Convex

Pricing

• Free - $0/mo with built-in limits: 1M function calls, 0.5 GB database storage, 1 GB file storage, 1-6 developers
• Starter - pay as you go beyond the free limits, e.g. $2.20 per additional 1M function calls
• Professional - $25 per developer/mo: 25M function calls, 50 GB database storage and 100 GB file storage included, 1-20 developers
• Business and Enterprise - $2,500/mo minimum: 50+ developers, SAML/SSO, service SLAs, dedicated deployments
• AI Gateway - model usage billed at OpenRouter rates with no markup, paid plans only

Install

npm create convex@latest

npm install convex

npx convex dev

Models

Not a model host. AI Gateway, available on paid plans including Starter, lets Convex actions call hundreds of models through the @convex-dev/ai-sdk-provider package or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint without provider API keys; you pick a model by passing its slug to convexGateway.

Recent changes

• Oct 15convex 1.47.0 adds staged schema validators with .staged() on defineTable, asks for confirmation before deploying index changes on large tables, and makes the envList MCP tool return only variable names by default.
• Sep 21AI Gateway launches for all paid teams: call models from Convex actions with usage on the Convex invoice and per-function cost tracking in the dashboard.
• Sep 16convex 1.46.0 adds .optional() to all validators, so v.string().optional() is equivalent to v.optional(v.string()).

Sources: Convex pricing, React quickstart, convex-js CHANGELOG, convex-js release tags, Introducing Convex AI Gateway

Similar Tools

Infrastructure

Supabase

Open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres. Auth, real-time subscriptions, storage, edge functions, and pgvector for AI embeddings. Generous free tier.

Infrastructure

Firebase

Google's BaaS platform. Firestore (NoSQL), Realtime Database, Auth, Cloud Functions, Hosting, and ML. Free Spark tier; pay-as-you-go Blaze.

Infrastructure

P

Prisma

TypeScript ORM with a schema-first workflow. Prisma Client gives full type safety; Prisma Migrate handles migrations. Prisma ORM 8 covers Postgres, MongoDB, and SQLite; MySQL still needs Prisma ORM 7.

Infrastructure

Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching. Free tier, instant database branches per PR, autoscaling compute, and scale-to-zero. Acquired by Databricks in 2025.

More Infrastructure Tools

Vercel

Deployment platform behind Next.js. Git push to deploy. Edge functions, image optimization, analytics. Free tier is generous.

C

Coolify

Self-hosted PaaS for deploying apps, databases, and services. Git-based deploys, Docker support, preview environments, and a clean UI.

Cloudflare

CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, and edge computing. Free tier handles most needs. This site uses Cloudflare for DNS and analytics. Workers for edge compute.