Shut down★4.4ratingPricing · Freemium from $20/moDeclining
What happened to Xata?
Xata shut down in 2026.
Xata's original serverless database with built-in search and AI was renamed Xata Lite in May 2025 and permanently retired on 28 Feb 2026. The company now offers a separate branch-native Postgres platform under the Xata name.
Xata combines a relational database, full-text search, and vector search in one serverless platform. AI features include built-in vector embeddings for semantic search and an AI ask endpoint. Branch your database like you branch your code.
How Xata compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Xata did. Among the 4 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Neon at $19 a month and the median is $27. Xata started at $20 a month, below that median. All 5 offer an API, as Xata did. Xata offered a web app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app. Xata was founded in 2021; the alternatives were founded between 2018 and 2022, 2 of them earlier. Xata has no single headquarters on record, and 1 of its alternatives is also distributed.
Market position · Coding
How Xata compares in Coding
Xata had low opportunity before it shut down. Across Coding, the average opportunity score is 60.4 and the average saturation score 44.4. FalcoScan rates Xata's own market position as contested. 154 of the 499 operating Coding tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 16 shutdowns in the category.
No. Xata shut down in 2026, according to lite.xata.io. Xata's original serverless database with built-in search and AI was renamed Xata Lite in May 2025 and permanently retired on 28 Feb 2026. The company now offers a separate branch-native Postgres platform under the Xata name.
The closest alternatives to Xata that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Neon, PlanetScale, Supabase, Upstash, and Turso.
Where was Xata based?
Xata had no single headquarters: FalcoScan's records list it as a distributed, remote-first company.