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JanusGraph alternatives
4 tools to consider instead of JanusGraph, shown against it.
| JanusGraph | Amazon Neptune | NebulaGraph | TigerGraph | Dgraph | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vendor | JanusGraph (Linux Foundation project) | Amazon Web Services | vesoft inc. | TigerGraph, Inc. | Hypermode (an Istari Digital company) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing model | Open source + paid options | Usage-based | Free tier + paid plans | Usage-based | Open source + paid options | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Free tier | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Cloud | Cloud, Self-hosted | Cloud, Self-hosted | Self-hosted | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Open source | Yes (Apache-2.0) | No | Yes (Apache-2.0) | No | Yes (Apache-2.0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Best for | Teams running large distributed graphs on infrastructure they already operate, such as Cassandra or HBase clusters. | AWS-centric teams who want a managed graph database without operating clusters, with flexibility to pick property-graph or RDF. | Teams operating very large, high-throughput graphs (social, recommendation, risk) who want an open-source, horizontally scaled store. | Enterprises needing deep multi-hop graph analytics at scale, such as fraud rings or complex supply-chain networks. | Teams building a GraphQL-first application that want the graph store and API layer combined. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing | Free open-source software; costs come from the storage and indexing backends you choose to run it on. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Billed per instance-hour plus storage and I/O for provisioned clusters, or per Neptune Capacity Unit for Serverless.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Open-Source Edition is free; Enterprise and NebulaGraph Cloud pricing require contacting sales, with a 14-day cloud trial.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Savanna cloud is billed per GB of graph data per month plus elastic storage; self-managed Community edition is free, Enterprise is quoted.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Core database is free and open source; enterprise features and managed offerings are arranged directly with Hypermode. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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