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www.thenile.dev · Managed databases
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Postgres reshaped around tenants, with per-tenant databases and vector embeddings included rather than metered separately.

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Entry paid plan$15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA. Scale is $350/month.
RegionsTwo regions selectable for a new database: AWS_US_WEST_2 (AWS US West, Oregon) and AWS_EU_CENTRAL_1 (AWS Europe, Frankfurt). The separate list-available-regions endpoint enumerates a third value, AZURE_EASTUS.
Free tierYes — Ongoing $0 Free plan: 50M query tokens, 1 GB storage, 500 connections, no pauses.
CategoryManaged databases

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 17 criteria comparedSources last checked

Nile pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA source ↗
Pricing model
Priced on queries rather than instances, with a $15 base for Pro source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Nile pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Nile's own site (thenile.dev) self-detects as: hosting — US hosting, Cloud PaaS, Cloud Hosting, Server Location · CDN — Edge Delivery Network · DNS — Enterprise DNS (category-level via BuiltWith, not a named vendor)

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Nile pricing

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Free tierYes — Ongoing $0 Free plan: 50M query tokens, 1 GB storage, 500 connections, no pauses.
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Kind of free offerFree tier
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Entry paid plan$15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA. Scale is $350/month.
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  • Pricing — Nile ↗

    “Pro For launching production workloads. With production SLA $ 15 / month [...] Scale For scale, more security and global presence $ 350 / month”

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Pricing modelPriced 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.
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  • Pricing — Nile ↗

    “Pay for queries Not for instances [...] 0.05 per million additional tokens Storage 5 GB $1.00 per additional GB”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Limits

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Storage (entry plan)5 GB on Pro, then $1.00 per additional GB.
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Memory (entry plan)No memory figure published: serverless compute is billed in query tokens, abstract units of CPU and memory, 50 million included on the Free plan.
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  • Pricing | Nile Database ↗

    “Query tokens are abstract units of CPU and memory used when queries are executed on the serverless compute. [...] The exact CPU and memory utilized by a query are abstracted, and users only need to care about query tokens [...] Serverless compute 50 million query tokens”

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Execution

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Managed connection poolingSupported
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Infrastructure

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RegionsTwo regions selectable for a new database: AWS_US_WEST_2 (AWS US West, Oregon) and AWS_EU_CENTRAL_1 (AWS Europe, Frankfurt). The separate list-available-regions endpoint enumerates a third value, AZURE_EASTUS.
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Data

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EnginePostgreSQL, with tenant isolation as a first-class concept — databases, tenant databases and vector embeddings are all described as unlimited.
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  • Pricing — Nile ↗

    “multi-tenant applications with Nile's Postgres Unlimited Databases Unlimited Tenants Pay for queries Not for instances Limitless vector embeddings”

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Connection limit10,000 connections on Pro, with connection pooling included.
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When idleNo cold start on Pro — Nile lists it as a plan feature rather than a behaviour to configure.
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Database branchingNot supported — Pricing marks Branching 'Coming soon': one branch Free, 50 Pro, unlimited Scale.
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Backup retentionThree backups taken daily; restore is request-based through support and available on paid tiers only. No retention window is published.
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  • Backup and Restore ↗

    “This is available for paid tiers only. We hope to make this process self-serve soon. [...] We take three backups daily to ensure your data is well-protected.”

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Compliance

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SOC 2Listed on the pricing plan comparison as 'Coming soon'; the Free and Pro columns show '-' for SOC 2.
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GDPR / data residencyRegion choice covers residency: a database can be provisioned in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt), which Nile presents as easing EU data-residency rules. From Nile's 2024-04-10 regions announcement; the live API region enum still lists AWS_EU_CENTRAL_1.
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  • Introducing: SaaS Anywhere on Postgres - for Speed and Compliance ↗

    “We started with us-west-2 (Oregon) and you now have the option to also provision a database in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt). [...] There are many regions with strict data residency regulations: EU, UK, parts of Canada, Japan, Australia [...] Having databases in the relevant regions make this a lot simpler and safer.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

Encryption at restStated for Nile Auth: all communication is encrypted using TLS and all stored data is encrypted at rest. Read in the Nile Auth FAQ; Nile publishes no platform-wide security page.
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Dedicated infrastructureProvisioned compute is dedicated to a single Nile customer; tenants can be placed on either serverless or provisioned compute. The pricing page separately marks Provisioned Compute 'Coming soon' (upto 4 VCPU on Pro).
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  • Architecture of Nile Postgres ↗

    “Serverless compute is built with true multitenancy, while provisioned compute is dedicated to a single Nile customer. [...] Tenants can be placed on either serverless or provisioned compute.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

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Nile pricing questions

How much does Nile cost?

$15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA. Scale is $350/month.

Pricing — Nile · read

How does Nile charge?

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.

Pricing — Nile · read

Does Nile have a free tier?

Yes.

Pricing | Nile Database · read

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