# PocketBase

> SQLite backend, auth, and admin UI in one Go binary

**Category:** Databases  
**Pricing:** open-source  
**URL:** https://pocketbase.io  
**GitHub:** https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase  
**Added:** 2026-09-03

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## The Hook

PocketBase is Firebase if Firebase were one file you scp to a $5 VPS.

## What's Good

MIT. Realtime, auth, file storage, and an admin UI from a single binary. Embed it as a Go library or run pocketbase serve. JS client talks REST. This is the backend you hand to a friend without a cloud bill.

## The Catch

SQLite is the database. Concurrent writes and multi-region are not the product. There is no official hosted PocketBase Cloud. You run the binary, you own backups, you own the disk filling up.

## Verdict

The one-binary BaaS. Perfect until you need Postgres.