Price checked Oct 31, 2026

New launch review · Backend platform

Backenly Review (2026)

Backenly review: an open-source backend (Postgres, auth, storage, functions, realtime) that your coding agent builds through MCP. After launch, a self-healing loop checks it every minute, fixes safe problems like missing indexes on its own, and holds risky changes for your approval.

Free: $0, 1 project, no card
Pro: $25/mo or $240/yr
Launch code: PRODUCTHUNT50: Pro $12.50/mo for 3 months, to Nov 7
Launched: Product Hunt, Oct 29, 2026

Last updated: October 31, 2026. First reviewed October 31, 2026. Official-site review of a new launch. We have not tested Backenly hands-on. Prices come from backenly.com/pricing.

This is the price at the moment we wrote this review (October 31, 2026). The price may have changed by the time you read it, so check the official site for today’s price.

New launch, not tested hands-on. Backenly (“The autonomous backend for AI coding agents”) was in the Product Hunt feed on October 29, 2026 (5:07 PM ET). Everything below comes from backenly.com, its pricing and startup pages, and the makers’ Product Hunt post. We have not connected an agent to it.

No affiliate program found. We found no affiliate or partner program for Backenly (backenly.com/affiliate, /affiliates and /partners return 404, checked October 31, 2026). We earn nothing from links on this page.

Summary

Quick verdict: a Supabase-style backend built for the way people now code: the agent creates tables, sign-in, storage and functions through MCP, and Backenly keeps watching it after launch. Safe, additive fixes ship on their own with an undo; anything destructive or auth-related waits for a human, and the agent can’t approve it. Free is a real permanent project; Pro is $25 a month ($240 a year). It’s open source and self-hostable, but brand new.

Your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Cline, Copilot, Zed or any MCP host) builds Postgres tables, row-level security, auth, storage, functions and realtime.
A self-healing loop checks the backend every minute, fixes what it can verify and undo, and re-checks each fix.
Destructive changes (like dropping a table) always wait for you; your coding agent can’t approve them.
When a table starts doing two jobs, Backenly can rehearse splitting it on a copy and move the data once you approve.
Price: Free $0 (1 project); Pro $25 a month or $240 a year; Enterprise custom. Launch code PRODUCTHUNT50 halves monthly Pro for 3 months until Nov 7.
Open source under Apache-2.0; self-hosting is free.

Watch: Backenly in 60 seconds

Made by SaaS Finder Hub from Backenly’s public website screenshots. Voiceover is AI-generated. Prices in the video are as of Nov 1, 2026 and may have changed; check the official site for today’s price.

Pricing

Source: backenly.com/pricing, checked October 31, 2026. Prices in US dollars. The page has Monthly and Yearly (“Save 20%”) views; the comparison table lists Pro at $25 a month or $240 a year.

Plan	Price	Projects and seats	Included	Notes
Free	$0 forever	1 live project, 2 seats	50,000 MAU, 512 MB Postgres, 1 GB storage, 5 GB egress, 10,000 function runs, 200 AI credits, 25 realtime connections	Hard caps, never billed. No event triggers, outbound webhooks or custom domains. 7-day logs. No card
Pro	$25 a month, or $240 a year	Unlimited projects, 5 seats	100,000 MAU, 8 GB Postgres, 100 GB storage, 250 GB egress, 2M function runs, 3,000 AI credits, 1,000 realtime connections	Triggers, webhooks, custom domains; 30-day restore points and logs; email support
Enterprise	Custom (annual, invoiced)	Custom	Custom limits and AI credit pool	OIDC single sign-on, custom guardrail policies, 90-day logs, 12-hour SLA support

On a phone, swipe the table sideways to see every column.

Price snapshot: This is the price at the moment we wrote this review (October 31, 2026). The price may have changed by the time you read it, so check the official site for today’s price.

