MongoDB Atlas
Shares rank 11 of 15 managed databases by recommenders
Recommended as a simple managed MongoDB host with responsive support, though critics often call it expensive.
Recommended as a simple managed MongoDB host with responsive support, though critics often call it expensive.
23 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 17
- approval share
- 26%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Simple, one-click setup
“Its as simple as it can be with way more functionality you can ever admin in yourself.”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner” “it has been quite a '1 click' solution for us”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
High and rising cost
“$3K/month seems like an extortion for that little data.”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner” “MongoDB Atlas was around 500% more expensive than in-house every time I evaluated it”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner” “MongoDB Atlas is a managed service with a corresponding price tag to match”
Comment from 14 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner” - Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner”
- Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner”
- Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner”
- Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner”
Limits on growth and sharding
“We moved away from atlas because they couldn’t cope with the data growth that we had”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner” “sharding is way more likely to make them more money with their licensing model”
Comment from 14 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner” “Atlas had also expensive limitations”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner” Opaque, surprising charges
“I was tired of dealing with charges that caught me off guard”
Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta” “And backup pricing is super opaque.”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner”
Other managed databases people recommend
The four most recommended other managed databases, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon RDS | 50 | 43 | 54% | 11 | — | — |
| Neon Postgres | 48 | 10 | 83% | 12 | — | Approved |
| DynamoDB | 46 | 31 | 60% | 11 | — | — |
| Cloudflare D1 | 36 | 30 | 55% | 10 | — | — |
| MongoDB AtlasThis page | 6 | 17 | 26% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
25 of the 26 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I was tired of dealing with charges that caught me off guard”
“caused entirely by MongoDB messing up SSL certificates on their end”
“That is a ridiculous default.”
“Our Atlas clusters were automatically patched before this was announced publicly.”
“sharding is way more likely to make them more money with their licensing model”
“MongoDB Atlas is a managed service with a corresponding price tag to match”
“I'm concerned about these rising costs”
“we saved 50% by moving from atlas to a three node cluster”
“We moved away from atlas because they couldn’t cope with the data growth that we had”
“You could cut your MongoDB costs by 100% by not using it”
“There's definitely MongoDB markup”
“Its as simple as it can be with way more functionality you can ever admin in yourself.”
“I experienced some cutthroat commercial behavior from MongoDB.”
“MongoDB Atlas was around 500% more expensive than in-house every time I evaluated it”
“it makes me wonder how much worth the SLA is. 10% Service Credit after all the limitations?”
“we were treated like first class citizens, the support was good”
“And backup pricing is super opaque.”
“it has been quite a '1 click' solution for us”
“I spend as much time debugging/building a cloud deployment (atlas :eyes: ) as I do a self-hosted solution.”
“the throughput is faster than doing a db dump from atlas which used to max around 30mbps”
“The new console is completely fine.”
“Atlas had also expensive limitations”
“$3K/month seems like an extortion for that little data.”
“MongoDB Atlas is so overpriced”
“Atlas wasn't giving us any support for $3K per month.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.