Convex Pricing in May 2026

Convex's pricing follows tiered structure: Free Plan with reasonable limits, Pro at $25/month for production-scale + advanced features, Enterprise custom-quote. Real-world Convex bills for SaaS products land at $25-300/month for early-stage; mid-stage products hit $1K-5K/month.

The Free Plan offer is genuinely valuable for early-stage validation. The strategic decision: Convex's value is the deeply integrated reactivity: queries automatically reactive across clients, no polling or websocket plumbing, with strong TypeScript ergonomics. For broader BaaS alternatives, Supabase is the closest BaaS alternative with broader scope (Postgres + auth + realtime + storage + edge functions) — usually preferred when Postgres-compatibility and traditional SQL matter more than reactivity. Firebase is the Google alternative with mature mobile SDKs and Firestore's document model. PlanetScale, Neon, and Xata target serverless Postgres without the BaaS bundling. For specifically reactive databases, RethinkDB (legacy) and Meteor (legacy) pioneered the model; Convex has modernized it. Liveblocks targets real-time collaboration features specifically (cursor sync, presence, conflict resolution) rather than full backend. Replicache and Reflect target sync-engines for offline-first apps with different architecture. Yjs handles CRDT-based collaboration. Triplit is the newer competitor with similar reactive sync positioning. Jazz.tools targets local-first sync with similar focus. For specifically WebSockets and realtime alone, Supabase Realtime, Pusher, Ably, and PartyKit handle this without full BaaS. For specifically TypeScript-first backend with strong types, tRPC + Postgres handles different patterns. Convex's distinctive position is the reactive-database model with TypeScript-first DX.