PRICING

Pay for what you use.

Powabase is the all-in-one platform for building AI apps with Postgres, RAG, and agents. Start free. Every paid plan comes with a monthly credit balance equal to the subscription — spend it on compute hours, per-call costs, MAU overages, and storage. Unused credits roll over month to month. The bigger the plan, the cheaper each unit.

Bring your own LLM keys — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and OpenRouter. API keys are stored per-project and encrypted at rest. Or skip keys entirely and pay for inference from your Powabase credits.

Free

$0forever

All platform features. Sign up, start a project, ship.

  • $10 in free credits on sign-up
  • Sandbox compute by default
  • Add a card to upgrade compute tiers — no subscription required
  • Per-project Postgres + pgvector
  • Auth, Storage, Realtime
  • RAG pipeline with OCR + four indexing strategies
  • Agents, multi-agent orchestrations, workflows
  • Vector / BM25 / hybrid / tree retrieval + reranking
  • Built-in tools + custom HTTP + MCP servers
  • Bring your own LLM keys
  • Pay-as-you-go — no monthly minimum, no commitment
  • Inactive projects suspend after 7 days, delete after 30

Self Serve

$25/month

For solo devs and small teams running steady workloads.

$25 in monthly credits — spend on anything

  • Up to 25% cheaper per-call costs vs. Free
  • 15% cheaper per-hour compute vs. Free
  • Lower overage rates on EBS, S3, egress, requests
  • Email support

Scale

$300/month

For teams running production AI workloads at higher throughput.

$300 in monthly credits — spend on anything

  • Up to 50% cheaper per-call costs vs. Free
  • 20% cheaper per-hour compute vs. Free
  • Lowest overage rates on EBS, S3, egress, requests
  • Priority live support

Enterprise

Custom

Production-grade scale, procurement-ready terms, and a deployment model that fits your security posture.

Managed on Powabase Cloud or private hosting in your VPC / on-prem

  • Free MVP build for select annual commitments
  • BYO Cloud or data center
  • Regional data residency (US, EU); air-gapped supported
  • SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPA, SLA
  • SSO (SAML / OIDC), audit logs, RBAC
  • Priority support with SLAs + named contact
  • Dedicated solutions engineer

See per-call and per-tier rates below — paid plans pay the cheaper columns.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Compute, storage, and auth.

Every project runs on its own isolated stack. Pick a tier by workload size — compute is billed per hour, with bundled storage, egress, and request quotas. Auth metering (MAU, SSO, Phone MFA) is billed separately at flat rates.

Per-hour rates step down as you upgrade plans — Free → Self Serve → Scale.

Sandbox

Postgres

0.5 vCPU / 500 MB

AI Runtime

0.5 vCPU / 500 MB

Free

$0.0346

Self Serve

$0.0296

Scale

$0.0272

Default for Free plan projects

Builder

Postgres

0.5 vCPU / 1 GiB

AI Runtime

1 vCPU / 1.5 GiB

Free

$0.0470

Self Serve

$0.0403

Scale

$0.0370

Solo dev's first agentic feature

Workshop

Postgres

1 vCPU / 2 GiB

AI Runtime

1.5 vCPU / 3.5 GiB

Free

$0.0932

Self Serve

$0.0799

Scale

$0.0733

Team's first deployed AI app

Studio

Postgres

2 vCPU / 4 GiB

AI Runtime

3.5 vCPU / 8.5 GiB

Free

$0.2030

Self Serve

$0.1740

Scale

$0.1595

Multi-agent workloads

Foundry

Dedicated QoS

Postgres

4 vCPU / 8 GiB

AI Runtime

7 vCPU / 9 GiB

Free

$0.4032

Self Serve

$0.3456

Scale

$0.3168

High-throughput orchestrations

¹ AI runtime covers the API gateway, RAG pipeline, agent runtime, workflow engine, and sidecars (auth, storage, realtime, pg-meta, PostgREST). Isolated per project.

BUNDLED PER PROJECT

· Included with every paid tier
  • Sandbox

    EBS storage
    2 GB
    S3 storage
    1 GB
    Internet egress
    5 GB/mo
    S3 PUT
    10k/mo
    S3 GET
    50k/mo
  • Builder

    EBS storage
    8 GB
    S3 storage
    5 GB
    Internet egress
    20 GB/mo
    S3 PUT
    50k/mo
    S3 GET
    250k/mo
  • Workshop

    EBS storage
    8 GB
    S3 storage
    10 GB
    Internet egress
    40 GB/mo
    S3 PUT
    100k/mo
    S3 GET
    500k/mo
  • Studio

    EBS storage
    20 GB
    S3 storage
    30 GB
    Internet egress
    100 GB/mo
    S3 PUT
    250k/mo
    S3 GET
    1.5M/mo
  • Foundry

    EBS storage
    50 GB
    S3 storage
    75 GB
    Internet egress
    200 GB/mo
    S3 PUT
    750k/mo
    S3 GET
    3.5M/mo
See overage rates

Pass-through pricing — only charged for usage above your bundle.

