Start free. Upgrade when you need more capacity.
$0/month
Free forever. No credit card.
For prototypes and first experiments.
Includes
$25/month
Or $20 a month, billed yearly
For products with real users, agencies and small teams.
Everything in Free, plus
Custom
Annual agreement, invoiced
For companies that need custom limits, isolation and an SLA.
Everything in Pro, plus
Pro’s quotas are shared by every project on your account. Past a quota, nothing is billed unless you set a spend limit and pay it in advance. Usage then continues at the rates shown, never past that limit.
| Feature | Free $0/month | Pro $25/month | Enterprise Customannual Talk to us |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan | |||
Price | $0 forever | $25 per month or $240 per year | Annual agreement |
Projects | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Team seats | 2 | 5, with project-level access | Custom |
| Database | |||
Postgres database Shared by every project on your account | 512 MB | 8 GB included then $0.125 per GB-month | Custom |
API requests No cap and no per-request fee on any plan | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Daily backups | 7 days kept | 7 days kept | 7 days kept |
Direct Postgres access and pg_dump export | Included | Included | Included |
Schema change restore points kept Each change shows whether the state before it can still be restored | 7 days | 30 days | 90 days |
Deployment history and rollback | Full history | Full history | Full history |
| Auth | |||
Monthly active users | 50,000 | 100,000 included then $0.003 per MAU | Custom |
Email, password and social sign-in | Included | Included | Included |
| Storage | |||
File storage | 1 GB | 100 GB included then $0.0213 per GB-month | Custom |
Egress | 5 GB | 250 GB included then $0.09 per GB | Custom |
| Realtime | |||
Concurrent connections | 25 | 1,000 | Custom |
Database changes, presence and broadcast | Included | Included | Included |
| Functions and events | |||
Function runs | 10,000 per month | 2M included then $2.00 per 1M runs | Custom |
Event triggers | Not included | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Outbound webhooks | Not included | Included | Included |
Custom domains | Not included | Included | Included |
| AI and agents | |||
AI credits One credit is 1,000 tokens of Backenly’s own model usage | 200 per month | 3,000 per month | Custom pool |
Build over MCP with your own agent The typed tools never use credits | No charge | No charge | No charge |
Self-healing Checks every minute and repairs what is safe | Never metered | Never metered | Never metered |
| Billing protection | |||
Usage past the included amounts | Hard caps, never billed | Prepaid, only up to your spend limit Off by default: every quota is a hard cap | Per contract |
Spend limit Paid in advance. Only an owner can raise it; agents and API keys can only read it | Not included | $50, $100, $250 or your own Emails at 50%, 80% and 100% | Per contract |
| Platform and support | |||
Log retention | 7 days | 30 days | 90 days |
Single sign-on (OIDC) | Not included | Not included | Included |
Support | Community | Dedicated, 12-hour SLA | |
Yes. The Free plan creates one permanent live project with enough capacity to validate a real backend.
Yes. The platform is open source under Apache-2.0 and free to self-host. You bring the servers, the Postgres, and an AI provider key (Claude or OpenAI) if you want the natural-language build tools. The self-healing loop itself needs no model. The plans on this page are Backenly Cloud, where we run the infrastructure and handle backups and upgrades. It is the same codebase either way, and pg_dump moves your data between the two.
One credit is 1,000 tokens of Backenly’s own model usage. Credits are spent only when Backenly runs its own model for you: the natural-language MCP tool (backend_chat), including the model-driven steps inside that turn, such as the architect and function generation. The dashboard assistant answers questions free, the typed MCP tools cost nothing, and self-healing never uses credits.
Almost never. It depends on which tool your agent calls. The typed MCP tools (create_table, add_column, set_rls, generate_types, run_query and the rest) compile straight to SQL with no model call, so they are free on every plan: your agent supplies the reasoning and you pay your own provider. The exception is the natural-language tools, backend_chat and generate_function, where Backenly runs its own model for you. Those use credits, and you are billed only the tokens the call used. An agent that sticks to the typed tools uses no credits.
No. Detection and repair are deterministic: probes find drift, and each finding maps to a typed repair that compiles to SQL, with no model in the repair path. When the loop cannot fix something and escalates it to you, a model may write the diagnosis you read; we pay for that, not your credits. Every plan, Free included, gets the same loop: a check every minute, repairs for everything it can do safely, no per-window cap and no monthly limit. Healing is never metered, so your backend keeps repairing itself after you reach a quota. Plans differ on capacity (projects, users, storage, AI credits), not on self-healing.
No. They are included on every plan. Paid plans raise capacity, keep restore points longer, and add support and advanced controls.
You are not locked in, and your data can always leave. Your backend is standard PostgreSQL and it stays yours. Every plan, Free included, gets a read-only connection string (psql, TablePlus, any BI tool), an optional read-write one, and one-click pg_dump exports that restore on any Postgres: RDS, Neon, your own server. The platform is open source too, so you can also move to a self-hosted Backenly. Schema, data, constraints and indexes all leave with you, at any time, with no exit fee.
Yes. Paid access continues until the end of the billing period, then the account returns to the Free plan.
Nothing is billed unless you choose it. Pro’s quotas are shared by every project on your account, and your spend limit is off by default, so each quota is a hard cap. Set a limit ($50, $100, $250 or your own) and pay it in advance. Usage then continues at the rates in the table, never past that limit, with emails at 50%, 80% and 100%. Each month’s usage is drawn from what you paid and the rest carries over. Projects, API requests, self-healing, the typed MCP tools, deploys and rollbacks are never billed.
No credit card. Move to Pro when your product needs more capacity.
