Supabase free tier and limits
Hosted Postgres with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions in one project. It is the backend Lovable and many Bolt apps connect to.
What the free plan gives you
- 500 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress
- 50,000 monthly active users for Auth
- Unlimited API requests, up to 2 active free projects
- 500,000 Edge Function invocations
Best for
Apps generated by Lovable or Bolt that already use the Supabase client.
Watch out
Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity, and the free plan has no automatic backups. Every table exposed to the browser needs Row Level Security.
Other database options
Neon
Serverless Postgres that scales to zero when idle, with database branching. Works with any Postgres client or ORM (Prisma, Drizzle).
Free Up to 100 projects, no credit card required
Turso
Hosted SQLite-compatible databases. Lightweight enough to give every user or tenant their own database.
Free $0/month, no credit card required
Firebase (Cloud Firestore)
Google's app platform: Firestore document database, Auth, Hosting and Cloud Messaging. Common in apps built with Firebase Studio.
Free Spark plan: no payment method needed