Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Fauna
Fauna clearly comes out ahead of Azure Cosmos DB on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Both offer a free tier. Fauna's paid plans start at $150/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | saas tool | saas tool |
| Company | Fauna, Inc. | Microsoft |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentSaaS & Cloud | DevelopmentData & Analytics |
| Categories | devopsdatabase | database |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | fauna | azure-cosmos-db |
|---|---|---|
| Backup And Restore | ||
| 1,000 Ru/S Provisioned Throughput | ||
| Built-In Authorization | ||
| 25 Gb Storage | ||
| Community Support | ||
| Autoscale Provisioned Throughput | ||
| Core Fauna Capabilities | ||
| Lifetime Of One Azure Cosmos Db Account Per Azure Subscription | ||
| Custom Throughput Options | ||
| Pay For Compute (Ru/S Or Vcores), Storage, And Bandwidth | ||
| Enhanced Throughput | ||
| Serverless Throughput | ||
| Everything In Free | ||
| Standard Provisioned Throughput | ||
| Everything In Pro | ||
| Everything In Startup | ||
| Fauna Logs | ||
| Mfa | ||
| Multi-Tenant Capabilities | ||
| Premium Support | ||
| Private Endpoint Support | ||
| Sla Credits | ||
| Standard Support | ||
| Streams | ||
| Third-Party Authorization | ||
| Up To 100 Databases | ||
| Up To 15 Developers | ||
| Up To 5 Developers | ||
| Up To 500 Databases | ||
| Us And Eu Region Groups |
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On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Fauna comes out ahead overall, though Azure Cosmos DB can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Both Fauna and Azure Cosmos DB offer a free tier.
Azure Cosmos DB scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
