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Open source backend with auth, databases, storage, functions, and messaging for apps.
Indie SaaS shipping CRUD + auth without wiring ten microservices
Appwrite is an open-source BaaS-style backend: Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and hosting-oriented features behind one console.
appwrite.io/pricing (March 2026) lists Free at $0 with 5 GB/month API bandwidth, 2 GB storage, 750K function executions/month, 75,000 monthly active users (MAUs), 1 DB and 1 bucket per project, 2 functions per project, community support, and 2 projects (shared resources)—free projects pause after 1 week of inactivity. Pro starts at $25/month with 2 TB bandwidth, 150 GB storage, 3.5M executions, 200k MAUs, unlimited DBs/buckets/functions per project, daily backups (7-day retention), email support, and add-on meters (e.g. ~$15 per 100 GB extra bandwidth, ~$3 per 1,000 extra MAUs, ~$0.06 per GB-hour extra function compute on published tables). Enterprise adds SLAs, SSO, compliance, log drains, BYOC, and custom terms.
Self-hosted Appwrite on GitHub remains free; you pay compute and ops.
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Appwrite's pricing is unusually readable for a backend platform, but only if you model all the moving parts together: MAUs, executions, bandwidth, database reads and writes, and storage. The free-tier inactivity pause is also easy to miss during internal demos.
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Appwrite's official pricing page shows Free at $0 with 5 GB of bandwidth, 2 GB of storage, 750,000 executions, 75,000 monthly active users, and a limit of 2 free projects that pause after 1 week of inactivity. Pro starts at $25 per month with 2 TB of bandwidth, 150 GB of storage, 3.5 million executions, and 200,000 monthly active users. Enterprise is custom, while self-hosted Appwrite remains open source and free apart from your own infrastructure.
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