Head to head
MongoDB Atlas vs Amazon Cognito
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
51/100Higher score | 44/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #7 | #8 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 86 | 79 |
| AI Authority | 27 | 0 |
| Web Authority | 18 | 35 |
| Expert Assessment | 62 | 60 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published (vendor pricing page could not be retrieved this session); third parties cite Flex from roughly $8/month and dedicated M10 at roughly $0.08/hour (~$57/month) · free tier: M0 free cluster; third-party sources describe 512MB storage with shared RAM and vCPU. Capterra's provider listing records a free version but no free trial. | Lite: $0.0055 per MAU above the free tier (first band), $0.0046 per MAU next band — AWS example 950,000 MAUs = $4,405/month · free tier: 10,000 MAU/month per account or AWS Organization on Lite and Essentials (does not expire); 50 MAU/month for SAML 2.0/OIDC federated users on any tier; identity pools free of charge; no free tier on Plus, none for M2M token requests, and none in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions |
| Pricing model | Usage-based with tiered cluster sizes (free tier available) | Usage-based (pay-as-you-go per monthly active user, plus per-token and per-RPS add-ons) |
| Best for | Development teams with variable or document-shaped data who value developer velocity and multi-cloud freedom, and teams that want vector and full-text search in the same managed engine as their operational data. | Engineering teams already running on AWS that are building consumer or B2C applications with social/direct sign-in, either below 10,000 MAU (free) or above roughly 500,000 MAU on Lite, and with in-house capacity to wire up Lambda triggers, IAM, KMS and SNS/SES. |
| Avoid if | You are on a fixed budget with no FinOps oversight, are new to databases, are fully committed to one hyperscaler whose native service integrates better, or have genuinely relational, heavily transactional workloads better served by Postgres. | You sell B2B SaaS where every user arrives via a corporate SAML/OIDC IdP, need adaptive authentication on a small user base, provision an app client per tenant beyond 2,500, operate in GovCloud, have no AWS footprint or platform engineering capacity, or require a fixed predictable monthly invoice. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Startups, Developer teams | SMB, Enterprise, Startups, Consumer/B2C applications, Public sector (with GovCloud limitations) |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.