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Best Plaid Alternatives

50 tools that can replace or complement Plaid

Pricing Comparison

Tool Free Plan Starting Price Rating
Plaid ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.2
YNAB ✗ No $99+ ★ 4.6
Supabase ✓ Yes Free / $25+ ★ 4.7
Firebase ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.4
Postman ✓ Yes Free / $14+ ★ 4.5
Stripe ✗ No $2.9+ ★ 4.7
Mint ✓ Yes Free / $4.99+ ★ 4.2
Empower (Personal Capital) ✓ Yes Free / $0.89+ ★ 4.3
Robinhood ✓ Yes Free / $5+ ★ 4.1
Acorns ✗ No $3+ ★ 4.2
Wealthfront ✗ No $0.25+ ★ 4.4
Swagger (SmartBear) ✓ Yes Free / $75+ ★ 4.3
RapidAPI ✓ Yes Free / $20+ ★ 4.1
Apigee ✗ No $0+ ★ 4.2
Kong ✓ Yes Free / $0.05+ ★ 4.3
Hono ✓ Yes Free ★ 4.7
Wise ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.6
AssemblyAI ✓ Yes Free / $0.12+ ★ 4.5
Deepgram ✓ Yes Free / $0.0036+ ★ 4.4
Amazon Web Services (AWS) ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.5
Microsoft Azure ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.4
Google Cloud Platform ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.4
Deno Deploy ✓ Yes Free / $20+ ★ 4.3
Medusa ✓ Yes Free ★ 4.4
Saleor ✓ Yes Free / $300+ ★ 4.2
PayPal ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.1
Venmo ✓ Yes Free / $1.75+ ★ 4.2
Segment ✓ Yes Free / $120+ ★ 4.3
Resend ✓ Yes Free / $20+ ★ 4.6
Hoppscotch ✓ Yes Free / $7+ ★ 4.5
Val Town ✓ Yes Free / $10+ ★ 4.4
Trigger.dev ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.4
Actual Budget ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.5
Greptile ✓ Yes Free / $100+ ★ 4.2
Novu ✓ Yes Free / $0.0025+ ★ 4.3
Ghostfolio ✓ Yes Free / $5.99+ ★ 4.3
Maybe Finance ✓ Yes Free / $0+ ★ 4.2
Insomnia ✓ Yes Free / $5+ ★ 4.2
SuperTokens ✓ Yes Free / $0.02+ ★ 4.3
Exa ✓ Yes Free / $100+ ★ 4.2
Tavily ✓ Yes Free / $50+ ★ 4.3
PocketGuard ✓ Yes Free / $7.99+ ★ 4.2
Goodbudget ✓ Yes Free / $10+ ★ 4.1
EveryDollar ✓ Yes Free / $17.99+ ★ 4.3
Pipedream ✓ Yes Free / $29+ ★ 4.5
Val Town ✓ Yes Free / $10+ ★ 4.2
Empower Personal Dashboard ✓ Yes Free ★ 4.3
Copilot Money ✗ No $10.99+ ★ 4.6
Twilio ✓ Yes Free ★ 4.3
Hasura ✓ Yes Free / $99+ ★ 4.4
Directus ✓ Yes Free / $99+ ★ 4.3

All Plaid Alternatives

YNAB icon

YNAB

★★★★★ 4.6
$99+

You Need A Budget — proactive budgeting app based on the envelope method.

  • Powerful budgeting method
  • Bank sync
  • Goal tracking
  • No free plan
  • Learning curve
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Supabase

★★★★★ 4.7
Free / $25+

Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres database, authentication, edge functions, and real-time subscriptions.

  • Full Postgres with SQL access
  • Generous free tier (500MB, 50K monthly active users)
  • Auth, storage, and edge functions included
  • Can be complex for non-developers
  • Pauses inactive free projects after 7 days
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Firebase

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $0+

Google's app development platform with NoSQL database, authentication, hosting, and cloud functions.

  • Generous free tier (Spark plan)
  • Real-time database syncing
  • Simple authentication setup
  • NoSQL can be limiting for complex queries
  • Costs unpredictable at scale
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Postman

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $14+

API development platform for designing, testing, documenting, and monitoring APIs with collaborative workspaces.

