Comparison
AddisDB vs TablePlus
The fastest, most native-feeling client here, sold once rather than rented. Deliberately minimal.
Engine breadth
How many database engines and data-file formats it can actually open.
TablePlus — Good
Around 20 of the engines people actually use — the major relational ones plus Redis, Mongo and a few cloud warehouses. Broad enough for most, narrow next to DBeaver.
AddisDB — Strong
95 engines and data-file formats, from Postgres and MySQL through Mongo, Redis, Cassandra and Neo4j to Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse and local CSV/Parquet/GeoJSON. Every engine is on every plan, including the free one.
Cost & openness
What it costs to use for real work, and whether you can read the source.
TablePlus — Good
The only genuinely perpetual licence in the table: $99 Basic, $129 Standard, $79/seat for teams of 3+. You keep the version you bought forever; a year of updates is included and renewal only buys newer releases. The free trial is limited to 2 tabs and 2 windows. Not open source.
AddisDB — Good
Free forever for databases on your own machine — the whole client, every engine, no account and no card. $49/year to reach databases that are not local; $99/user/year for teams; $299/user/year for SSO, audit log and RBAC. Source is not public.
Platform reach
Which operating systems and surfaces it runs on.
TablePlus — Strong
macOS, Windows, Linux — and iOS, which nothing else here offers. The macOS build in particular is the most native-feeling app in this comparison.
AddisDB — Strong
macOS, Windows and Linux as a native app, plus a CLI with a TUI and a VS Code extension that share the same core.
Production safety
What stands between you and the wrong statement on a production database.
TablePlus — Good
A read-only mode and a safe-mode prompt before committing changes. Lightweight by design — it asks you to confirm rather than analysing what the statement would do.
AddisDB — Strong
Connections can be marked read-only; statements are classified before they run, so an unqualified DELETE or a DROP is stopped rather than reported afterwards. A prod environment tag adds write guards, and row-count thresholds catch the statement that would hit more rows than you meant.
AI capability
What the AI does, what it costs, and where your schema and keys go.
TablePlus — None
No meaningful built-in AI. That is a positioning choice rather than an oversight: the product is about being fast and out of the way.
AddisDB — Strong
Plain-English to SQL, schema-aware, with the generated statement shown for you to edit before it runs. Bring your own provider key: it is stored in the OS credential store, calls go straight to your provider, and AI is included on the free tier because we are not the ones paying for the tokens.
Schema tooling
Diagrams, diffs, and getting a schema change from your laptop to production.
TablePlus — Limited
Competent schema editing and inline structure changes, but no ERD, no schema diff, and no migration review. Not what it is for.
AddisDB — Strong
ERD of tables and foreign keys, schema diff between databases, and a migration preview that shows the exact SQL plus the dangerous parts — dropped columns, rewrites, locks — before anything runs. Reads Drizzle Kit and Prisma changes too.
The scoreboard
TablePlus matches or beats AddisDB on: Cost & openness, Platform reach.
AddisDB comes out ahead on: Engine breadth, Production safety, AI capability, Schema tooling.
Which one to pick
Pick TablePlus if…
You want the fastest, most native app on this page, you prefer paying once to renting, or you need a client on iOS.
Pick AddisDB if…
You need ERDs, schema diffs, migration review or AI — TablePlus deliberately does not do those, and that is a fair trade for its speed.
About this comparison
Ratings and prices were checked against each vendor's own pages on 2026-08-11. We wrote this and we make one of the tools in it, so read it as what it is — and if something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.