SaturnSQL alternatives compared by price

PopSQL is a collaborative SQL editor that puts queries, charts, dashboards and schedules in one shared workspace. TigerData, formerly Timescale, bought it in April 2024, moved it to limited support in September 2025 and announced a shutdown for 1 September 2026, which it later postponed until further notice with a promise of at least 90 days warning.

PopSQL starts at $19 per editor per month for Premium (USD per editor per month, billed monthly), goes up to $36 per editor per month for Business, has a free plan.

TablePlus is a native desktop client for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server and a dozen other databases. It is sold as a one-time license per device rather than a subscription, which makes it the odd one out among team SQL tools.

TablePlus starts at $79 per seat, one-time, from 3 seats for Team (USD per license, paid once), goes up to $129 per license, one-time for Standard.

Metabase is the open source business intelligence tool that companies self-host for free and then move to the cloud plans. Those plans charge a flat base per instance with a handful of users included and a per-user fee above that.

Metabase starts at $100 per month for 5 users, then $6 per user for Starter (USD per month for the included users (5 on Starter, 10 on Pro), billed monthly), goes up to $575 per month for 10 users for Pro, has a free plan. Latest change: Pro from $500 to $575 (+15%), Apr 2026.

Hex is a collaborative notebook for data teams that mixes SQL, Python and no-code cells. It charges per editor and lets viewers in for free.

Hex Technologies starts at $36 per editor per month for Professional (USD per editor per month, billed monthly), goes up to $75 per editor per month for Team, has a free plan. Latest change: Professional from $24 to $36 (+50%), Aug 2023.