Past Pro’s quotas nothing is billed unless you set a prepaid spend limit ($50, $100, $250 or your own). Then: $0.003 per extra MAU, $0.125 per GB-month of database, $0.0213 per GB-month of storage, $0.09 per GB egress, $2 per 1M function runs.
One AI credit is 1,000 tokens of Backenly’s own model use. Building through the typed MCP tools and self-healing never use credits.
Launch offer: code PRODUCTHUNT50 gives monthly Pro at $12.50 for the first 3 months, ending Nov 7, 2026, 11:59 PM PT.
Startups (bootstrapped to Series A) can apply for 3 months of Pro free.

What a year of Backenly Pro costs (our math)

Option	First year	Notes
Pro yearly	$240	Same as $20 a month
Pro monthly	$300	12 × $25
Pro monthly with PRODUCTHUNT50	$262.50	3 × $12.50 + 9 × $25; code ends Nov 7

Our arithmetic from the official prices on October 31, 2026, before tax and any usage past the included quotas.

See Backenly official pricing

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Price history

Checked	Free	Pro	Enterprise
Oct 31, 2026	$0 (1 project)	$25/mo or $240/yr	Custom

We re-check this page every month and add a row.

Features

From backenly.com and backenly.com/pricing, October 31, 2026. Described, not tested.

Postgres, a schema per project: tables, relations, indexes, pgvector, direct connection strings and pg_dump exports.
Auth: email and password, OAuth, magic links and verification emails, with a signing secret per project.
REST API: PostgREST serves every table with filters, ordering, pagination and OpenAPI.
Realtime, storage and functions: inserts and updates over SSE, presence and broadcast; S3-compatible buckets and signed URLs; functions on insert, signup, cron or webhook.
Self-healing every minute: e.g. adds a missing index on its own, then re-runs the check; each fix keeps an Undo.
Autonomy modes: choose what Backenly may change alone; auth, destructive and irreversible changes always need approval.
Branches: clone the backend, let the agent experiment, review the diff and merge.
CLI and agent skill: npx @backenly/cli for schema, generated types, CI diffs and logs. Cloud regions: Mumbai, Frankfurt, US East, US West, Singapore.

Who it’s for

Solo builders and small teams who build apps with Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and want a real backend, not a mock.
Agencies shipping many small client apps (Pro has unlimited projects).
Teams who want an exit: standard Postgres, pg_dump and Apache-2.0 self-hosting.
Not for you if you don’t want anything changing your production database without a human typing the command.

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The catch

Brand new, and it changes your production backend on its own.

A just-launched product from a small team; production trust is the whole question.
In Autopilot, “safe” fixes (like new indexes) ship without waiting for you; they are snapshotted and undoable, but you need to check the log.
Free is 1 project, 2 seats, 25 realtime connections and no webhooks, triggers or custom domains.
Overage pricing applies only through a prepaid spend limit; without one, quotas are hard caps and your app can hit a wall.
Cloud runs in 5 regions; other locations mean self-hosting.

Verdict

Start free: one permanent project is enough to see whether your agent builds a sane schema.
Take Pro yearly ($240) once you ship a real product, or use PRODUCTHUNT50 by Nov 7 if you’d rather pay monthly.
Set autonomy carefully and read the change history in the first weeks.

This is the price at the moment we wrote this review (October 31, 2026). The price may have changed by the time you read it, so check the official site for today’s price.

Worth trying if: your coding agent writes most of your app and you want a Postgres backend that it can build and that keeps an audit trail and undo.

Skip it if: you already run Supabase or Firebase happily, or company policy bans automated schema changes in production.

Not tested hands-on. Prices can change; re-check backenly.com/pricing before you buy.

Backenly FAQ

How much does Backenly cost?

As of October 31, 2026, Backenly Cloud is free for 1 project with no card. Pro costs $25 a month or $240 a year, and Enterprise is custom. Until Nov 7, 2026, code PRODUCTHUNT50 makes monthly Pro $12.50 for 3 months. Self-hosting the Apache-2.0 version is free.

What is the main downside of Backenly?

It is brand new, and its self-healing loop can make additive changes to your production database by itself. Every change is snapshotted and undoable, but you have to trust a young product with production data.

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