Every figure was read on Appwrite's pricing page and its billing and Pro plan documentation on 26 October 2026. Whether the product earns the subscription against Supabase and Firebase is the Appwrite review; this page is about the bill.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, tracks 114 low-code backend tools as of October 26, 2026, and 75% of them offer a free tier, so Appwrite's $0 plan is table stakes in this category rather than a differentiator. The category figures are on the low-code backend statistics page and the record is Appwrite on Toolradar, where it ranks #17 most-listed alternative among 318 hosting and deployment tools. Devshot data: this newsletter reaches 31,000+ developers as of November 8, 2026, with an open rate of 32%.

At a glance

Plan	Price	Projects	Bandwidth	Storage	Executions	Monthly active users	Support
Free	$0	2, shared resources, paused after 1 idle week	5 GB	2 GB	750K	75K	Community
Pro	$25/mo for the first project, $15/mo each additional	1 included, more at the extra-project rate, dedicated resources per project	2 TB per project	150 GB per project	3.5M per project	200K per project	Email
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	Custom	Custom	Custom	Custom	24/7 on Slack, SLAs

Prices are monthly in US dollars, charged to a card, and there is no annual billing option on the pricing page. A billing period starts the day you change plan and runs 30 days, with the plan and add-ons charged at the start of the period and usage charged at the start of the next one, per Appwrite's billing documentation.

How does Appwrite pricing work?

The plan belongs to the organization, but the resources and the price belong to each project. Appwrite's Pro documentation puts it in one sentence: plans are applied to an entire organization, resources are allocated per project. The first Pro project carries the full quota list, 2 TB of bandwidth, 150 GB of storage, 3.5 million function executions, 200,000 monthly active users, 1.75 million database reads and 750,000 writes. Each additional project is $15/mo and gets the same dedicated quotas, not a share of the first project's.

Above a quota, Appwrite buys more automatically at the overage rates below until the organization's budget cap is reached. The cap covers add-ons only, never the recurring plan cost, and it sends an email alert at 75% by default. A Free organization behaves differently: at a limit the project freezes and the console goes read-only until the next period, an upgrade, or a cleanup.

The database compute credit is the newest piece. Every Pro organization gets $10 of compute credit a month, which is exactly the price of the smallest dedicated database tier, so one project can run a reserved 1-core, 1 GB database for nothing extra. Serverless databases have no fixed fee at all: they draw on the plan's read and write quota and then on the overage rates.

What each plan includes

Free: two paused-when-idle projects

Free covers two projects on shared infrastructure, each with one database, one bucket, two functions, three connected apps and two webhooks, with 5 GB of bandwidth, 2 GB of storage, 750,000 executions and 75,000 monthly active users a month. Builds time out at 15 minutes, logs are kept for one hour, realtime is capped at 250 concurrent connections and 2 million messages, and the organization has a single member. The week-long inactivity pause is the limit that matters: a side project that nobody opens for seven days is paused, which rules Free out for anything a user might hit on a quiet Tuesday.

Pro: full price for the first project, a discount on every extra

Pro removes the pause and the member cap, and raises every quota: unlimited databases, buckets and functions, daily backups kept for seven days, logs kept seven days, 500 realtime connections and 6 million messages, 1,000 GB-hours of function compute with up to 4 CPUs and 4 GB of RAM, 45-minute builds, a 5 GB file size limit and 50 firewall rules per project. Organization roles, email support, pay as you go and budget caps come with it. Compliance works differently by tier: on Pro the BAA is a click-through agreement an organization owner enables in the settings, per Appwrite's HIPAA documentation, while Enterprise signs one and lists SOC-2 and HIPAA among its features.

Enterprise: the custom tier that replaced Scale

Enterprise adds uptime SLAs, a success manager, 24/7 Slack support, volume discounts, log drains, 90-day log retention, bring-your-own-cloud, SSO, activity logs and custom backup policies. It replaced the $599/mo Scale plan that Appwrite listed through 2025; there is no self-serve tier between Pro and a sales call any more.

