Appwrite Has a Free Open-Source Backend Platform — Auth Database Storage and Functions in One

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Appwrite Gives You a Complete Backend in One Platform

Firebase locks you into Google. Supabase is PostgreSQL-focused. Appwrite is a fully open-source BaaS you can self-host with everything built in.

What Appwrite Includes

Authentication — email, OAuth, phone, magic links, anonymous
Database — document-based with permissions and relations
Storage — file uploads with image transformations
Functions — serverless in Node, Python, Dart, PHP, Ruby, etc.
Messaging — push notifications, email, SMS
Realtime — subscribe to database changes

Quick Start

# Self-host with Docker
docker run -it --rm \
  --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  --volume "$(pwd)"/appwrite:/usr/src/code/appwrite:rw \
  --entrypoint="install" \
  appwrite/appwrite:1.5

SDK Example

import { Client, Account, Databases } from 'appwrite'

const client = new Client()
  .setEndpoint('https://cloud.appwrite.io/v1')
  .setProject('your-project-id')

const account = new Account(client)
await account.createEmailPasswordSession('user@email.com', 'password')

const db = new Databases(client)
const docs = await db.listDocuments('db-id', 'collection-id')

Free Tier (Cloud)

Resource	Free
Bandwidth	10GB
Storage	2GB
Functions	750K executions
Users	75K MAU
Databases	1

Self-hosted: completely free, no limits.

Why Appwrite Over Firebase

Open source — self-host, no vendor lock-in
Multi-runtime functions — not just JavaScript
Privacy — your data on your servers
REST + GraphQL — not proprietary SDK-only
Active community — 40K+ GitHub stars

📧 spinov001@gmail.com — Backend architecture consulting

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