Memgraph alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of Memgraph, shown against it.

Memgraph Neo4j ArangoDB Dgraph NebulaGraph
Vendor Memgraph Ltd. Neo4j, Inc. ArangoDB Inc. (operating as Arango) Hypermode (an Istari Digital company) vesoft inc.
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans Quote only Open source + paid options Free tier + paid plans
Free tier Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No (BSL-1.1) No No (BSL-1.1) Yes (Apache-2.0) Yes (Apache-2.0)
Best for Teams needing sub-second graph queries or GraphRAG/agent memory who want a Cypher-compatible engine without Neo4j's footprint. Teams doing fraud detection, recommendations or knowledge graphs who want the most mature Cypher/graph tooling ecosystem. Teams that want graph traversals and document queries against the same dataset without running two databases. Teams building a GraphQL-first application that want the graph store and API layer combined. Teams operating very large, high-throughput graphs (social, recommendation, risk) who want an open-source, horizontally scaled store.
Pricing

Community edition is free and source-available; Enterprise is priced on memory used by graph data, quoted per customer.

Community Free

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

AuraDB is billed per GB/month above a free tier; self-managed Community edition is free, Enterprise requires a quote.

AuraDB Free $0
AuraDB Professional from $65/GB/month
AuraDB Business Critical from $146/GB/month
AuraDB Virtual Dedicated Cloud custom quote

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Community edition is free for non-production use; ArangoGraph cloud and Enterprise self-managed require contacting sales for a quote.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

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.

Open-Source Edition is free; Enterprise and NebulaGraph Cloud pricing require contacting sales, with a 14-day cloud trial.

Open-source Edition Free
NebulaGraph Cloud custom / pay-as-you-go

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • openCypher query language (Neo4j-compatible)
  • In-memory storage engine for low-latency queries
  • Built-in and MAGE library graph algorithms
  • Dynamic/streaming algorithm updates
  • Native vector indexing alongside graph data
  • Memgraph Cloud managed instances
  • Kafka and Pulsar streaming ingestion
  • Cypher query language (basis of ISO GQL)
  • Native graph storage and index-free adjacency
  • Graph Data Science library of algorithms
  • Vector and full-text search alongside graph queries
  • Causal clustering for high availability
  • Bloom for no-code graph visualization
  • Bulk import and ETL tooling
  • Role-based access control
  • AQL: one query language across graph, document and key/value data
  • SmartGraphs for horizontally sharded graph workloads
  • Native full-text and vector search
  • AutoGraph automatic knowledge-graph construction
  • GraphRAG-style retrieval for AI applications
  • ArangoGraph managed cloud (multi-cloud)
  • ACID transactions across collections
  • DQL query language (GraphQL-derived)
  • Native GraphQL API over graph data
  • Natively distributed, sharded storage with no external coordinator
  • ACID transactions
  • Namespaces for multi-tenant graphs
  • Full-text and geo search
  • nGQL graph query language
  • Storage-compute separation for independent scaling
  • Distributed architecture for billion-edge graphs
  • Combined OLTP and OLAP-style graph queries
  • Built-in graph algorithms library
  • Kubernetes-native deployment (NebulaGraph Operator)

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