Is Convex worth the price?
Convex Free tier is generous for side projects: 1M function calls/mo and 0.5GB storage at no cost.
Professional at $25/dev/mo unlocks 25M function calls and 50GB storage with reasonable overage rates. The real value is the reactive backend — real-time sync, ACID transactions, and serverless functions in one package.
But costs can surprise at scale: database bandwidth at $0.20-0.22/GB and action compute at $0.30-0.33/GB-hr add up with heavy real-time workloads.
Pricing Plans
Free
$0
- 1-6 developers
- 40 deployments
- 1M function calls/month
- 0.5 GB database storage
- 1 GB file storage
- Chef AI App Generation
Professional
$25/developer
- 120 deployments
- 25M function calls/month
- 50 GB database storage
- 100 GB file storage
- Custom domains
- Automatic backups
- Email support
Hidden Costs & Gotchas
EU hosting adds a 30% surcharge on all usage — significant for European teams
Database bandwidth overage at $0.20-0.22/GB can spike with real-time sync patterns
Vector storage at $0.50-0.55/GB/mo is 2.5x the cost of regular database storage
Action compute at $0.30-0.33/GB-hr means long-running serverless functions get expensive fast
Which Plan Do You Need?
Teams building real-time collaborative apps
Startups wanting a batteries-included serverless backend
Developers who value type-safe, reactive data patterns
Projects needing ACID transactions without managing infrastructure
Our Recommendation
startup
Free tier is excellent for MVPs. Apply for the startup program — up to 1 year of free Professional access. Watch bandwidth usage once you add real-time features.
enterprise
Professional at $25/dev/mo with pay-as-you-go overages keeps costs predictable. Budget 30% extra if deploying in EU region.
How Convex Compares to Competitors
Supabase Pro costs $25/mo (flat, not per-dev) with 8GB database and 100K MAUs — cheaper per-seat but lacks built-in real-time reactivity. Firebase Blaze is pure pay-as-you-go with $0.18/100K reads — cheaper for read-heavy apps but more expensive for write-heavy real-time. Neon starts at $19/mo for serverless Postgres but is database-only — no built-in functions or file storage. Convex is pricier but eliminates the need to glue together separate services.
