# Nile

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/databases/nile/

Postgres reshaped around tenants, with per-tenant databases and vector embeddings included rather than metered separately.

## Who it suits

Multi-tenant SaaS where every customer wants isolation — Nile makes a database per tenant the default shape rather than something you build on top of Postgres.

Consider something else if Several of the features on its own pricing table are marked Coming soon, including branching, backups and provisioned compute, so what is bought today is narrower than the table suggests.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Entry paid plan: $15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA. Scale is $350/month. ([source](https://www.thenile.dev/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Pricing model: Priced on queries rather than instances, with a $15 base for Pro. Nile's own framing is "Pay for queries, not for instances", and additional tokens are $0.05 per million. ([source](https://www.thenile.dev/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 5 GB on Pro, then $1.00 per additional GB. ([source](https://www.thenile.dev/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

### Execution

- Managed connection pooling: Supported ([source](https://www.thenile.dev/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

### Data

- Engine: PostgreSQL, with tenant isolation as a first-class concept — databases, tenant databases and vector embeddings are all described as unlimited. ([source](https://www.thenile.dev/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- Connection limit: 10,000 connections on Pro, with connection pooling included. ([source](https://www.thenile.dev/pricing), read 2026-09-06)
- When idle: No cold start on Pro — Nile lists it as a plan feature rather than a behaviour to configure. ([source](https://www.thenile.dev/pricing), read 2026-09-06)

## Compared with

- [Nile vs Neon](https://inetgeek.com/compare/neon-vs-nile/)
- [Nile vs Supabase](https://inetgeek.com/compare/supabase-vs-nile/)
- [Nile vs Prisma Postgres](https://inetgeek.com/compare/prisma-postgres-vs-nile/)