  • EBS gp3 storage

    $/GB-mo

    Free

    $0.134

    Self Serve

    $0.115

    Scale

    $0.106

  • EBS gp3 IOPS overage

    $/IOPS-mo

    Free

    $0.007

    Self Serve

    $0.006

    Scale

    $0.0055

  • EBS gp3 throughput overage

    $/MB/s-mo

    Free

    $0.056

    Self Serve

    $0.048

    Scale

    $0.044

  • NAT Gateway data

    $/GB

    Free

    $0.063

    Self Serve

    $0.054

    Scale

    $0.0495

  • S3 storage

    $/GB-mo

    Free

    $0.0322

    Self Serve

    $0.0276

    Scale

    $0.0253

  • S3 PUT/COPY/POST/LIST

    $/1k req

    Free

    $0.0077

    Self Serve

    $0.0066

    Scale

    $0.00605

  • S3 GET/SELECT

    $/1k req

    Free

    $0.000616

    Self Serve

    $0.000528

    Scale

    $0.000484

  • Internet egress

    $/GB

    Free

    $0.126

    Self Serve

    $0.108

    Scale

    $0.099

AUTH METERING

Flat rates across all tiers — no markup, no tier discount.

  • · Monthly active users authenticated via email, password, OAuth, or magic link.
  • · Enterprise SSO (SAML / OIDC) users. Not available on Free or Builder.
  • · Phone-based MFA. SMS billed at carrier list price + 10% with a default $50/mo spend cap.
  • Sandbox

    Regular MAU

    Included
    50,000
    Overage

    SSO MAU

    Included
    Overage
    not available

    Phone MFA + SMS

    MFA
    not available
    Per-SMS
  • Builder

    Regular MAU

    Included
    50,000
    Overage
    $0.00325/MAU

    SSO MAU

    Included
    Overage
    not available

    Phone MFA + SMS

    MFA
    not available
    Per-SMS
  • Workshop

    Regular MAU

    Included
    100,000
    Overage
    $0.00325/MAU

    SSO MAU

    Included
    50
    Overage
    $0.015/MAU

    Phone MFA + SMS

    MFA
    $70/mo
    Per-SMS
    carrier list × 1.10
  • Studio

    Regular MAU

    Included
    100,000
    Overage
    $0.00325/MAU

    SSO MAU

    Included
    50
    Overage
    $0.015/MAU

    Phone MFA + SMS

    MFA
    $70/mo
    Per-SMS
    carrier list × 1.10
  • Foundry

    Regular MAU

    Included
    100,000
    Overage
    $0.00325/MAU

    SSO MAU

    Included
    50
    Overage
    $0.015/MAU

    Phone MFA + SMS

    MFA
    $70/mo
    Per-SMS
    carrier list × 1.10

Third-Party MAU (external identity providers): $0.000325/MAU on all paid tiers. Not available on Free.

See example bills

Sample monthly bills — your own usage may vary.

Workshop · Self Serve · 80K MAU, within bundle

  • Compute (Workshop @ Self Serve)

    1 × 730 hr · $0.0799/hr$58.31
  • Storage / egress / requests

    within bundle$0.00
  • Regular MAU

    80,000 (within 100k)$0.00
Total$58.31/mo

Workshop · Self Serve · 130K MAU, 25 SSO, Phone MFA + 5K SMS

  • Compute (Workshop @ Self Serve)

    1 × 730 hr · $0.0799/hr$58.31
  • Storage / egress / requests

    within bundle$0.00
  • Regular MAU overage

    30,000 over 100k · $0.00325/MAU$97.50
  • SSO MAU

    25 (within 50)$0.00
  • Phone MFA enablement

    1 · $70/mo$70.00
  • SMS pass-through (US)

    5,000 messages · $0.0071/msg$35.50
Total$261.31/mo

Foundry · Scale · 250K MAU, 100 SSO, Phone MFA + 30K SMS

  • Compute (Foundry @ Scale)

    1 × 730 hr · $0.3168/hr$231.26
  • Storage / egress / requests

    within bundle$0.00
  • Regular MAU overage

    150,000 over 100k · $0.00325/MAU$487.50
  • SSO MAU overage

    50 over 50 · $0.015/MAU$0.75
  • Phone MFA enablement

    1 · $70/mo$70.00
  • SMS pass-through (US)

    30,000 messages · $0.0071/msg$213.00
Total$1,002.51/mo

PRICING BY ACTION

Per-call costs.

