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NebulaGraph alternatives
4 tools to consider instead of NebulaGraph, shown against it.
| NebulaGraph | JanusGraph | Dgraph | TigerGraph | ArangoDB | |||||||||||||
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| Vendor | vesoft inc. | JanusGraph (Linux Foundation project) | Hypermode (an Istari Digital company) | TigerGraph, Inc. | ArangoDB Inc. (operating as Arango) | ||||||||||||
| Pricing model | Free tier + paid plans | Open source + paid options | Open source + paid options | Usage-based | Quote only | ||||||||||||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud, Self-hosted | Self-hosted | Self-hosted | Cloud, Self-hosted | Cloud, Self-hosted | ||||||||||||
| Open source | Yes (Apache-2.0) | Yes (Apache-2.0) | Yes (Apache-2.0) | No | No (BSL-1.1) | ||||||||||||
| Best for | Teams operating very large, high-throughput graphs (social, recommendation, risk) who want an open-source, horizontally scaled store. | Teams running large distributed graphs on infrastructure they already operate, such as Cassandra or HBase clusters. | Teams building a GraphQL-first application that want the graph store and API layer combined. | Enterprises needing deep multi-hop graph analytics at scale, such as fraud rings or complex supply-chain networks. | Teams that want graph traversals and document queries against the same dataset without running two databases. | ||||||||||||
| Pricing | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | ||||||||||||
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