Best Database Testing Tools in 2026
Updated
In short: Great Expectations is ranked #1 of 26 as of 3 October 2026, ahead of Soda and DataKitchen TestGen. The best-ranked option with a free plan is Soda. The lowest first paid tier on this page is QuerySurge at $1.58/mo.
26 database testing tools ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.
| # | Platform | Score | Why | From | Free plan | Paid from | Database support | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Expectations | 8.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | AlloyDB, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Citus, Databricks SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Neon, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake, SQLite, Trino | View |
| 2 | Soda | 8.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $750/mo | Yes | 750 /mo | Athena, BigQuery, Databricks SQL, Dremio, DuckDB, Fabric, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Spark Dataframe, Snowflake, SQL Server, Synapse, Trino | View |
| 3 | DataKitchen TestGen | 8.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $100/mo | Yes | — | Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery, Microsoft OneLake (Microsoft Fabric), Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, Salesforce Data 360, SAP HANA, Snowflake | View |
| 4 | Bytebase Enterprise | 7.7 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $20/mo | No | — | — | View |
| 5 | Atlas | 7.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $9/mo | Yes | — | — | View |
| 6 | Liquibase | 7.5 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 7 |  DbFit | 7.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 8 |  pgTAP | 7.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | PostgreSQL | View |
| 9 |  utPLSQL | 6.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | Oracle Database 19c or newer | View |
| 10 | Datafold | 6.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | — | Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, Athena, Azure Synapse Analytics, BigQuery, Databricks, Dremio, Google Cloud Storage, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Netezza, Vertica, Oracle, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Redshift, SAP HANA, Starburst, Teradata, Trino | View |
| 11 | tSQLt | 6.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | Microsoft SQL Server | View |
| 12 | QuerySurge | 6.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $1.58/mo | No | — | Access, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Synapse, Btrieve, DB2, EnterpriseDB, Exasol, Greenplum, Impala, IMS, Informix, MariaDB, MySQL, Nonstop SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAP Business One, SAP HANA, SQL Server, SingleStore, Sybase, Sybase IQ, Teradata, xBase | View |
| 13 |  SQLancer | 6.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | Citus, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Databend, Apache DataFusion, Apache Doris, DuckDB, H2, Apache Hive, HSQLDB, MariaDB, Materialize, MySQL, OceanBase, PostgreSQL, Presto, QuestDB, Apache Spark, SQLite, TiDB, YugabyteDB | View |
| 14 | ContextQA Database Testing | 6.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | — | PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB | View |
| 15 |  Avidemux | 6.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 16 |  VALISOLUTION | 5.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | — | SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake | View |
| 17 | Database Rider | 5.7 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | — | View |
| 18 |  pgtestdb | 5.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | PostgreSQL | View |
| 19 |  Amazon Deequ | 5.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | — | View |
| 20 |  NBi | 5.5 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | OleDb-compatible databases; ODBC-compatible databases; ADOMD-compatible databases; SQL Server; MySQL; PostgreSQL; Mondrian; Neo4j; Gremlin-compatible databases; Azure Cosmos DB | View |
| 21 |  Percona pstress | 5.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | MySQL, Percona Server, Percona XtraDB Cluster | View |
| 22 |  mori | 5.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, DuckDB, Redis, Firestore | View |
| 23 | HammerDB | 5.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 24 | SQLFluff | 5.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 25 |  pgroll | 4.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | — | View |
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Questions about this list
Which database testing tool is ranked first on Inferse?
Great Expectations is ranked #1 of 26 with a score of 8.9. Soda is second and DataKitchen TestGen third.
How many of these have a free plan?
7 of the 25 on this page publish a free plan on their own pricing pages.
Which is the cheapest paid option?
On this page, QuerySurge has the lowest first paid tier we found: $1.58/mo.
How is this list ranked?
Ranked on what each maker publishes, open and connectable first: a public API, open-source code, the depth of its documentation and a free tier to try it on. Model lists are sorted by the figure in their title, exactly as each provider publishes it. Paid placements never change a rank.