Nhost

Nhost — Postgres plus Hasura GraphQL, auth, storage and serverless functions. Nhost is the GraphQL-shaped take on the Supabase idea: managed Postgres with Hasura in front of it, plus an auth service, S3-compatible storage and Node functions. Realtime is Hasura subscriptions, which are an efficient server-side diff pushed to clients. Everything underneath is standard — Postgres, Hasura metadata, SQL migrations — which makes it one of the easier platforms here to walk away from. Founded 2020. Venture-backed. Open source.

We track it in 1 comparison — Convex alternatives — so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 10 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it wins.

• Full-text search — Yes, which only 4 of 11 tools here manage.
• Exit cost — 2, 2nd of 11.

Each of those is ranked against the whole roster on its category page, not against a hand-picked subset, so a first place here means first of everything we list.

Where it gives ground.

• Entry price — $25 /mo, 6th of 9. Firebase records $0 /mo.
• GitHub stars — 8,000, 6th of 10. Supabase records 90,000.
• Optimistic writes — No. Convex records Yes.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

Provenance. 24 of 26 tracked fields carry a value for Nhost, and 7 of those cite a document you can open. Last verified 2026-07-20. Every figure keeps its own provenance — measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported — and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is Appwrite. Nhost is ahead on Transactions (mvcc against none) and Raw SQL (Yes against No). Appwrite takes GitHub stars (52,000 against 8,000) and Entry price ($15 /mo against $25 /mo). That pattern repeats across the rest of the roster — see Nhost alternatives for the other rivals, each compared the same way.

Founded

2020

Funding

Venture-backed

Licence

Open source

Fields we track

24 of 26

Last verified

2026-07-20

An underrated exit: Postgres plus open-source Hasura means both halves of the stack survive leaving. It is also the quietest project here, which you should weigh against how much you like GraphQL.

Full-text search

●Yes1st of 11

Inferred

Exit cost

22nd of 11

Inferred

Entry price

$25 /mo6th of 9

Inferredsource

GitHub stars

8,0006th of 10

Inferred

Reactivity

push1st of 11

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-07-20source

Self-hostable

●Yes1st of 11

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-07-20source

Transactions

mvcc1st of 11

Inferred

Local-first sync

○No6th of 11

Inferred

Nhost is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• Teams already committed to GraphQL and Hasura.
• Projects wanting managed convenience with a fully open stack underneath.
• Anyone who wants Supabase's portability but prefers subscriptions to change feeds.
• Full-text search is your binding constraint. Nhost records Yes, which only 4 of the 11 tools in the Convex alternatives roster do. We define that field as first-party text indexing with relevance ranking.
• Exit cost is your binding constraint. Nhost records 2, 2nd of 11 in the Convex alternatives roster. We define that field as 1–5 judgement score, lower is better, for how much application code must be rewritten to move off the platform, assuming the data is already extracted.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• Entry price. Nhost records $25 /mo, 6th of 9 in the Convex alternatives roster. Firebase records $0 /mo on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• GitHub stars. Nhost records 8,000, 6th of 10 in the Convex alternatives roster. Supabase records 90,000 on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Optimistic writes. Nhost records No on the Convex alternatives table. Convex records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 2 of the 26 fields we track for Nhost are still blank: Cold start and Function timeout. Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.