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Xata
Serverless Postgres with branching, zero-downtime schema changes + OpenAI embeddings
Serverless Postgres platform (pgroll migrations, branching, Copilot). Focus on zero-downtime schema changes + dev workflows. Built on top of vanilla Postgres.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | $0. 15GB storage. 10 branches. Unlimited databases. Community support. |
| Pro | $20/mo | $20/mo + usage. More compute, higher concurrency, priority support. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom. SSO, dedicated support, VPC peering, SOC 2. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | branching | Git-like DB branching — PR preview per branch | Branching |
| — | copilot | Xata Copilot — AI assistant for SQL + schema | Copilot |
| — | migration tool | pgroll (OSS, Apache-2.0) — multi-version schema migrations with zero downtime | Migrations |
| — | openai integration | Native OpenAI embeddings + Q&A over data | Embeddings |
| — | pgroll oss | pgroll is a separate OSS tool — usable without Xata on any Postgres | pgroll OSS |
| — | pg version | Postgres 15+ (standard, not forked) | Postgres |
| — | pivot change | Pivoted in 2024 from custom DB layer to pure Postgres. Old Xata Edge API deprecated. | Platform pivot |
| — | vs neon | Similar branching model to Neon; differentiator = pgroll + Copilot + workflow focus | Neon comparison |
Features
- Ask Xata (OpenAI) — Natural language Q&A over data.
- Branching — Copy-on-write DB branches.
- DB Metrics — Query perf + connection metrics.
- Migration GUI — Visual schema change workflow.
- pgroll Migrations — Zero-downtime schema evolution via views.
- PITR Backups — Point-in-time restore.
- PR Preview Environments — Branch-per-PR with CI integration.
- Search — Built-in full-text search indexing.
- Vanilla Postgres — Unmodified Postgres 15+.
- Vector Search — pgvector-based embeddings + Q&A.
- Xata Copilot — AI SQL + schema assistant.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgres | Direct Postgres (pgroll) | other | — |
| pgroll-cli | pgroll CLI (OSS) | cli | 0.x |
| cli | xata CLI | cli | 0.x |
| dashboard | Xata Dashboard | other | — |
| sdk-ts | @xata.io/client (TS) | sdk | 0.x |
| sdk-python | xata (Python) | sdk | 1.x |
| rest-api | Xata REST API | rest | v1 |
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