  • Industry standard for API testing and development
  • Collaborative workspaces for team API development
  • Auto-generated documentation from collections
  • Desktop app is resource-heavy
  • Free tier workspace limits restrictive
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Stripe

★★★★★ 4.7
$2.9+

Payment processing infrastructure for internet businesses with APIs for subscriptions, invoicing, and global payments.

  • Best-in-class developer documentation
  • Supports 135+ currencies and payment methods
  • Powerful subscription and billing management
  • 2.9% + 30c per transaction adds up
  • Account freezes can happen without warning
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Mint

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $4.99+

Personal finance management app by Intuit that aggregates bank accounts, tracks spending, creates budgets, and monitors credit scores in one dashboard.

  • Free comprehensive budgeting and tracking
  • Automatic categorization of transactions
  • Credit score monitoring included
  • Ad-supported free tier with product recommendations
  • Occasional sync issues with some banks
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Empower (Personal Capital)

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $0.89+

Financial planning and wealth management platform combining free budgeting and investment tracking tools with optional advisory services for high-net-worth individuals.

  • Excellent free investment tracking and net worth dashboard
  • Retirement planning calculator (Retirement Planner)
  • Fee analyzer identifies hidden investment fees
  • Wealth management requires $100K minimum
  • Sales calls after signing up for free tools
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Robinhood

★★★★☆ 4.1
Free / $5+

Commission-free stock, ETF, options, and cryptocurrency trading platform with a mobile-first design aimed at making investing accessible to everyone.

  • Commission-free trading on stocks and ETFs
  • Intuitive and beginner-friendly mobile app
  • Fractional shares available starting at $1
  • Limited research and analysis tools
  • No mutual funds or bonds available
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Acorns

★★★★☆ 4.2
$3+

Micro-investing app that automatically rounds up everyday purchases and invests the spare change into diversified ETF portfolios, plus banking and retirement accounts.

  • Effortless investing through round-ups
  • Expert-built diversified portfolios
  • Retirement account (IRA) option included
  • Flat fee structure expensive for small balances
  • Limited control over individual investments
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Wealthfront

★★★★☆ 4.4
$0.25+

Automated investment management platform (robo-advisor) offering tax-loss harvesting, financial planning, and high-yield cash accounts with low advisory fees.

  • Industry-leading tax-loss harvesting
  • Low 0.25% advisory fee
  • High-yield cash account with FDIC insurance
  • No human financial advisors available
  • $500 minimum investment to start
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Swagger (SmartBear)

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $75+

API development toolset including SwaggerHub for design, documentation, and collaboration on OpenAPI specifications, used by millions of developers worldwide.

  • Industry standard for API documentation (OpenAPI)
  • Interactive API documentation with try-it-out feature
  • Collaborative API design on SwaggerHub
  • SwaggerHub paid plans needed for team collaboration
  • OpenAPI spec can be verbose for complex APIs
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RapidAPI

★★★★☆ 4.1
Free / $20+

World's largest API marketplace connecting developers with thousands of third-party APIs, providing a single dashboard for testing, monitoring, and managing API subscriptions.

  • Massive catalog of 40,000+ APIs in one place
  • Unified billing and authentication for all APIs
  • Built-in testing and code snippet generation
  • API quality varies significantly across providers
  • Some APIs have unreliable uptime
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Apigee

★★★★☆ 4.2
$0+

Google Cloud's API management platform for designing, securing, analyzing, and scaling APIs with features for monetization, developer portals, and traffic management.

  • Enterprise-grade API management backed by Google Cloud
  • Comprehensive analytics and monitoring
  • Built-in API monetization capabilities
  • Complex and expensive for small teams
  • Steep learning curve for full platform
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Kong

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $0.05+

Cloud-native API gateway and service connectivity platform offering traffic management, security, observability, and plugin extensibility for microservices architectures.

  • Open-source core with large plugin ecosystem
  • Sub-millisecond latency for API requests
  • Platform-agnostic deployment (cloud, on-prem, hybrid)
  • Enterprise features require paid license
  • Configuration complexity for advanced setups
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Hono

★★★★★ 4.7
Free

Ultrafast web framework for building APIs on the edge, supporting Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, and Node.js with TypeScript-first development.

