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Layerbase Cloud is the easy way to run a database in production: 18 engines, a free tier with no credit card, and flat monthly plans. Layerbase Desktop brings the full engine suite and admin UI to your laptop as a local runner and multi-database IDE, and the Layerbase CLI runs the same engine runtime from the terminal with native binaries, no containers required.

Neon, PlanetScale, Supabase, Railway, Render, Aiven, Upstash, DigitalOcean Managed Databases, Turso, Vercel KV, Algolia (we host Meilisearch, the open-source alternative, with a real console), and MongoDB Atlas (with branching, which Atlas does not offer, via FerretDB). More engines than any single one of them, and a free tier that does not expire.

Free databases hibernate after 1 hour of inactivity and wake on the next connection (typically 1-5 seconds). Paid plans hibernate after 6 hours, and pinning a database to your always-on pool keeps it from hibernating entirely.

Open the database in the /cloud dashboard and click Restore. This is the only way to bring an archived database back; archived databases reject connection attempts at the network level.

MongoDB's SSPL license restricts how managed providers can offer it. Apache-licensed FerretDB implements the MongoDB wire protocol on PostgreSQL, so existing drivers and common CRUD, aggregation, index, and transaction workflows keep working. Mongo-only features such as change streams and Atlas Search are not supported.

Yes. Layerbase has guided, read-once migrations for Cloudant to CouchDB, MongoDB Atlas to FerretDB, Turso to libSQL, and other supported sources. The migration reads the source without modifying it.

Layerbase Desktop is free for personal use on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Get it from the desktop page.

Free requires no credit card, includes 8 engines, and hibernates databases after 1 hour idle. Solo is $5/mo for one always-on Standard database. Pro is $15/mo for up to 10 databases, every engine, and an allocatable always-on pool. Pro pool blocks are $10/mo and paid-plan team seats are $3/member/mo. Billing is flat, with no usage meters.