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Why it stands out
Use xata.io/pricing/calculators before board slides—hourly compute plus storage adds up non-linearly.
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Managed Postgres platform with a polished data UI, built in search, and developer friendly workflows.
Internal tools and SaaS MVPs needing search and CRUD fast
Postgres-backed data platform with spreadsheet-style schema editing, search, and API generation for teams that want a managed data plane without glue code.
xata.io/pricing (March 2026) advertises Standard at $0.012/hour + storage with scale-to-zero compute, instant copy-on-write branches, and observability features, plus a $100 credit for a 14-day trial. Published instance tables list micro at ~$9/month up through 8xlarge ~$1,121/month for reference steady-state math. Storage tiers show ~$0.17/GB/month and ~$0.30/GB/month bands for premium NVMe classes. Enterprise starts at $999/month with BYOC and white-label options.
Compare Neon or Supabase when you need pure Postgres without Xata's UI-first data plane.
Quick fit
Editorial take
Use xata.io/pricing/calculators before board slides—hourly compute plus storage adds up non-linearly.
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Pricing snapshot
Xata's public pricing shows Standard starting at $0.012 per hour plus storage, which works out to about $9 per month for the micro instance on the published table. Storage is currently listed at $0.17 per GB-month for general-purpose storage and $0.30 per GB-month for premium NVMe. Enterprise starts at $999 per month, and Xata advertises a $100 credit for a 14-day trial.
Alation
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Enterprise data intelligence and catalog platform for search, governance, trust, and AI-ready knowledge layers over organizational data.
Choose Alation when the buying problem is enterprise trust, governance, and discoverability across data assets.