Overage rates on Pro

Resource	Included per Pro project	Overage
API bandwidth	2 TB a month	$15 per 100 GB
Storage	150 GB	$2.80 per 100 GB
Function executions	3.5M a month	$2 per 1M
Function compute	1,000 GB-hours a month	$0.06 per GB-hour
Monthly active users	200K	$3 per 1,000
Database reads	1.75M a month	$0.06 per 100K
Database writes	750K a month	$0.10 per 100K
Realtime connections	500 concurrent	$5 per 1,000
Realtime messages	6M a month	$2.50 per 1M
Image transformations	100 origin images a month	$5 per 1,000
Screenshots	5,000 a month	$0.004 each
Text embeddings	10M tokens per model a month	From $0.05 per 1M tokens
Phone OTP	Per message	Rates by country on the pricing page

The rates worth modelling are bandwidth and users, because they scale with success rather than with code. A project that serves 3 TB a month pays $150 for the extra terabyte, by our arithmetic, and one that reaches 300,000 monthly active users pays $300 for the extra hundred thousand. Reads and writes are cheap by comparison: ten million extra reads cost $6.

Dedicated database tiers

Appwrite sells reserved database compute per database, in twelve tiers, for teams that want fixed capacity instead of serverless quotas.

Tier	CPU	Memory	Price
Starter	1 core	1 GB	$10/mo
Standard	2 cores	2 GB	$20/mo
Standard Plus	2 cores	4 GB	$49/mo
Professional	4 cores	8 GB	$85/mo
Business	4 cores	16 GB	$160/mo
Business Plus	4 cores	32 GB	$299/mo
Enterprise	8 cores	32 GB	$425/mo
Enterprise Plus	8 cores	64 GB	$699/mo
Scale	16 cores	64 GB	$999/mo
Scale Plus	16 cores	128 GB	$1,699/mo
Scale Pro	32 cores	128 GB	$2,399/mo
Scale Max	32 cores	256 GB	$4,099/mo

A high-availability replica costs the full tier price again, and point-in-time recovery adds 20% of the base price. Dedicated tiers also open the database types beyond the default TablesDB: DocumentsDB, VectorsDB, PostgreSQL or MySQL. The monthly credit offsets one Starter database in full, so a Professional tier is effectively $75 for the first dedicated database. The pricing page does not say whether the credit is granted per organization or per project; this page takes the per-organization reading, the conservative one.

What a three-project organization pays

The scenario is a studio running three production apps in one Appwrite organization, each on serverless databases, with traffic inside the quotas.

Setup	Monthly	A year
3 projects on Pro, serverless databases	$55 (the first project plus two extras)	$660
Same, each project on a dedicated Starter database	$75 (three projects plus three Starter tiers, less the credit)	$900
Same, one project on a Professional database	$130 (three projects plus one Professional tier, less the credit)	$1,560

All three rows are our arithmetic on the printed prices. The second and third projects are the bargain: at the extra-project rate they carry the same 2 TB, 150 GB, 3.5 million executions and 200,000 users as the first project, so the per-project price falls to $18.33 across three, by our arithmetic. The dedicated databases are where the bill grows, because the credit covers one Starter tier and nothing beyond it.

Supabase, the closest comparison, prices the same shape differently. Supabase's pricing page, read the same day, lists Pro at the same first-project price with the first project included and additional projects from $10/mo, with compute credits that cover one Micro instance; three projects are $45/mo there, by our arithmetic, so Appwrite is the dearer of the two before usage. The quotas behind those prices are not alike, though: Supabase Pro lists 100,000 monthly active users and 250 GB of egress, Appwrite 200,000 users and 2 TB per project, which is why the Supabase pricing page and the Firebase pricing page price their own scenarios. The one-project decision is the best backend as a service ranking.

What changed: from per member to per project

Appwrite rewrote its Pro plan twice in 2025, and the dated copies of its pricing page show both steps.

Page date	Pro plan
December 28, 2024	$15 per member a month, 300 GB bandwidth, unlimited projects that were never paused on Free; Scale at $599 per organization
August 4, 2025	"From" the same monthly price per organization, extra members still billed per seat, 300 GB bandwidth; Free cut to two projects, still never paused
September 11, 2025	The current first-project price with "dedicated resources per project", extra projects at today's rate and 2 TB bandwidth; Scale still listed
June 24, 2026	Same project prices, Free paused after a week idle and cut to two functions, Enterprise in place of Scale
October 26, 2026 (live page)	As in June, plus the dedicated database tiers and the monthly compute credit

Who won and who lost is a matter of head count against app count. A five-person team on one app paid $75/mo under the 2024 per-member price and pays the single-project price today; a solo developer with three apps paid one seat and pays $55, our arithmetic on the snapshot prices. The bandwidth included with each project went from 300 GB to 2 TB in the same move, which is the trade Appwrite made: more quota per app, a price per app.