Per-call cost to invoke Powabase's built-in features. LLM inference is billed separately based on token usage with each supported provider — you can bring your own LLM API key or pay through Powabase.

Web — paid APIs

  • web_searchper call
    Free: $0.040Self Serve: $0.030Scale: $0.020

    Web search via Exa — relevance-ranked results, suitable for most agent lookups.

  • web_scrapeper page
    Free: $0.010Self Serve: $0.0075Scale: $0.005

    Firecrawl-backed fetch that returns clean markdown for a single page.

Indexing

  • indexing_graphindexper 1k tokens
    Free: $0.010Self Serve: $0.0075Scale: $0.005

    GraphIndex builds an entity-relation graph over the corpus to power multi-hop queries.

  • indexing_doc2jsonper 1k tokens
    Free: $0.008Self Serve: $0.006Scale: $0.004

    Doc2JSON sliding-window extraction that turns long documents into structured records aligned to your schema.

  • indexing_pageindexper 1k tokens
    Free: $0.006Self Serve: $0.0045Scale: $0.003

    PageIndex builds a hierarchical tree over the document — best for reasoning over long structured docs.

  • metadata_enrichmentper 1k tokens
    Free: $0.004Self Serve: $0.003Scale: $0.002

    Adds titles, summaries, and tags at indexing time so retrieval can filter and rerank on richer metadata.

  • indexing_chunkembedper 1k tokens
    Free: $0.002Self Serve: $0.0015Scale: $0.001

    ChunkEmbed — classic chunking plus embedding into pgvector. The default and cheapest strategy.

Extraction

  • ocr_pagesper page
    Free: $0.006Self Serve: $0.0045Scale: $0.003

    VLM-based page extraction (LightOnOCR-2, Mistral, or PaddleOCR) — the default for every ingested document so a single file with mixed scanned and text-extractable pages is handled correctly. If you know the source is all native text, opt into faster text-only parsers per ingestion run: OpenDataLoader, PyMuPDF (fitz), or pdfplumber.

Retrieval

  • tree_searchper call
    Free: $0.010Self Serve: $0.0075Scale: $0.005

    PageIndex tree-walk retrieval — navigates the document hierarchy instead of flat top-k chunks.

  • reranker_callper call
    Free: $0.010Self Serve: $0.0075Scale: $0.005

    Cross-encoder rerank via Cohere, Voyage, Jina, or ZeroEntropy — applied after retrieval to sharpen top results.

  • hybrid_searchper call
    Free: $0.004Self Serve: $0.003Scale: $0.002

    Vector + BM25 with reciprocal-rank fusion — Powabase's default retrieval mode.

  • query_enrichmentper call
    Free: $0.004Self Serve: $0.003Scale: $0.002

    Query rewriting or HyDE — expands the user's question before search to improve recall.

  • bm25_searchper call
    Free: $0.002Self Serve: $0.0015Scale: $0.001

    BM25 / full-text search over your tables — keyword-precise, no embeddings needed.

  • vector_searchper call
    Free: $0.002Self Serve: $0.0015Scale: $0.001

    Plain cosine search over pgvector embeddings — fastest path when you already know the question shape.

Agents & orchestrations

  • orchestration_runper run
    Free: $0.004Self Serve: $0.003Scale: $0.002

    Multi-agent orchestration base fee — covers the supervisor loop that routes between agents.

  • agent_runper run
    Free: $0.002Self Serve: $0.0015Scale: $0.001

    Base fee for a single ReAct agent invocation, before per-tool charges.

  • agent_tool_callper call
    Free: $0.002Self Serve: $0.0015Scale: $0.001

    One tool invocation from an agent — custom HTTP tools, MCP servers, or generic builtins.

  • agent_tool_code_executeper call
    Free: $0.002Self Serve: $0.0015Scale: $0.001

    Sandboxed code execution called from an agent — isolated runtime, no infra to manage.

Workflows

  • workflow_runper run
    Free: $0.002Self Serve: $0.0015Scale: $0.001

    Base fee per workflow run — the visual / API workflow engine built into Powabase.

  • workflow_block_codeper call
    Free: $0.002Self Serve: $0.0015Scale: $0.001

    A code block inside a workflow — runs your snippet in the sandboxed code executor.

  • workflow_block_external_apiper call
    Free: $0.002Self Serve: $0.0015Scale: $0.001

    External HTTP block in a workflow — outbound calls to third-party APIs.