  • Ultrafast performance across all runtimes
  • Runs on any JavaScript runtime (Workers, Deno, Bun, Node)
  • Type-safe routing and validation with TypeScript
  • Smaller community than Express or Fastify
  • Documentation still growing
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Wise

★★★★★ 4.6
Free / $0+

International money transfer platform offering multi-currency accounts, debit cards, and business payment tools with transparent low-cost exchange rates.

  • Transparent fees with real mid-market exchange rates
  • Multi-currency account holds 40+ currencies
  • Debit card for spending abroad with no markups
  • Not a full bank (limited banking features)
  • Some currency routes slower than others
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AssemblyAI

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $0.12+

AI-powered speech-to-text API for transcription, summarization, sentiment analysis, and audio intelligence with state-of-the-art accuracy.

  • Industry-leading transcription accuracy
  • Real-time and async transcription support
  • Built-in audio intelligence (sentiment, topics, entities)
  • API-only (no consumer-facing UI)
  • Per-hour pricing can add up for high volume
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Deepgram

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $0.0036+

AI speech platform offering ultra-fast transcription, text-to-speech, and speech understanding APIs built on custom deep learning models.

  • Extremely fast transcription (up to 40x real-time)
  • Competitive accuracy with custom models
  • Both STT and TTS in one platform
  • Developer-focused with no consumer app
  • Custom model training requires enterprise plan
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $0+

World's most comprehensive cloud platform offering 200+ services including compute, storage, databases, AI/ML, analytics, and serverless from global data centers.

  • Most extensive service catalog of any cloud provider
  • Global infrastructure with 30+ regions worldwide
  • 12-month free tier covering many services
  • Complex pricing that is hard to predict
  • Steep learning curve with overwhelming service count
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Microsoft Azure

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $0+

Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering infrastructure, AI services, DevOps tools, and seamless integration with Microsoft 365 and enterprise software.

  • Best integration with Microsoft ecosystem (365, AD, Teams)
  • Strong hybrid cloud support with Azure Arc
  • Enterprise-grade compliance and security
  • Portal can be confusing with inconsistent UX
  • Documentation quality varies across services
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Google Cloud Platform

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $0+

Google's cloud platform excelling in data analytics, machine learning, Kubernetes, and serverless computing with strong open-source commitments.

  • Best-in-class data and analytics tools (BigQuery)
  • Leading Kubernetes offering (GKE) from its creators
  • Clean, modern console and developer experience
  • Smaller service catalog than AWS
  • Enterprise support and sales lag behind AWS/Azure
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Deno Deploy

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $20+

Globally distributed serverless JavaScript/TypeScript platform by Deno, offering zero-config deployments at the edge with built-in KV storage and queues.

  • Deploys to 35+ edge locations automatically
  • Zero-config with native TypeScript support
  • Built-in KV database and message queues
  • Limited to Deno runtime (not Node.js compatible for all packages)
  • Smaller ecosystem than established platforms
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Medusa

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free

Open-source headless commerce platform for developers offering modular architecture, multi-region support, and full customization via Node.js and TypeScript.

  • Fully open-source and developer-friendly
  • Headless architecture for any frontend framework
  • Built-in multi-region and multi-currency support
  • Requires development resources to set up
  • Newer platform with smaller ecosystem
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Saleor

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $300+

GraphQL-first headless e-commerce platform built with Python and React, offering enterprise features with open-source flexibility and cloud hosting.

  • GraphQL API-first architecture for modern frontends
  • Enterprise features in free open-source edition
  • Strong multi-channel commerce capabilities
  • Cloud hosting is expensive for startups
  • Smaller community than Shopify/WooCommerce
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PayPal

★★★★☆ 4.1
Free / $0+

Global digital payments platform enabling online payments, money transfers, merchant services, and buy-now-pay-later for consumers and businesses worldwide.

