Nhost
by NHost · Managed Postgres, GraphQL, auth, storage and functions backend
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Overview
Nhost is a managed backend platform providing a Postgres database, a Hasura GraphQL API with realtime subscriptions and event triggers, authentication, file storage with a CDN, and serverless JS/TS functions. A CLI runs the whole stack locally and Git pushes deploy it to Nhost Cloud. Projects can also run your own containers and use an AI toolkit with pgvector and auto-embeddings.
- Best for
- Small teams wanting a managed Postgres and GraphQL backend without running their own infrastructure
- Pricing
- Free Starter tier, then Pro from $25/month and Team from $599/month per organisation, with compute billed separately at $15–$50 per vCPU core/month and Enterprise on request.
- Runs on
- Web
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Postgres, GraphQL, auth, storage and functions in one stack
- CLI runs the full stack locally; Git push deploys it
- Free tier needs no credit card and allows unlimited users
- Full database and storage export, stated as no vendor lock-in
Trade-offs
- Free tier allows one active project, paused after a week of inactivity
- Compute is billed per vCPU core on top of the monthly plan fee
- Excess usage is charged automatically rather than capped
- SOC 2 Type II, support SLA and 99.9% SLA only from $599/month
How Nhost markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Nhost’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Launch in minutes Scale without limits”
- Angle: Speed / time-to-value
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Nhost’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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The Nhost pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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