Fauna

Discontinued: Serverless Document-Relational Database (Cloud Shut Down May 2025)

United States
Category
DBaaS IaC
Pricing Model
Open Source Discontinued
Pricing Examples
Service discontinued: cloud shut down May 30, 2025 No new sign-ups, no live pricing

Overview

Category
DBaaS IaC
Pricing Model
Open Source Discontinued
Pricing Examples
Service discontinued: cloud shut down May 30, 2025 No new sign-ups, no live pricing

What is Fauna?

Status: Discontinued. Fauna’s managed cloud database has been shut down. The company announced on March 21, 2025 that it was winding the service down, and the hosted service was switched off on May 30, 2025 with all accounts deleted. There is no Fauna cloud to sign up for in 2026. Do not start new projects on it.

Fauna was a serverless document-relational database with ACID transactions and global, multi-region replication. It was founded in 2012 (originally FaunaDB) by Evan Weaver and Matt Freels, former Twitter infrastructure engineers who had built Twitter’s in-house databases. At its peak Fauna served tens of thousands of development teams.

What Happened

In March 2025, Fauna announced it was winding down. Leadership said that running a brand-new global operational database as a service is very capital intensive, and that in the 2025 funding environment its board and investors concluded it was not possible to raise the capital required to keep going independently. The service was turned off on May 30, 2025, and all Fauna accounts were deleted.

Fauna provided a migration window: users could export their data as JSON snapshots to an AWS S3 bucket, with FQL query exports available for smaller collections. Data that was not exported before the cutoff is gone.

Open Source Plans

Fauna pledged to release an open source version of its core database technology and its query language, FQL, alongside the existing drivers and CLI tooling. This is a community-direction effort rather than a hosted product. Even if the code is released, you would run and maintain it on your own infrastructure — there is no managed Fauna cloud behind it.

The Technology (Historical)

Fauna combined the flexibility of JSON documents with relational features: consistency, joins, foreign keys, and full schema enforcement. It was queried with FQL, a TypeScript-inspired query language (earlier versions also offered GraphQL and a Document API). Compute scaled automatically and pricing was based on read, write, and compute operation throughput rather than stored data size.

Alternatives

If you previously used Fauna, the migration path depends on which capability you relied on:

The catch with any migration is FQL — queries written in Fauna’s query language have to be rewritten, since no other database speaks it.

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Features

Category

DBaaS
IaC

Integrations

Apollo
GraphQL
Historical: Vercel
Netlify
Next.js
Prisma

Pricing

Plans

Fauna’s managed cloud database was discontinued. On March 21, 2025 Fauna announced it was winding down the hosted service; the service was switched off on May 30, 2025 and all Fauna accounts were deleted. There is no current pricing because the product is no longer sold. Historically Fauna billed on a usage-based model around read, write, and compute operations (not data size), with a limited free tier and a usage-based paid Pro plan. Those numbers are kept here only as historical reference and should not be treated as live prices.

Free (historical)

$ 0 per month

  • DISCONTINUED — service shut down May 30, 2025
  • Previously: limited monthly read/write/compute operations
  • Single region
  • Community support

Pro (historical)

$ Discontinued per month

  • DISCONTINUED — no longer available
  • Previously: usage-based pricing on read/write/compute ops
  • Multi-region active-active
  • Email support

Enterprise (historical)

$ Discontinued per month

  • DISCONTINUED — no longer available
  • Previously: custom throughput, SLAs, SSO/SAML
Find the full pricing details on the official Fauna

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Last updated: June 18, 2026

*Information is subject to change. Verify with the official Fauna website.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Fauna

No. Fauna shut down its managed cloud database on May 30, 2025. On March 21, 2025 the company announced it was winding the service down, stopped accepting new customers, and then turned the service off and deleted all Fauna accounts. There is no hosted Fauna to sign up for today.

Fauna’s leadership said running a brand-new global operational database as a service is very capital intensive, and that in the 2025 market its board and investors decided it was not possible to raise the capital needed to keep going independently. The technology worked; the business model did not get the funding it needed.

Nothing, because you cannot buy it. The hosted service is gone. Any pricing you find for Fauna’s read/write/compute-operation model is historical. Do not plan a 2026 project around Fauna’s cloud pricing — it no longer exists.

All Fauna accounts were deleted when the service shut down on May 30, 2025. Fauna provided a migration window with a guide for snapshot exports — your data could be exported as JSON files to an AWS S3 bucket, with FQL query exports for smaller collections. If you did not export before the cutoff, that data is gone.

Fauna pledged to release an open source version of its core database technology and its query language, FQL, along with the existing drivers and CLI tooling. Treat this as a community-driven effort rather than a hosted product: even if the code lands, you would be running and maintaining it yourself, with no managed Fauna cloud behind it.

It depends on which part of Fauna you relied on. For a developer-friendly serverless relational database, look at Supabase (Postgres), Neon (serverless Postgres), and PlanetScale (MySQL/Vitess). For the document model closest to Fauna, compare MongoDB. The right choice depends on whether you need documents, global distribution, or just standard SQL.

Yes, and most former Fauna users did exactly that. Fauna’s document-relational model maps reasonably to Postgres (via JSONB) or to a document store like MongoDB. The catch is FQL: queries written in Fauna’s TypeScript-inspired query language have to be rewritten, since no other database speaks FQL.

No. There is no hosted service to build on, accounts are deleted, and the open source effort is not a managed product. For a new serverless database, pick an actively maintained, funded platform like Supabase, Neon, or PlanetScale.