  • Accepted by millions of merchants globally
  • Buyer and seller protection programs
  • No monthly fees for basic accounts
  • Transaction fees (2.99%+ for merchants) are high
  • Account freezes and holds frustrate sellers
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Venmo

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $1.75+

Social payments app for splitting bills, sending money to friends, and making purchases with a social feed, debit card, and crypto trading features.

  • Free person-to-person payments from bank/debit
  • Social feed makes splitting bills easy and fun
  • Widely adopted among US millennials and Gen Z
  • US-only (no international support)
  • Instant transfers cost 1.75% fee
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Segment

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $120+

Customer data platform (CDP) that collects, cleans, and routes user data from all touchpoints to analytics, marketing, and warehouse destinations.

  • Single API to collect data sent to 400+ destinations
  • Eliminates data silos with unified customer profiles
  • Free plan with 1,000 visitors/month
  • Expensive at scale (pricing jumps significantly)
  • Implementation complexity for large organizations
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Resend

★★★★★ 4.6
Free / $20+

Modern email API for developers offering transactional email delivery with React Email integration, webhooks, and excellent developer experience.

  • Best developer experience for sending emails
  • React Email for building templates with components
  • Free tier with 100 emails/day (3,000/month)
  • Marketing email features are minimal
  • Newer platform with less enterprise track record
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Hoppscotch

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $7+

Open-source API development ecosystem offering a lightweight Postman alternative with REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and real-time testing capabilities in the browser.

  • Open-source and self-hostable
  • Lightweight and fast (browser-based, no download)
  • Supports REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, SSE, Socket.IO
  • Fewer features than Postman for enterprise use
  • Limited mock server capabilities
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Val Town

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $10+

Social coding platform for writing and deploying small scripts (vals) as serverless functions, scheduled tasks, or APIs with instant sharing and collaboration.

  • Instant deployment of scripts with no infrastructure
  • Social platform (fork, remix, share vals)
  • Built-in persistence (SQLite, blob storage)
  • Not suited for complex applications
  • Execution time and memory limits on free plan
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Trigger.dev

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $0+

Open-source background job framework for TypeScript offering long-running tasks, scheduled jobs, and event-driven workflows with built-in retries and observability.

  • Write background jobs in TypeScript (not YAML/config)
  • Built-in retries, queues, and concurrency controls
  • Excellent developer experience with type safety
  • TypeScript only (no Python/Go support)
  • Cloud pricing based on compute time
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Actual Budget

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $0+

Open-source envelope budgeting app offering local-first personal finance management with bank sync, goal tracking, and reporting with optional self-hosting.

  • Open-source with no subscription fees
  • Local-first with optional sync
  • Beautiful and fast interface
  • Self-hosting required for sync features
  • Smaller community than YNAB
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Greptile

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $100+

AI-powered codebase understanding API that indexes repositories to answer natural language questions about code, generate documentation, and power code review.

  • Deep semantic understanding of entire repositories
  • API-first for embedding in your own tools
  • Supports private repos across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
  • API-only (no standalone consumer product)
  • Indexing time for large repos can be slow
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Novu

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $0.0025+

Open-source notification infrastructure for developers providing a unified API to manage in-app, email, SMS, push, and chat notifications with subscriber preferences.

  • Single API for all notification channels
  • Open-source with self-hosting option
  • Built-in notification center UI component
  • Complex setup for advanced use cases
  • Documentation has gaps for edge cases
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Ghostfolio

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $5.99+

Open-source wealth management platform for tracking stocks, ETFs, crypto, and other assets with portfolio analytics, allocation views, and self-hosting capability.

  • Open-source with self-hosting option
  • Privacy-focused (no data selling or ads)
  • Supports stocks, ETFs, crypto, commodities
  • Limited broker integrations (manual entry mostly)
  • Smaller community than commercial alternatives
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Maybe Finance

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $0+

Open-source personal finance and wealth management app offering net worth tracking, investment management, budgeting, and financial planning tools.

  • Fully open-source and free to self-host
  • Comprehensive financial dashboard
  • No ads, no data selling, full privacy
  • Self-hosting only (no managed cloud option yet)
  • Still in active development (features incomplete)
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Insomnia

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $5+

API design and testing platform by Kong offering a beautiful desktop client for REST, GraphQL, and gRPC with Git sync, environment management, and collaboration.

