Layerbase
Serverless and managed databases for 18 engines
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Layerbase is a managed database platform built around flat monthly pricing instead of metered billing. One account gives you 18 database engines in the cloud, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, FerretDB (MongoDB wire protocol), Valkey, DuckDB, ClickHouse, QuestDB, and InfluxDB, all managed from a single dashboard with query consoles for every engine, automatic backups, database branching, and wake-on-connect hibernation. Plans are Free, Solo ($5/month), and Pro ($15/month). Dedicated servers ($35-$120/month) have no database or branch limits. All billing is unmetered, so your monthly bill is always predictable. Free-tier databases hibernate when idle and wake on connection instead of being deleted, so side projects keep working. Pro adds features like mTLS client certificates for PostgreSQL. The same team ships Layerbase Desktop, a macOS app for running and browsing local databases, and the Layerbase CLI on npm, which manages 21 engines locally for development, CI pipelines, and AI agents.
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Layerbase is self-hosted. We host our own primary Postgres database as well as Valkey for caching, MySQL (for a our link service), and several analytics and logging databases. We originally launched on Neon and as soon as we reached feature parity we switched over. We have branching for all engines, PITR for PG based engines, backup/restore, and a very nice web IDE for each engine. We cut our database hosting bills down from over $200/mo to $15/mo. We built this for our own needs.
I use the Solo tier in production, $5/mo flat fee for my blog. Neon was costing me nearly $50/mo on an average month. I'm already paying $15/mo for Redis on Upstash. I'm that over too when I have more free time. This is my new DB platform. And the Desktop IDE is so cool. I used to use DBNgin and TablePlus (which wasn't free) but I've replaced both of them locally for Layerbase desktop on Mac. Only 1 downside is it doesn't have AI tools built in to debug queries which seems like an obvious feature in 2026
Modern apps need two or three different databases so it's cool to see a place where you can get more than one DB in the same place. None of the major players have a free tier, nor do they support 20 different databases, so stoked to have found this, right up my alley.
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Branching for ALL DATABASES will be live this month
@robertjbass It is live now