fortrabbit review

fortrabbit's entry plan starts at €1, the smallest paid figure listed for a managed database. Storage is not folded into that price and is billed on its own at €0.50, so the real bill depends on how much data the database keeps.

Yes. fortrabbit offers a free tier, which covers a side project or a test database that has to exist before anyone pays. Paid plans begin at €1 and storage adds €0.50 on top, so a team outgrowing the free tier should model storage before it commits.

fortrabbit hosts a single engine, MySQL, and the platform is built around it. A project that needs a different engine, or a second engine alongside MySQL, has to look at other providers. The engine list is MySQL, so the choice is narrow.

Storage is priced separately at €0.50 rather than being included in the entry plan at €1. Databases that grow quickly move the monthly total a long way from the entry figure, so growth in stored data matters as much as the plan price when providers are compared.

Support runs on email, chat and help centre, which pairs a help centre with direct email and chat. No phone number appears in the list, so anyone who prefers voice contact should weigh that before signing up. The mix suits developers who are comfortable starting in writing.

fortrabbit is run by fortrabbit GmbH, based in Germany, and has traded since 2012. The contract is with that company, so readers billing in another currency should read the terms first. A long trading record is useful context for a managed service that holds your data.

The entry plan sits at €1 against a €4.38 for the database group here, so fortrabbit starts below the middle of the field. For readers priced in dollars, the entry figures of RisingWave at $0.23, UCloud at $0.96 and Vultr at $2.50 are worth weighing in the same currency.