  • Beautiful and intuitive desktop application
  • Git-based sync for version control of API specs
  • Plugin system for extending functionality
  • Kong acquisition changed direction (cloud-focused)
  • Free tier became more limited over time
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SuperTokens

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $0.02+

Open-source authentication solution offering email/password, social login, passwordless, and multi-factor auth with self-hosting option and drop-in UI components.

  • Open-source with free self-hosting
  • Pre-built UI components for quick integration
  • Session management with anti-CSRF protection
  • Smaller ecosystem than Auth0 or Firebase Auth
  • Documentation has gaps for complex setups

Exa

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $100+

AI-powered search API that finds content using neural embeddings instead of keywords, designed for developers building AI applications that need web knowledge.

  • Semantic search beyond keywords
  • Clean API for developers
  • Returns full page content
  • Developer-focused - no consumer product
  • Free tier has limited requests

Tavily

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $50+

Search API built specifically for AI agents and LLM applications, providing optimized search results with content extraction for retrieval-augmented generation.

  • Purpose-built for AI/LLM apps
  • Generous free tier (1000 calls/month)
  • Returns clean extracted content
  • Limited to API use only
  • No consumer-facing product

PocketGuard

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $7.99+

Personal finance app that shows how much spendable money you have after bills, goals, and necessities, simplifying budgeting into one In My Pocket number.

  • Simple In My Pocket concept
  • Automatic bill detection
  • Bank-level encryption
  • Plus required for custom categories
  • Limited investment tracking

Goodbudget

★★★★☆ 4.1
Free / $10+

Digital envelope budgeting app based on the proven envelope method, designed for couples and families to plan together and track spending by category.

  • Based on proven envelope method
  • Great for couples/shared budgeting
  • Works on web and mobile
  • Manual transaction entry by default
  • Limited reporting in free version

EveryDollar

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $17.99+

Zero-based budgeting app from Ramsey Solutions that helps you assign every dollar a job, following Dave Ramsey financial principles for debt-free living.

  • Simple zero-based budget approach
  • Based on proven Ramsey method
  • Custom budget fund tracking
  • Bank sync requires premium ($17.99/mo)
  • No investment tracking

Pipedream

★★★★★ 4.5
Free / $29+

Developer-focused integration and automation platform that combines no-code connectors with Node.js/Python code steps for building powerful API workflows.

  • Write real code (Node/Python) in workflows
  • Generous free tier
  • 1000+ pre-built integrations
  • Requires coding knowledge for advanced use
  • UI less visual than Zapier

Val Town

★★★★☆ 4.2
Free / $10+

Social website for writing, deploying, and sharing small programs (vals) that run on the cloud, like a social network for serverless functions.

  • Instant deployment of code snippets
  • Social coding with remixable vals
  • Built-in cron, email, and HTTP triggers
  • Limited execution time
  • Not for full applications
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Empower Personal Dashboard

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free

Free financial dashboard for tracking net worth, investments, and retirement planning.

  • Free tracking tools
  • Investment analysis
  • Retirement planner
  • Advisor upsell
  • Limited budgeting
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Copilot Money

★★★★★ 4.6
$10.99+

Beautiful personal finance app for iOS with automatic categorization and insights.

  • Beautiful design
  • Automatic categorization
  • Investment tracking
  • iOS only
  • No free tier
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Twilio

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free

Cloud communications platform with APIs for SMS, voice, video, and email.

  • Comprehensive APIs
  • Reliable infrastructure
  • Great documentation
  • Complex pricing
  • Expensive at scale
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Hasura

★★★★☆ 4.4
Free / $99+

Instant GraphQL and REST APIs on your data with authorization and caching.

  • Instant APIs
  • Real-time subscriptions
  • Great developer experience
  • PostgreSQL-focused
  • Complex authorization
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Directus

★★★★☆ 4.3
Free / $99+

Open-source headless CMS and data platform wrapping any SQL database with APIs.

  • Open source
  • Database-first
  • Beautiful admin UI
  • Self-hosting required for free
  • Smaller community

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