Appwrite
appwrite.ioBuild Difficulty: 4/5
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How to Replace AppwriteOverview
Features
51 features across 18 categories
AI(1)
AI Builder on Appwrite Cloud for enhanced development
Auth(3)
Authenticate users securely with multiple login methods including Email/Password, SMS, OAuth, Anonymous, and Magic URLs
One-time password authentication via phone
Enterprise-grade SSO for centralized authentication management
Backup(2)
Define custom backup and retention policies for your data
Daily backups stored for 7 days for Pro plan, with customizable retention for Enterprise
Billing(1)
Set spending limits and receive alerts when reaching thresholds
Compliance(4)
Protect sensitive user health data
Safeguard user data and privacy with provided GDPR regulations
Protect sensitive user health data
Ensure the highest level of security and privacy protection
Compute(1)
Deploy and scale serverless functions in 30+ secure, isolated runtimes in 13 languages
Data Management(1)
Easily transfer data from 3rd parties or between Cloud and self-hosted
Database(2)
Perform bulk operations on documents through API
Scalable and robust databases backed by your favorite technologies with support for Products, Categories, and custom data structures
Hosting(2)
Fast build deployments for Sites
Host and maintain your website domains and frontend code, integrated with all Appwrite products
Infrastructure(6)
Option to host on your own cloud infrastructure for Enterprise
Automatic content compression for faster delivery
CDN for fast content delivery globally
Deploy compute resources at edge locations
Points of presence ensure less than 50ms ping around the globe with multiple cloud regions and edges
Deploy Appwrite on your own servers with no limits using open-source version
Integration(1)
Send webhook notifications for application events
Messaging(8)
Use your own SMTP server for email sending
Send notifications to Discord channels
Send email notifications to users
Set up a full-functioning messaging service that covers multiple channels under one unified platform
Send push notifications across multiple platforms
Send notifications to Slack channels
Send SMS messages to users
Send notifications via WhatsApp
Observability(2)
Enhanced monitoring and observability features for Enterprise
Export logs to external services for advanced monitoring
Realtime(1)
Subscribe and react to any Appwrite event using the Realtime API
Security(7)
Protect your APIs from abuse with built-in protection
Track and audit all activities within your organization
Built-in data encryption both in rest and in transit
Automatically detect and mitigate Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks
Encrypt specific attributes in your database documents
TLS encryption for secure data transmission
Web Application Firewall with custom rules for Enterprise
Storage(3)
Transform and optimize images with advanced features
Capture and store screenshots with per-month limits
Securely store files with advanced compression, encryption and image transformations
Support(4)
Round-the-clock support available for Enterprise tier
Dedicated account manager for Enterprise customers
Email support for Pro tier customers
Service level agreements for Enterprise customers
Team Management(2)
Define custom roles for fine-grained access control
Manage team permissions and access controls across projects
Pricing
Free
- ✓5GB bandwidth
- ✓2GB storage
- ✓750K executions
- ✓75K monthly active users
- ✓Community support
- ✓1 Database, 1 Bucket, 2 Functions per project
- ✓Limit of 2 projects
- ✓500K monthly reads
- ✓250K monthly writes
- ✓1 Bucket per project
- ✓50MB file size limit
- ✓100 GB-hour per month
- ✓250 concurrent connections
- ✓3M messages
- ✓1000 messages per month
- ✓1 Topic
- ✓In-app notifications, Chat, Push notifications
- ✓50 screenshots per month
- ✓Edge compute, DDoS mitigation, CDN, Content compression, TLS encryption
Pro
Popular- ✓2TB bandwidth
- ✓150GB storage
- ✓3.5M executions
- ✓200K monthly active users
- ✓Organization roles
- ✓Email support
- ✓Daily backups stored for 7 days
- ✓Unlimited Databases, Buckets, and Functions
- ✓Dedicated resources per project
- ✓1750K monthly reads
- ✓750K monthly writes
- ✓Unlimited Buckets
- ✓5GB file size limit
- ✓100 origin images per month for transformations
- ✓1000 GB-hour per month
- ✓500 concurrent connections
- ✓Unlimited messages
- ✓Unlimited messages per month
- ✓Unlimited Topics
- ✓All notification targets
- ✓Unlimited connected websites and apps
- ✓Unlimited Sites
- ✓Unlimited documents
- ✓1000 bulk API documents
- ✓5000 screenshots per month
- ✓Unlimited webhooks per project
- ✓7 day logs retention
Enterprise
- ✓Everything in Pro, plus:
- ✓Custom bandwidth
- ✓Custom storage
- ✓Custom executions
- ✓Custom monthly active users
- ✓Uptime SLAs
- ✓Designated Success Manager
- ✓Up to 24/7 support
- ✓Option for private Slack channel
- ✓Volume discounts
- ✓Log drains
- ✓90-day log retention
- ✓Advanced observability
- ✓Bring your own Cloud
- ✓SOC-2, HIPAA, and BAA
- ✓Custom organization roles
- ✓Single Sign-On (SSO)
- ✓Activity logs
- ✓Custom backup policies
- ✓Custom projects
- ✓Custom database limits
- ✓Custom read/write limits
- ✓Custom execution logs
- ✓Custom file size limits
- ✓Custom transformations
- ✓Custom concurrent connections
- ✓Custom WAF rules
- ✓Custom screenshots
- ✓Custom SMTP
- ✓Firewall with custom rules
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Total Cost Comparison
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Integrations
4 known integrations