What's in each tier
Three tiers. No artificial blockers — Free is genuinely usable for the SQL family. Pro and Pro Plus exist because the engines / safety / collaboration features cost real time to build and maintain.
Free — $0
Section titled “Free — $0”The complete editor + 20 SQL dialects.
- Editor: multi-tab SQL editor with autocomplete, history, snippets. Schema browser, saved queries (local).
- Engines: PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, DuckDB, ClickHouse, Cassandra/ScyllaDB — plus 13 wire-compat presets (Cockroach, Yugabyte, Neon, Supabase, Timescale, Redshift, Aurora-PG, Greenplum, Citus, TiDB, PlanetScale, Aurora-MySQL, Vitess).
- Backups: plain SQL dump + restore.
- ER diagram: PNG export.
- SSH tunneling: key / password / agent, TOFU host-keys, 30s keepalives.
- Devices: unlimited, no enforcement.
Pro — $15/mo · $150/yr
Section titled “Pro — $15/mo · $150/yr”Everything in Free, plus:
- 15 NoSQL · cloud · vector engines — MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra/Scylla, Memcached, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Neo4j, DynamoDB, Firestore, Qdrant, Weaviate, Pinecone.
- Safety differentiators:
- Edit-as-draft buffer + prod-tag confirmations
- FK-aware backup with cycle detection
- Restore preview (DROP / TRUNCATE flagged red)
- Streaming import with progress bar (multi-GB dumps stay under 1 MB resident)
- EXPLAIN with plain-language interpretation (no AI — deterministic rules)
- Schema diff between connections
- SSH live health monitoring + auto-reconnect
- Encrypted backups (.qenc — AES-256-GCM + Argon2id)
- Per-engine deep tools: BigQuery dry-run cost · Snowflake suspend/ resume · Mongo aggregation runner · vector similarity search · PG LISTEN/NOTIFY · Mongo change streams · Redis pub/sub · ER diagram SVG.
- Devices: 2 active.
Pro Plus — $30/mo · $300/yr
Section titled “Pro Plus — $30/mo · $300/yr”Everything in Pro, plus collaboration + automation:
- Team sync — shared encrypted connections + saved queries (E2E AES-256-GCM)
- Cloud backup destinations — direct upload to S3 / R2 / GCS
- Scheduled backups — cron in-process; for 24/7 install the Quay CLI as a launchd / systemd unit
- AI assistant — BYO key, off by default, every AI feature has a non-AI fallback
- Native migration runner — versioned up/down SQL files, tracking table, generate from schema diff. Zero external CLI required.
- Stored-procedure trace — PG / MySQL / MSSQL — auto-instruments per-line breadcrumbs, no engine extension
- Devices: 5 active.
- Add-ons: extra device seats available.
Yearly = pay for 10 months, get 12
Section titled “Yearly = pay for 10 months, get 12”| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Effective |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $15 | $150 | $12.50/mo (16.7% off) |
| Pro Plus | $30 | $300 | $25/mo (16.7% off) |
Buying + managing
Section titled “Buying + managing”Sign in at account.quay.uncle-z.com, choose a plan, complete checkout via Polar.sh (the merchant of record — handles global VAT + chargebacks). Your licence key is issued automatically and emailed.
See Account portal and Billing for managing devices, viewing invoices, and switching tiers.
Refunds + cancellation
Section titled “Refunds + cancellation”Cancel anytime — features stay until the end of the billing period. Refunds within 14 days, no questions asked. Email quay@uncle-z.com.