SurrealDB
A multi-model database that combines documents, graphs, vectors, and time-series data in a single ACID transaction.
| What is it | A multi-model database that combines documents, graphs, vectors, and time-series data in a single ACID transaction. |
|---|---|
| Pricing | Freemium |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Platform | Web Application |
| API | Yes |
| Works with | n8n |
| Best for | Providing unified context and memory for AI agent applications, Replacing a stack of separate databases (Postgres, Neo4j, Pinecone) with one system |
| Domain registered | 2016 |
Data updated Aug. 1, 2026
What does SurrealDB do?
SurrealDB is a database platform designed to be the unified context layer for AI agents and applications. Instead of forcing developers to connect and manage separate systems for different data types—like a vector database for embeddings, a graph database for relationships, and a document store—SurrealDB handles documents, graphs, vectors, and time-series data within one engine. This means you can run a single query that performs a graph traversal, a vector similarity search, and filters temporal data all at once, returning a unified result set.
The platform stands out by wrapping all these operations in a single ACID transaction, ensuring that writes across different data models either all succeed or all fail together, preventing inconsistent states. It uses its own query language, SurrealQL, to compose these complex operations. The architecture is vertically integrated, with layers for distributed storage (compatible with S3, GCS, or Azure Blob), the core SurrealDB context engine, and a top-level memory layer called Spectron for AI agents.
This tool is a major benefit for developers and engineering teams building complex, data-intensive applications, particularly AI agents that need to reason over diverse types of contextual information. It simplifies backend architecture significantly by reducing the number of systems to deploy, secure, and monitor. Use cases include building AI assistants that require persistent memory, applications needing complex data relationships, and any project where low-latency access to multi-model data is critical.
Key features
What makes it stand outWho is SurrealDB for?
Who benefits most from this toolPricing
Free tier available — start without a credit cardStart
- 0.021 hourly rate
- 1GB storage free, forever
- Scale vertically to terabytes
- Automatic burst scaling
- Daily automated backups
- Cloud RBAC and ABAC
- Database branching and forking
- Multi-model queries
Dedicated
- Scale horizontally to petabytes
- Highly-available and fault-tolerant
- Multiple availability-zone deployment
- Multi-region disaster recovery
- Object-storage backed data
- Up to 256GB memory per node
- Database branching and forking
Enterprise
- Highly available, fault tolerant
- Horizontal scalability
- Audit logging and compliance
- SSO & advanced access controls
- Gen-3 distributed storage engine
- Database branching and forking
- SLA-backed uptime guarantees
- FIPS-compliant cryptography
- Object file storage backends
- Distributed live queries
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