Nile Has a Free API — Postgres Built for Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications

What if your database understood tenants natively — isolated data, per-tenant metrics, and unlimited virtual databases, all on vanilla Postgres?

Nile gives you exactly that. A serverless Postgres platform purpose-built for multi-tenant SaaS apps.

Why Developers Love Nile

Traditional Postgres forces you to hack multi-tenancy with tenant_id columns, custom RLS policies, and fragile middleware. Nile makes tenants a first-class concept:

• Virtual tenant databases — each tenant gets isolated storage on shared infrastructure
• Built-in tenant-aware queries — SET nile.tenant_id = 'xxx' and all queries are automatically scoped
• Per-tenant metrics — track storage, connections, and query volume per customer
• Standard Postgres — works with any Postgres client, ORM, or migration tool

Quick Start

# Install the Nile CLI
npm install -g @theniledev/cli

# Connect to your Nile database
psql "postgres://user:[e-mail]:5432/mydb"

Create a tenant and start querying:

-- Create a new tenant
INSERT INTO tenants (name) VALUES ('Acme Corp');

-- Set tenant context for all subsequent queries
SET nile.tenant_id = '<tenant-uuid>';

-- This query only returns data for Acme Corp
SELECT * FROM orders;

The Free Tier

Nile's free tier includes:

• 1 database with unlimited tenants
• 1 GB storage
• Shared compute
• Built-in user authentication per tenant
• Dashboard with tenant-level analytics

No credit card required. Just sign up and start building.

Real Use Case

A B2B analytics startup used to spend 40% of engineering time on tenant isolation bugs — data leaks between customers, noisy neighbor issues, per-tenant backup failures.

After migrating to Nile, tenant isolation became automatic. Their data access layer went from 2,000 lines of custom middleware to 50 lines of standard Postgres queries. They shipped their next feature in 3 days instead of 3 weeks.

When to Use Nile

✅ Building multi-tenant SaaS (B2B, analytics, CRM, project management)
✅ Need per-tenant data isolation without complexity
✅ Want Postgres compatibility with serverless scaling
✅ Need tenant-aware auth and metrics out of the box

❌ Single-tenant apps (just use regular Postgres)
❌ Need specialized databases (graph, time-series)

Get Started

Head to thenile.dev and create your first tenant database in under 2 minutes.

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