Gotchas and hidden costs

• Free projects pause after seven idle days, and the pricing page prints no grace period.
• Budget caps exclude the plan itself: a cap of $0 still bills the first project and every extra one.
• Usage is billed a period late, at the start of the next 30-day cycle, so the first invoice after a traffic spike is the second one.
• Downgrading to Free removes every admin but the creator at the end of the billing period, and over-limit projects freeze.
• Card payments only: the FAQ lists credit and debit cards as the supported methods and says more are in the works.
• A signed BAA, SOC-2 and SSO sit on Enterprise: Pro gets a click-through BAA, and Enterprise has no printed price.
• Phone OTP and domain registration are priced on separate rate sheets, not in the plan quota.

Which Appwrite plan should you choose?

Stay on Free for prototypes you touch every week, and nothing with real users: two projects, 75,000 monthly active users and 750,000 executions are generous, the pause is not.

Pick Pro the day an app has a user you cannot call, and add projects rather than organizations: the second project is the cheapest capacity on the page. Set the budget cap on day one, because overage buying is automatic and bandwidth is the line that moves.

Price a dedicated database only when serverless latency or a Postgres requirement forces it, and remember the credit covers one Starter tier. A team that needs SSO, SLAs or compliance paperwork has no self-serve route and should budget for an Enterprise conversation. If the per-project model does not fit, the Supabase review and the Firebase alternatives list are the next reads; the mobile-first shortlist is best backend for mobile apps.

Methodology and sources

Plan prices, project rules, quotas, overage rates and the dedicated database tiers were read on Appwrite's pricing page on 26 October 2026, and the billing period, budget cap, limit, downgrade and BAA rules on Appwrite's billing, Pro plan and HIPAA documentation the same day. Past prices come from the dated web.archive.org copies of the pricing page linked in the history table and are used only for the "before" comparison. Supabase's figures were read on Supabase's pricing page the same day. The three-project totals, the per-project average, the overage examples and the before-and-after team costs are our arithmetic on those printed prices. Toolradar figures are from its low-code backend category as of October 26, 2026.

Louis Corneloup, founder of Toolradar and Dupple, wrote this page. We run no test lab and give no rating. The method is on how we rate, corrections on the editorial policy and the author note on about. Check the pricing page before you add the third project; this one changed twice last year.

FAQ

How much does Appwrite cost per month in 2026?

Free is $0 for two projects with shared resources. Pro is $25/mo for the first project and less for each additional one, with database compute credit every month and pay-as-you-go overages above the quotas. Enterprise is a quote. There is no annual price on the pricing page.

Is Appwrite free?

Yes, with limits: two projects, one database, one bucket and two functions each, 5 GB of bandwidth, 2 GB of storage, 750,000 function executions and 75,000 monthly active users a month, for a single member. Free projects pause after a week without activity, and the self-hosted open-source edition is free without those caps.

Does Appwrite charge per user or per seat?

Not any more. Pro charges per project, a full price for the first and a lower one for each additional, with unlimited organization members. Until September 2025 the Pro plan was priced per member. End users are metered separately: 200,000 monthly active users per project are included, then $3 per 1,000.

What does Appwrite cost for three projects?

$55/mo on Pro with serverless databases, the first project at full price and the other two at the extra-project rate, which is $660 a year by our arithmetic. Each project keeps its own 2 TB of bandwidth, 150 GB of storage and 3.5 million executions. Putting all three on dedicated Starter databases adds $20 after the monthly credit.

How does the database compute credit work?

Every Pro organization receives $10 of compute credit a month for database usage, equal to the price of the Starter dedicated tier (1 core, 1 GB). It offsets one such database in full or the same amount of a larger tier; serverless databases have no fixed fee and do not need it.

Is Appwrite cheaper than Supabase?

For one project they match on the first-project price. For three, Supabase's additional projects start $5 cheaper than Appwrite's, so $45 against $55 a month by our arithmetic, but Appwrite includes 200,000 monthly active users and 2 TB of bandwidth per project where Supabase Pro includes 100,000 users and 250 GB of egress, so a busy app can cost less on Appwrite once usage is counted.

Cite this: Devshot, "Appwrite Pricing 2026: Free, Pro $25, Extra Projects, Overages", October 2026.

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