- Free allowance
- AuraDB Free, quoted from the quotas page: 'AuraDB Free: A perpetual free tier for learning, prototyping, and small projects' with Nodes '200,000', Relationships '400,000' and Storage '1GB'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap400,000 relationships caps a graph before the node count does for any connected dataset, because the average degree in a real graph is above 2; the 1 GB storage ceiling is the third constraint and usually arrives at the same time.
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | AuraDB Free, quoted from the quotas page: 'AuraDB Free: A perpetual free tier for learning, prototyping, and small projects' with Nodes '200,000', Relationships '400,000' and Storage '1GB'. Vendor support adds: 'after a period of 72 hours of inactivity, we will automatically pause it ... If the database remains paused for 30 days, it will be deleted by the system.' unit hours; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-free |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) 400,000 relationships caps a graph before the node count does for any connected dataset, because the average degree in a real graph is above 2; the 1 GB storage ceiling is the third constraint and usually arrives at the same time. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | 200,000 nodes and 400,000 relationships is a complete citation graph or a mid-sized knowledge graph, and Aura's Cypher is the same query language as the open-source server, so a graph built here moves to a rented container unchanged. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Free instances run on GCP us-central1 only, cannot be paused by the user, and have on-demand backups only. A read-only query does not reset the 72-hour timer, because inactivity is defined as no updates or write queries, so a monitoring ping that only reads will not keep the graph awake. The graphacademy course page states the same limits. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 1 GB
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