TETRA for Startups
The graph database that fits on your existing app servers.
A new graph database usually means a new cluster, new monitoring, new on-call rotation, a new $1,500/month line item—at a time when every CFO is asking where to cut. TETRA runs alongside your app. Same machine. 66 MB of RAM. $299/month flat.
$299
/month flat
66 MB
RAM
Zero
network latency
$45k+
saved (5-yr vs Neo4j Pro 16 GB)
Architecture
The infrastructure tier you don’t need
Traditional Graph DB
- × Dedicated cluster (3+ nodes for HA)
- × 4–16 GB RAM per instance
- × Network hop on every query
- × Separate monitoring, alerting, on-call
- × $1,000–$2,000+/month
TETRA
- ✓ 66 MB RAM — fits on your existing app server
- ✓ 24 MB Alpine container
- ✓ Bolt over localhost or in-process
- ✓ Same monitoring stack you already run
- ✓ $299/month flat
Throughput
Linear degradation, not cliff-edge failure
When load spikes, TETRA slows gracefully. Neo4j crashes.
| Clients | TETRA (q/s) | Neo4j (q/s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 391 | 90 |
| 8 | 471 | 29 |
| 32 | 468 | 54 |
| 64 | 485 | OOM crash |
Container benchmark, same hardware. Queries/second on mixed Cypher workload.
Total Cost of Ownership
TCO vs everyone
Five years of a graph database shouldn’t cost more than the engineer who uses it.
| Year | Neo4j Pro 16 GB | Neptune | TigerGraph | TETRA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $12,614 | $6,500+ | $8,640 | $3,588 |
| 3 | $37,843 | $19,500+ | $25,920 | $10,764 |
| 5 | $63,072 | $32,500+ | $43,200 | $17,940 |
Published pricing as of April 2026. Neptune assumes single db.r6g.large on-demand instance. TigerGraph assumes Savanna 4-vCPU compute-only.
Stop paying for infrastructure you don’t need.
Full Cypher. 30+ algorithms. 3D visualization. $299/month. No cluster required.