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Free to connect, query & monitor.
Platform to provision, protect & govern.
DBHelm is free, forever, to connect, query, monitor, advise and optimize your existing databases — whether direct-connected or in a registered Kubernetes environment. DBHelm Platform adds the operate layer: provisioning, backups & PITR, maintenance, automation, federation, migration and governance. Unlock it with an offline license key.
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DBHelm (Free)
Connect, query, monitor, advise & optimize your existing databases. Free, forever.
$0 / forever
- Unlimited Direct Connections + registered Kubernetes environments
- 56 discovery engines — read & monitor every DB-Engines top-10
- Real-time monitoring with embedded Topology view + on-demand health checks
- Console with deep adapters + safe-by-default queries (read-only default; destructive-op classifier)
- Optimize suite: Query Optimizer + Code Optimizer (AI rewrites) + Index Janitor + Schema Doctor + Autovacuum Pressure Map + Pool Fit + Cost dashboard
- Advisor + Right-Sizing + Upgrade Advisor recommendations
- Incident diagnosis + Transaction Tracer
- AI assistant — bring your own OpenAI / Anthropic / Ollama key (SSRF allowlists)
- RBAC + multi-org; AES-256-GCM encrypted credentials; offline-first; 0 known dependency CVEs
- macOS, Windows + Linux native builds
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No credit card, no signup, no telemetry. Source-available under BSL 1.1.
DBHelm Platform
The operate layer — provision, protect, automate & govern your fleet.
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- Everything in Free, plus:
- Provisioning — 17 provisioners + 10-entry Operator Hub (one-click clusters on Kubernetes & cloud)
- Backups & PITR — on-demand + scheduled, one-click pre-flight-validated restore
- Maintenance — rolling restarts, disk / oplog resize, node-pool operations
- Automation — alerts, schedulers, Plan Watch (re-EXPLAIN every 30 min), declarative GitOps state + replay
- Cross-engine federation (DuckDB) — JOIN across Postgres + MySQL without ETL
- Engine migration — MySQL → Postgres in three clicks
- Governance — audit-log export, compliance posture, DR testing, incident playbooks, capacity forecasting
- Offline Ed25519 license key — activate in Settings → License (air-gapped friendly, no phone-home)
Actively expanding. Everything above is live today. DBHelm Platform is in active development — we're building toward a complete operate layer, with new capabilities shipping in every release.
Start a free trial
Request a trial key, activate it in Settings → License. Volume / multi-seat pricing — email hello@dbhelm.com.
Common questions
What's free vs. paid?
Free (DBHelm): connect, query, monitor, advise and optimize your existing databases — Direct Connections and registered Kubernetes environments, real-time monitoring, the Console, the Optimize suite, Advisor / Right-Sizing / Upgrade Advisor, diagnosis, and the BYO-AI assistant. No environment cap, no database cap. Paid (DBHelm Platform): the operate layer — provisioning, backups & PITR, maintenance, automation (alerts / schedulers / Plan Watch / GitOps), cross-engine federation, engine migration, and governance (audit export / compliance / DR testing / playbooks / capacity).
Is monitoring really free for clusters in my Kubernetes environments?
Yes. Registering a Kubernetes environment is free — it's the on-ramp to monitoring databases you already run. Query, monitoring and advisor are free for both registered environments and direct connections. Provisioning new clusters into them is the Platform feature.
How is the Platform license enforced?
With an offline, Ed25519-signed license key you paste into Settings → License. It's verified entirely on your machine against an embedded public key — no phone-home, works air-gapped. Default zero telemetry.
Is there a trial?
Yes — email hello@dbhelm.com for a time-limited Platform trial key and activate it in Settings → License. When it expires the app gracefully falls back to the free tier; your data and connections are untouched.
Is DBHelm still source-available?
Yes, under BSL 1.1 (auto-converts to Apache 2.0 four years after each release). Platform features require a license key. The BSL hosting clause still applies: you can't re-sell DBHelm itself as a managed service.
Do you offer educational / non-profit pricing?
Email hello@dbhelm.com from a school or registered non-profit address — we're happy to sort out Platform access for academic and non-profit use.
Still have questions?
hello@dbhelm.com