# Nhost review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Managed Postgres backend with GraphQL, auth, storage and functions Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Nhost is a hosted backend platform built around a Postgres database. Each project gets an instant GraphQL API, user authentication, file storage with a CDN and serverless functions, and you can also run your own containers. It has a free starter plan, usage-based Pro and Team plans, and a custom Enterprise tier. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Nhost - **Website:** https://nhost.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you leave a project idle, as the free Starter pauses after a week. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Nhost has a free plan, and paid plans start at $25 per month and up (Pro), with $15 of compute credits included. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Starter: 1 active project that pauses after a week of inactivity, with a 1 GB database, 1 GB storage and 5 GB egress. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $0 | 1 project and 1 workspace member, unlimited users, functions, realtime APIs and community support. | | Pro | $25 per month and up, plus usage | 10 GB database, 50 GB storage, 50 GB egress, daily backups, email support and $15 of compute credits; unlimited projects. | | Team | $599 per month and up, plus usage | Everything in Pro plus SOC 2 Type II, email support SLA, a dedicated Discord channel and external database connections. | | Enterprise | Custom | SLAs, a dedicated technical account manager and optional dedicated clusters. Sold through sales. | Read from https://nhost.io/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Nhost before buying. ## Key features - **Postgres database:** Every project has a dedicated Postgres instance, with 7 days of daily backups on paid plans and point-in-time recovery as an add-on. - **Hasura GraphQL API:** A GraphQL engine gives instant real-time APIs over the data, with event triggers, subscriptions and role-based authorization. - **Authentication:** Email and password, magic links, social OAuth providers, WebAuthn and 2FA, with unlimited users on every plan. - **Storage and functions:** File storage with a global CDN and image transformation, plus serverless JavaScript and TypeScript functions with per-plan execution limits. - **Nhost Run containers:** A managed container runtime for your own services in any language, billed per vCPU and memory allocated. - **CLI and git deploys:** A CLI runs the whole stack locally, and pushing to git deploys the backend; infrastructure can be managed as code. ## Good for - Front-end teams that want a Postgres and GraphQL backend without running servers - Prototypes that fit inside one free, pausable project - Startups that need auth, storage and functions from one vendor ## Worth knowing - The free Starter project is paused after a week of inactivity, and it is limited to one project and one workspace member. - Usage beyond included amounts is charged: $0.20 per GB of database, $0.05 per GB of storage and $0.10 per GB of egress. - Compute is billed separately at $15 per shared or $50 per dedicated vCPU core a month. - Custom domains cost $10 per project per month, and point-in-time recovery starts at $100. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Nhost is a managed Postgres backend with Hasura GraphQL, auth, storage and functions. The free project pauses after a week of inactivity, and Pro at $25 a month adds usage charges, separate compute and extras that cost more. - **Value for money: D.** Pro is $25 a month plus usage, above the $20.83 dearer-quarter line for web hosting, with compute at $15 per vCPU and custom domains $10 per project. The free tier pauses, so real use sits on Pro. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free Starter with 1 project, 1 GB database, 1 GB storage and 5 GB egress. It pauses after a week of inactivity and has one workspace member. - **Features: C.** Postgres, Hasura GraphQL, auth, storage, functions and containers with a CLI. Point-in-time recovery starts at $100 and custom domains cost extra. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You design the data model and wire up the client yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with a short list: Hasura, Postgres, Grafana and GraphQL. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Nhost's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Nhost's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 29 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 19. - It stands best on free plan and trial (C, above 74 of 122) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $25 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 86 of the 107 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 48 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** Nhost sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $300 a year. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Hasura, Postgres and Grafana among them, and has an API. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Hasura, Postgres, Grafana, GraphQL **Tags:** Databases, Public API ## Alternatives - [Appwrite Sites](https://toolgpa.com/tools/appwrite-sites): Git-based hosting for static and server-rendered sites on Appwrite. 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